For more information, see the attached poster and visit the following link:
To register, visit the following link:
https://coursestore.wlu.ca/catalog?pagename=DecolonizingEducation
Cold Regions Research Centre to co-host next meeting of the Canadian Society for Remote Sensing, in Yellowknife, NWT, July, 2020
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Dr. Pieter Aukes Guest Lecture Sept 20th @2pm Paul Martin Centre WLU
New book: “Eatenonha: Native Roots of Modern Democracy” By Georges E. Sioui
An exploration of the historical and future significance of Canada’s Native soul.
Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature. For many Native peoples and newcomers to North America, Canada is a motherland, an Eatenonha – a land in which all can and should feel included, valued, and celebrated.
In Eatenonha Georges Sioui presents the history of a group of Wendat known as the Seawi Clan and reveals the deepest, most honoured secrets possessed by his people, by all people who are Indigenous, and by those who understand and respect Indigenous ways of thinking and living. Providing a glimpse into the lives, ideology, and work of his family and ancestors, Sioui weaves a tale of the Wendat’s sparsely documented historical trajectory and his family’s experiences on a reserve. Through an original retelling of the Indigenous commercial and social networks that existed in the northeast before European contact, the author explains that the Wendat Confederacy was at the geopolitical centre of a commonwealth based on peace, trade, and reciprocity. This network, he argues, was a true democracy, where all beings of all natures were equally valued and respected and where women kept their place at the centre of their families and communities.
Identifying Canada’s first civilizations as the originators of modern democracy, Eatenonha represents a continuing quest to heal and educate all peoples through an Indigenous way of comprehending life and the world.
New graduate student positions at M.Sc and PhD levels
The Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost (DCoP) is seeking highly motivated individuals for PhD and MSc research projects to investigate permafrost thaw-induced changes to the Dehcho’s land and water.
The Dehcho region of the southern Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada, is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. Climate warming in the Dehcho has led to widespread permafrost thaw and land cover change that has disrupted the hydrological cycle and the ecosystems and human activities that depend on it. The patterns, rates, controls and mechanisms of permafrost thaw, and associated feedbacks and land cover transformations across the region remain poorly understood.
DCoP is co-led by the Dehcho First Nations (https://dehcho.org/) and the Scotty Creek Research Station (http://www.scottycreek.com/) and aims to generate a fusion of leading-edge scientific and Indigenous knowledge on permafrost, and to use it as a basis to co-develop new knowledge, predictive decision support tools and innovative risk management strategies to inventory and manage permafrost and adapt to permafrost thaw.
Specific graduate research projects will contribute to one or more of DCoP’s major objectives, including the development and mobilisation of new knowledge on permafrost thaw and thaw-induced changes, and the development and application of new, customised adaptive strategies and predictive modelling tools.
Location:
Research will be conducted at the Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Laurier is one of the fastest growing universities in Canada and is internationally-recognised for its expertise in cold regions research and education. The field research sites within the Dehcho will vary among the specific graduate student projects.
How to Apply:
For information on how to apply please contact Dr. William Quinton, Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada: wquinton@wlu.ca, 519-884-0710 (3281). Informal inquiries are always welcome.
New research paper on ice-dams and outburst floods in the Karakoram by CRRC co-founder, K. Hewitt
Dr. Brian Branfireun Guest Lecture March 11th @1:30pm Paul Martin Centre WLU
Senior Field Technician (EG-04) position in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
Deadline to apply: 11:59pm on Friday, March 1, 2019
https://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/jobsatpolar.html
EG-04-EnglishPoster (Application information)
Dr. David Olefeldt Guest Lecture Feb. 26 3:30pm @Paul Martin Centre WLU
Impacts of wildfire and permafrost thaw on carbon cycling in peatland-rich catchments in boreal western Canada.
Abstract:
Northern peatlands store globally significant amounts of soil carbon, and are located in regions undergoing the most rapid climate change. Two disturbances that are likely to strongly influence the future greenhouse gas exchange of northern peatlands are permafrost thaw and wildfire. Both of these disturbances are common and likely increasing in occurrence in the western boreal forest. Here I will give examples from recent and ongoing research on effects and interactions of wildfire and permafrost thaw on carbon cycling from peatland complexes along a latitudinal gradient from continuous to sporadic permafrost along the Mackenzie valley in western Canada. The studies focus on both peat plateaus, thermokarst bogs and thermokarst ponds, and has found both settings where the carbon storage is inert and vulnerable to future climate change. Our research focuses both on the greenhouse gas exchange of these ecosystems and their downstream export of dissolved organic matter.
Feb26 3:30 PMC WLU
Canadian Masters position at Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Miguel Sioui is looking to recruit an MA student to start in fall 2019. He is interested in developing a master’s project on any of the following topics: Indigenous knowledge/traditional ecological knowledge and how it can enhance mainstream environmental management and planning; Indigenous environmental philosophies of the Americas and the impact of environmental change on land-based Indigenous groups; the impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous land use and livelihoods.
