New paper examining the potential effects of coal-mine development on water quality in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
Research published in Science of the Total Environment explores potential outcomes of development of coal mines in the Oldman River Basin of southwest Alberta on selenium concentrations in receiving environments…
COVID-19, Indigenous Communities, Health Sovereignty, and Working Together for a Change
Two exciting opportunities we would like to share include: 1) Digital Health Initiative The Digital Health Initiative was developed by Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin. The initiative aims to improve access to and…
New paper on cumulative effects of disturbance to bird populations
A paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution presents a modeling study exploring long-term bird population responses in northeastern Alberta (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00252/full). IEG ecologist Matt Carlson, one of the paper’s…
Integration is Needed!
According to a report by the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on integrated natural resource management (INRM), conventional methods of natural resource management haven’t kept pace with the…
Getting My Hands Dirty- Restoration Volunteering
A few weeks ago, I was walking my dog along the rugged Victoria shoreline when I saw some City of Victoria employees working on an eroded slope just up from…
Exploring Indigenous land change issues in Taiwan
In January, we travelled to Taiwan to share about some of the research approaches and tools, such as ALCES, that we use in our work with Indigenous communities in Canada…
ckwalkwalúls
In honour of Secwepemc elder Mary Thomas A recent announcement of the release of Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany, caused me to reflect on the laughter…
New Years Rulin’s
Out with the old and in with the new, they say. Which seems a poor model for science and for wisdom, as presumably we need to learn from some of…
Can Technology Improve The Way We Communicate Science?
When I was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, I became interested in exploring ways of communicating science to a wide audience. Scientific information shouldn’t be exclusive…
I Just Came Back From Maui
In June I was on Maui, where I was working with ALCES and Sam Aruch. On my trip, and in reflecting since my return, I was struck by the obvious…
