IASNR Canada conference attendees (minus John Parkins, organizer, who is taking the picture)
It was great spending the end of last week at the IASNR Canada Hub meeting in lovely Camrose, Alberta, organized by my long-time collaborator John Parkins, who is Dean of the Augustana Campus of the University Alberta. It was our first opportunity to meet formally as an IASNR Hub, before the main IASNR meeting in Oregon. It was lovely to be bombing around the township and range grid of Alberta after a few decades, with green fields and happy livestock thanks to recent rains. I ran a workshop on social science data infrastructure and policy, and presented on new results about climax thinking. The field trips to the Hesje Observatory in lovely Miquelon Lake Provincial Park and to the Driedmeat Lake reservoir and catchment were memorable (and not only for the very late night and the mosquitoes, respectively). The rest of this post is just photos, because I don’t have a lot of time to post today.
Fieldtripping
At the observatory
Requiem for a town
Alberta energy landscape
Rail at golden hour
Finally, I was also really happy to have been able to see some of our Bay of Fundy research sites enroute to Alberta, thanks to clear conditions.
The Belcher Street managed dyke realignment
The Avon River causeway
Grand Pre and Cape Blomidon
