
TranSECT co-leads: Ian Stewart (Kings/Dal), Melanie Lemire (Laval), me, Fanny Noisette (UQAR) and Project Manager Line Bourdages (L-R).
After ResNet I went straight to Quebec City for a meeting of TranSECT and the wider Transforming Climate Action projects. It was wonderful to spend more time with our TranSECT colleagues in particular, and start tackling some of our shared research objectives together over the Monday and Tuesday. We worked hard and had some social time also, at the Temps Perdu bar near the Universite Laval campus. Ian and I invited our incoming PhD student Christopher Randall and our incoming PDF Jessica Beaudette, who joined us before their actual start dates to get a good sense of the community they are joining. And what a community it is! I especially enjoyed our discussions of risk assessment and governance, and of dykelands and nature-based solutions of various kinds. The generative scribing of Deline from Agora supported all some sessions, and can be seen in some of these pictures. We made particular progress on plans for some related workshops and events over the coming year, bringing together Nova Scotia and Quebec parts of the TranSECT team. It was also wonderful to see students and postdocs networking and starting to build a cohort feeling. This was supported by the shared bus trip home to Halifax on Friday.