Landscapes - People - Global change

Month: October 2024

Vancouver and Ghent

The view from SFU Harbourfront

Tom, Jackie and Elson and I form team People Power

I’m recently returned from back-to-back trips to Vancouver and Belgium, to attend project meetings. One project, NSERC ResNet, is nearing its end and some of the ResNet team went to Vancouver to work with the wonderful Liz Neely and Ambika Kamath of Liminal on key messages coming out of the project. Thanks to Anne Salomon and Wendy Palen for hosting us at Simon Fraser University’s lovely Harbourfront campus.

Danika and I hanging out at monastery Het Rustpunt, in Ghent, for REWRITE

A red-eye back home was followed by another red-eye the next day to Belgium, for the first annual meeting of the EU Horizon REWRITE project. This project is designed to explore rewilding and restoration as a nature-based solutions in soft sediment intertidal zones. The Bay of Fundy coast around the Chignecto Isthmus is one of the two non-EU demonstrator sites in REWRITE, which led to my appointment to the project’s Stakeholder Steering Committee, and the invitation to Ghent. That also meant I got to hang out for a few days in Europe with my SMU and TransCoastal colleague Danika van Proosdij! In addition to the stimulating and long hours full of planning and discussion, I enjoyed engaging with my fellow Advisory Board/SSC members, and strolling the stunning town of Ghent.

Historic Ghent, by night, with kayakers

Landscapes on the Edge

Evan Andrews of MUN introduced my CAG keynote in August, 2024

A quick note to say that the text of my keynote to the 2024 Canadian Association of Geographer’s conference has now been published by Canadian Geographies. The keynote was called Landscapes on the Edge, and I enjoyed the opportunity to reflect on a diversity of my empirical and theoretical work in coastal adaptation and renewable energy over the past few years–with wonderful Honours, Masters and PhD students–and place them within my own lived experience as a pulp town brat. I was so pleased to be asked to convert it to a paper so it can have a life of its own. Thanks to Canadian Geographies Editor Agnieszka Leszczynski for the encouragement.

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