MC Peter Duinker speechifies at the SRES 50th party at Pacifico, Sep 19, 2024.
Last week was a big one in SRES. We celebrated (a year late) our 50th birthday with a big party at the Pacifico dance club in downtown Halifax. At least150 members of the SRES community attended: students, alumni, adjuncts, staff and faculty. It was amazing to see students reconnecting with peers, networking across cohorts, and to catch up with a few important research partners (CBWES, EAC) and a few of my own MES students, such as Simon Greenland-Smith and Samantha Howard. Thanks so much to the Faculty of Science and Strum Consulting (which was well-represented!) for sponsoring the party.
Last week was also a big week because of a few other events, so a quick thank you here to MREM alum Sian Borden and her boss Barret Kurylyk for asking me to be a panelist at a groundwater symposium he led on the morning of the birthday party, as well as Richard Howarth for the invitation to present to the Acadia Lifelong Learning lunchtime learning series the day after. These were both welcome opportunities to tell the story of our work in ResNet’s Landscape 1, focusing on the Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands, as that grant comes to its close next year. The week finished with the traditional event on the Northwest Arm where the yachties celebrate the last weekend of the summer sailing season by parading lit-up boats and the various boat clubs (and others) they pass setting off fireworks.
The Arm late Saturday night, with boats on parade to celebrate the end of summer.
