Date & time
Monday, March 15, 2021
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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Current topics in sustainability science
Speaker(s)
Julia Bonaventura, Kai Bruce, Margo Burgess-Pollet, Emily Colins, Vincenzo Corelli, Tania Couture, Alexandria Farrell-Coulas, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Alexa Mantifel, Lana Mutassem, Rain Noakes, Nicholas Pfeiffer-Major, Yann Quash, Michael Jairus Rolheiser, Kayden Schwartz, Alessandra Szilagyi, Naomi Trott, Avery Tyrell, and Alice Yue
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
Online
Current Topics in Sustainability session
This interdisciplinary session features a series of three-minute presentations from Concordia graduate students investigating various current topics in sustainability science from a variety of environmental science and environmental studies perspectives. Students in HENV 680 (Advanced Seminar in Environmental Science) will reflect on topics ranging from the role of Indigenous knowledge in food sustainability and the potential use of fungi in the bioremediation of plastic to the potential use of bioluminescent microorganisms in sustainable lighting, the sustainable management and conservation of forests, coral reefs, aquatic systems, and much more.
Speakers and titles:
Alessandra Szilagyi: Hydrocarbon contamination remediation in Northern Canada
Alexa Mantifel: Key benefits of community-based watershed management: An example from Muskrat Lake, Ontario
Alexandria Farrell-Coulas: Identifying challenges for climate resilient health systems among small island developing states
Alice Yue: Finding sustainability in the Canadian housing crisis
Avery Tyrell: The Issues with wetland "No-net-loss"
Brian C. Armstrong: The importance of small-scale subsistence fisheries
Emily Colins: Non-invasive surveying of gorilla and chimpanzee populations in Campo Ma'an National Park, Southern Cameroon
Julia Bonaventura: Review of the potential of fungi in the bioremediation of plastic
Kai Bruce: Pluralistic sustainability in Canada?
Kayden Schwartz: Why we need to rethink forest management
Lana Mutassem: The COVID-19, plastic pandemic
Margo Burgess-Pollet: Noise pollution, marine mammals, and project development: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Michael Jairus Rolheiser: Can we make the death care industry more sustainable?
Naomi Trott: Role of Indigenous knowledge for food sustainability
Nicholas Pfeiffer-Major: Harnessing the power of bioluminescent microorganisms as a source of sustainable lighting
Rain Noakes: Parks Canada's dual mandate is potentially compromising the ecological integrity of Canada's protected areas.
Tania Couture: Sustainable river management – freedom space for rivers
Vincenzo Corelli: Integrating climate change into marine protected areas' management plans.
Yann Quash: Sustainability of coral reefs in the Anthropocene: Threats and opportunities
Yisa Ginath Yuh: Building a decision support tool for forest and biodiversity conservation in the Congo Basin
This webinar is organized in collaboration with Professor Sarah Turner.
This event is part of:
Sustainability and the Climate Crisis: A week of discussion
Sustainability and the Climate Crisis: A Week of Discussion is hosted by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability and the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre in collaboration with 4th Space and with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; the Faculty of Arts and Science; the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities; the John Molson School of Business; and the Departments of Biology; Communication Studies; Economics; Geography, Planning and Environment; Management; and Political Science at Concordia University. Learn more about this week-long discussion series on Sustainabilty and the Climate Crisis here.