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
