Montréal-based artist Lisa Kimberly Glickman has started a new series called Voices for the Wild, which honours female land defenders and environmentalists from across Canada. Lisa’s work highlights poets, artists, scientists, activists, and others and poses each of the women with animals from the impacted area in the landscapes they are trying to protect. Alana’sContinue reading “Dr. Alana Westwood featured in artist Kimberly Glickman’s Voices for the Wild project”
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Dal professors and researchers make key recommendations to reform environmental assessment in Nova Scotia
Several weeks ago, Nova Scotia’s Department of Environment and Climate Change offered Nova Scotians the opportunity to weigh in on their commitment to modernize the environmental assessment (EA) process as defined in the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act. Some of Dalhousie’s leading experts in the area, including Dr. Alana Westwood, Ali MacKellar, BenContinue reading “Dal professors and researchers make key recommendations to reform environmental assessment in Nova Scotia “
Congratulations on graduating, Riley Scanlan!
Riley Scanlan is graduating from Dalhousie with a Master of Environmental Studies from the School for Resource and Environment Studies, in the Faculty of Science. Riley’s research focused on boreal forests in Unama’ki (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia), developing a novel, user-friendly approach to assess data quality and prioritizing areas for treeplanting to restore connectivity inContinue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Riley Scanlan!”
Welcome to our new research coordinator, Revant Sharan
Congratulations to our new research coordinator, Revant Sharan. Revant is recent MREM grad who will be coordinating research on Maximizing Positive Outcomes for Biodiversity, Recreation and Carbon Market Valuation, through Nova Scotia’s transition to Ecological Forestry funded by the Forestry Innovation Transition Trust (FITT) grant (awarded to PI, Dr. Alana Westwood and co-applicants in May 2023). Continue reading “Welcome to our new research coordinator, Revant Sharan”
Battling Canadian wildfires in Nova Scotia: Preparing for the next bout
Photo from: Saltwire (2023) Starting on May 27, Nova Scotia experienced unprecedented wildfires starting in Tantallon, NS that spread over 230 square kilometers. Thousands of individuals residing in the affected areas were forced to evacuate from their homes. No human lives were reported lost, but the impacts were devastating. Experts say we are far fromContinue reading “Battling Canadian wildfires in Nova Scotia: Preparing for the next bout”
Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab
Congratulations are in order for lab member, Riley Scanlan for winning a presenter award for her paper presentation at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in May 2023. Awesome job, Riley! Incoming MES Student, Samantha Chu also earned a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship for her thesis proposal investigating the knowledge exchange preferencesContinue reading “Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab “
Get with the times: old laws can’t keep up with Nova Scotia’s new gold rush
An increase in mine staking in the province needs to be met with a rigorous environmental assessment process — not the tight timelines, loopholes and lax consultation requirements of the past. Read the full article by Alana Westwood on The Narwhal. Nova Scotia has had three gold rushes since colonization: one in the 1800s, one atContinue reading “Get with the times: old laws can’t keep up with Nova Scotia’s new gold rush”
Well Wishes for Westwood Lab Graduates
Congratulations to Sasha Mines and Geneva Bahen! Sasha Mines is graduating from Dalhousie with a Bachelor Arts, Combined Honours in Environment, Sustainability and Society & Law, Justice and Society. She minored in French and earned a certificate in Indigenous studies. Her undergraduate honour’s thesis offers an examination of Nova Scotia’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) to provide valuableContinue reading “Well Wishes for Westwood Lab Graduates”
Nova Scotia is moving to a new forestry model — Dal researchers explore the consequences
Covering around 75 per cent of the province, Nova Scotia’s forests both define its landscape and support a key industry – an industry that is looking to the future with the help of Dal researchers. A Dal-led research team was recently awarded $1.6 million to explore the future of forestry in Nova Scotia. The studyContinue reading “Nova Scotia is moving to a new forestry model — Dal researchers explore the consequences”
Westwood Lab and partners publish paper on Indigenous knowledge about tǫdzı (boreal caribou): Part 1
Congratulations to Jackie Saturno, former lab Research Associate, on this lead author publication setting a foundation for how Indigenous knowledge about tǫdzı (one of the Dene words for boreal caribou) can be used to better guide conservation planning. The paper brings together a diverse team from across government departments and agencies along with the invaluableContinue reading “Westwood Lab and partners publish paper on Indigenous knowledge about tǫdzı (boreal caribou): Part 1”
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