Sustainability Across Disciplines conference

9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

• Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques and Alex Pace: Long-term trends and low-frequency variability of river flows in the North American West

10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Panel IA: The Importance of Place in Sustainability

• Monica Mulrennan: Sea Space as Home Place: Indigenous Womens’ Perspectives on Sustainability
• Cheryl Gladu: Cooperative Co-Housing and Sustainability
• James W. A. Grant: Territories and Local Communities: the Secret to Cooperation and Sustainability?

Panel IB: Where can a sustainability internship lead you?

• Kayla Miller: City Farm School Internship: Permaculture and Policy

11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Panel II: Reconciling the Three Pillars of Sustainability

• Cynthia Fozin-Kengni, Cléa Montanari, Eric Warner, and Margaret Webb: Plan Nord or Plan Mort?
• Chris Aitkens: The Environmental Impact of a Smartphone

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Panel IIIA: Potential Solutions to Problems of Sustainability

• Ashlee Prevost, Nicole Hill, James W.A Grant, William R. Ardren, and Dylan J. Fraser: Reproductive Success of Landlocked Atlantic Salmon in Two Lake Champlain Tributaries
• Matthew C. Yates and Dylan J. Fraser: Experimentally Replicated Population Translocations Reveal the Relative Importance of Habitat and Genetic Risks to Novel Change in a Vertebrate
• Melissa Robertson, Zara Pardiak, Kailin Mailly, and Nicolas Chevalier: Sustainability and the Olympics
• Karina Akulovich, Juliette Carman, Asia McDowall, Mattea Mahut, and Brenna Beith de Montbrun: Ski Resorts and Sustainability: The Case of Mont Tremblant

Panel IIIB: Where Can a Sustainability Internship Lead You?

• Alexey Malyshev: DIY Sustainability: At Home Vermicomposting & Microgreens

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Panel IVA: The Politics and Industrial Implications of Sustainability

• Isabelle Jolin and Shannon Lloyd: Benchmarking Canadian Airports on Environmental Performance: A New and Improved Sustainability Ranking Index
• Matthias Heppa, Shannon Lloyd, and Onur Kuzgunkaya: Economic and Ecologic Impacts of Industry 4.0: A Case Study Exploring Supply Chain Configurations with Distributed Production Capabilities in the Aerospace Sector
• Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Eftichios Sartzetakis, and Stefania Strantza: International Environmental Agreements - Stability with Transfers among Countries
• Karolyn Martin: Ethical Textile Design: Towards a Montreal Portrait

Panel IVB: Where Can a Sustainability Internship Lead You?

• Zara Pardiak: Sustainability and Food
• Gabby Bruser: Resilience and Environmental Sustainability in Uganda

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Panel V: Landscape Ecology Perspectives on Sustainability

• Ariel Spanowicz, Fernanda Zimmermann Teixeira, and Jochen A.G. Jaeger: Mitigating Roadkill: A Multi-scale Analysis about Wildlife Fencing
• Benjamin Brunen, Caroline Daguet, and Jochen A.G. Jaeger: Analyzing the Effects of a High-Traffic Highway on Wildlife Movement in Proposed Wildlife Corridors
• Jonathan Cole and Jochen A. G. Jaeger: Past, Present and Future Land-use in the Adirondack - Laurentians Ecological Corridor: Identifying Risk Areas for Loss of Connectivity due to Roads and Development and Proposing Proactive Mitigation Measures
• Mehrdokht Pourali and Jochen A. G. Jaeger: Multi-scale Analysis of Urban Sprawl in Canada since 1971

9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Panel VI: The Politics of Sustainability

• Maura Martinez: Mining in the Dominican Republic
• Thibaud Henin: Standards as Strategies: Using Sustainable Forestry Standards as a Non-Tariff Barrier
• Leif Schenstead-Harris: Sustainability at the Arctic Council: The Curious Case of the Sustainable Development Working Group

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Round-Table Discussion I: What, if Anything, is Sustainability?

• Matthias Fritsch, Cheryl Gladu, James W.A Grant, Pedro Peres-Neto, and Amy Poteete

1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Panel VII: The Role of Innovation in Sustainability

• Hami Yousefdehi: System Innovation vs Innovation Systems in Sustainability Transition Pathways
• Mark Underwood: Social Innovation and Sustainability
• Cameron Stiff: Outside the Classroom, Outside the Box: Innovating Learning for Sustainability

2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Round-Table Discussion II: How to Build a Career in Sustainability

• Maude Lecourt, Colleen Thorpe, Andrew Ross, Jamie Nicholls, and Chantal Forgues

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Closing keynote address

• Kamal Bawa: Institutions of Sustainability Science: Lessons from ATREE, India

5:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

Student awards ceremony and closing

In person on the Loyola Campus in the Science Hub building (HU).

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• "Biodiversity Fresque" with Emma Despland, in HU 115 conference room 

9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

• "Undergraduate honours research for a healthy planet: Cities, spaces, places, and landscapes," in HU-115

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• "Issues in biodiversity and planetary health," with Jochen Jaeger, Noa Davidai, Arielle Limoges, Isabel Drummond, and Lisa Ofili, in HU-115

12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• Lunch in HU-115

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• "Working across complexity: Creative approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability," with Heather McLaughlin and Annabelle Brault, in HU-115

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

• "Issues in well-being and justice," with Dalia Assi, Andrée Tremblay, Catherine Rokakis, Audrey Basic, and Sofia Ithaca Bandel, in HU-125

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• "Sustainable peer-based leisure activity: Drawing insight from Traumatic Brain Injury Health," with Shawn Wilkinson, Elizabeth Teel, Enrico Quilico, Pascal Brodeur, and Eric Tessier, in HU-125