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ResNet doco premiere at BOFEP

May 27, 2026 /

Panelists and ResNet alum at the BOFEP/ACCESS event May 20, Sackville, NB

After seven years, dozens of graduate students and rich interdisciplinary and intersectoral engagement, NSERC ResNet winds up next month. In ‘landscape 1’ (L1), the Bay of Fundy dykeland and tidal wetland case study, we are seeing it off in style. Thanks to the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BOFEP) and the Atlantic Canada Coastal & Estuarine Science Society (ACCESS) for letting us premiere our new L1 documentary about the changing Bay of Fundy coast during their town hall event. It looked great on the big screen – kudos to director Mark Wyatt and PI/producer Elena Bennett. A great panel with Danika van Proosdij, Brittany Roughan, Alex Legault and Elson Galang followed the screening, reflecting on the project and its takeaways. The audience had some great engagement, and headed away with some of our limited edition ResNet swag. Lovely to see some program alumna there, too. The next screening will be at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville on June 1. There are still a few tickets available.

End-of-ResNet Events

April 24, 2026 /

ResNet is coming to an end in June 2026! We have trained over 35 students and postdoctoral fellows over the ~6 years of the project. Moreover, the Bay of Fundy dykeland case study (‘Landscape 1’) contributed to training folks from other universities such as McGill and Brock who were working in the cross-cutting Theme work packages. Landscape 1, in turn, learned more about ourselves from being studied as part of a larger landscape of natural resource decision contexts in Canada. When we wrote our ‘baseline’ paper about ecosystem services and decision-making in the Bay of Fundy dykeland context the literature was pretty sparse: we have added significantly to that (including with this synthesis) and many things are still in review.

Two events are happening in May and June to celebrate our wrap-up. Landscape 1 is one of the three case studies that ResNet PI Elena Bennett chose to highlight with a short documentary. She travelled here with the filmmaker Mark Wyatt last June to do interviews and shoot footage and her team has been working on it since then. It is now ready to show!

We will be showing the film, along with a panel-based discussion, in two free events and we welcome your attendance:

  • First will be on May 20th (7-8 PM) in the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership meeting (with ACCESS) at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. This is the public forum part of the conference, which brings in people from the community, and so is free to attend. You can find details of the meeting here.
  • The second will be on June 1st  (7-8:30 PM) at the Apple Blossom Festival! We have rented out the Al Whittle Theatre on Wolfville’s main drag to show the film as part of the festival. Tickets are free and you can get them here.

We have a little thank you gift for all attendees, and will be asking for (optional) feedback at both events, too, to help us understand the value of the documentary.

 

ResNet synthesis video filming

July 18, 2025 /

The dyke at the Wolfville Waterfront Park on Tuesday, with filming crew trying to stay out of the wind.

It has been an unusually hot week in Nova Scotia. Kudos to filmmaker Mark Wyatt, ResNet central team folks Elena Bennett (PI) and Morgan Jackson, and Ive Velikova from TransCoastal Adaptations at SMU for braving the conditions as they’ve been filming the Landscape 1 synthesis video around the Bay of Fundy dykeland system. My bits were filmed on Tuesday at the lovely Wolfville Waterfront Park. We had to film down on the foreshore to stay out of the wind. Heat notwithstanding, it was a lovely few hours alongside the marsh. Lots of human users–walkers on the dyke and fishers on the marsh–and birds such as goldfinches and a very patient bald eagle. I look so forward to seeing the finished product!

The filming team, sweltering.

Panel role on ocean and coastal research at Dal

April 21, 2023 /
Four scholars in a panel set up in front of Dalhousie banners.

Getting things going at the ODL event on April 20, 2023

Last night I joined Drs Anya Waite, Mike Smit and Will Burt (of Planetary) on an Open Dialogue Live session run by Dalhousie about Accelerating Ocean Research. Inspired by the university’s CFREF proposal Transforming Climate Action, we covered the wide range of oceans research being done at Dalhousie, and the kind of rich collaborations across disciplines that will be necessary to bring oceans and coasts into the climate change solution. The event was live-streamed on YouTube and is still available there for watching. I was glad to have a chance to mention the need for ‘electoral will’ to support the political will necessary to make difficult decisions in the face of big challenges, referencing the disappointing recent decision to send the long-awaited Coastal Protection Act back to ‘public consultation’ rather than forward to regulatory development. Thanks to my co-panelists for a fun and sometimes surprising evening.

OpenThink

March 15, 2023 /

IDPhD student Keahna Margeson

Keahna Margeson has been named one of Dalhousie’s next crop of thought leaders in the OpenThink program at our Faculty of Graduate Studies. These PhD students get trained in communication and data visualization skills, and develop blog posts through the year to practice those skills. Keahna’s first blog post is now up, about putting a round peg (natural science) in a square hole (say, coastal planning): it fits, but there’s gaps around the edge. She pitches social science as critical to fill the hole properly.  Follow her on Twitter and you can stay tuned on the rest of her posts.

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