Summer/Fall 2018 SES Research Group News
It’s been an exciting, and busy few months in SES Research Group! Here are a few highlights.
Student accomplishments
Kasmira Cockerill successfully defended her MSc thesis (Honours) entitled: The Politics of Collaborative Governance: Community-Based Conservation in Northern Kenya. Congrats Kasmira!
Ricardo Pelai successfully completed his MSc thesis proposal and is now embarking on his field work on governing risks of assisted migration in BC’s forests. Congrats on being at this stage of your program Ricardo!
Hello/Farewell (but, not goodbye!)
We are excited to welcome new PhD student Sarah Dickson-Hoyle to the SES research group! Sarah completed her MSc at the University of Melbourne. She is the recipient of the 2018 Future Forests Fellowship. Learn more about Sarah HERE.
No stranger to the SES-group (having worked with us as an RA during his PhD program), we are delighted that Dr. Guillaume Peterson-St. Laurent has come on board as a Postdoctoral fellow. Guillaume will continue his work at the nexus of climate change adaptation and mitigation for natural resources management and decision-making. Find out more about Guillaume’s research HERE.
Farewell to MSc grad Kasmira Cockerill, and to Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Wim Carton (moving on to a Faculty position at LUCSUS—Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies).
Knowledge mobilization (highlights)
Shannon presented highlights of the CoAdapTree GE3LS research approach and results thus far to the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on the Potential for Biotechnology to Address Forest Health. Presentation SLIDES and video available HERE.
Kieran Findlater presented his research on stakeholder perceptions of risk and uncertainty in climate adaptive forestry at the Society for Risk Analysis—Europe, held in Sweden.
With Kieran in Sweden, the remainder of the CoAdaptree GE3LS team (Shannon, Rob, Guillaume, Ricardo Pelai and Ngaio Hotte) each presented at an organized session on Values and Governance Complexities of Novel Interventions for Forest Management at the International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources(Utah) (and—with friend and colleague, Howie Harshaw (UofA)—managed to squeeze a trip up the mountain to take in the views, photo Ngaoi Hotte).
Kasmira Cockerill presented her research on historical insights into the emergence of community-based conservation in Kenya, at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB)—and won best student presentation!
