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Congratulations Dr. Margeson!

Keahna Margeson’s hybrid examining committee

Absolutely delighted to introduce Dr. Keahna Margeson, after a stellar defense of her Interdisciplinary PhD dissertation, Using Comparative Social Impact Assessment to Understand Resistance and Support for Causeway Removal and Tidal River Restoration . Defenses aren’t recorded, but if it had been, it would have been a great training tool. Thanks to Dr. Guadalupe Ortiz Noguera for serving as such an insightful external reviewer,  and to Wenda Greer, Helena Martel, and Peter Tyedmers for chairing, organizing and repping the IDPhD (and photography), respectively. Massive gratitude to Keahna, her committee and co-supervisor for a wonderful 4.5-year collaboration. Thanks to so many of the lab for coming along to support Keahna, and especially Elson for bringing the party. The occasion has made the whole week shine.

The defense audience (after we put the bubbly stuff out of view)

Alex and Keahna at BoFEP

It’s summer conference season, and two team members have just been to St. Andrews, NB, for the joint Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership/ACCESS conference. Keahna had the opportunity to present early survey results from her Petitcodiac causeway survey, and talk about the larger study of which it is a part. Alex talked about the qualitative data analysis he led from our recent survey of apartment residents around the Minas Basin to understand their perceptions of coastal adaptation options like raising dykes, removing them to restore tidal wetlands and managed dyke realignment. He got a runner-up award for his poster. Conferences like BoFEP that are focused on a landscape/seascape, rather than field of study, are wonderful opportunities for engaging across disciplines.

Keahna presented preliminary results from the Petitcodiac case of her IDPhD research.

Ever busy, Alex presented two posters at the same time, one on his work with ResNet and one on his upcoming MI thesis work.

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