LIVING LAKES CANADA - Key Persons
Allan Casey is a journalist and author who writes about lakes and water issues. His book Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country won the 2010 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. A mix of ecology, travel, memoir and natural history, Lakeland explores the role of lakes in the lives of people in Canada, whose country is home to over sixty percent of the world's lakes. His environmental reporting on water has earned many awards, including a 2011 National Magazine Award for a story on the future of the South Saskatchewan River. He received the inaugural Science Journalism Award from the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for a story about the challenges facing Lake Winnipeg. A regular contributor to Canadian Geographic magazine, he has received expedition research grant support from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
When he is not writing about lakes and rivers, he is out on the water. Allan is a boat builder, life-long paddler and lake sailor. He lives in Saskatoon, and feels most at home in the lake country of Northern Saskatchewan.
Andy brings a career in project management and operations to the Deputy Director role at Living Lakes Canada. Born and raised in the UK, he arrived in Canada, then to the East Kootenay, after working across England, Scandinavia, and Spain. He brings more than 30 years of experience in working with, developing and supervising multiple teams, and planning and executing organizational demands across a variety of industries: manufacturing, engineering, transportation, tourism, communications and marketing, retail and, most recently, the environmental nonprofit sector.
Situated between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains, and close to the headwaters of the Columbia River, Andy now calls Kimberley B.C. home. He is passionate about contributing his business skillset to meet today's water stewardship challenges.
Antonio Barroso has a BSc in Civil Engineering (focus on hydrology) and a MSc in Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management from the University of San Francisco Xavier, in Sucre, Bolivia. He also has a second master's in Hydrogeology (focus on groundwater modeling) from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His second MSc consisted of development of a groundwater flow model to assess surface groundwater interaction at Brannen Lake, Nanaimo, BC. The investigation was based on a long-term, multi-well pumping test carried out at the site by GW Solutions.
He has over 16 years of combined experience with a focus on hydrology for the first three years of his career and on hydrogeology in the past thirteen years.
Antonio combines expert knowledge of hydrogeology with a creativity in building tools and code so that complex information can be accessed, searched, interpreted and visualized. Antonio continues to create innovative Tableau tools that combine expert analysis and presentation of complex datasets measuring water quality, levels, stream flow and climate variables.
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- Chairman in Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water
Bob Sandford holds the Global Water Futures Chair in Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. In this capacity Bob was the co-author of the UN Water in the World We Want report on post-2015 global sustainable development goals relating to water. He is also lead author of Canada in the Global World, a new United Nations expert report examining the capacity of Canada's water sector to meet and help others meet the United Nations 2030 Transforming Our World water-related Sustainable Development Goals.
In his work Bob is committed to translating scientific research outcomes into language decision-makers can use to craft timely and meaningful public policy and to bringing international example to bear on local water issues. To this end, Bob is also senior advisor on water issues for the Interaction Council, a global public policy forum composed of more than thirty former Heads of State including Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, U.S. President Bill Clinton and the former Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Brundtland. Bob is also a Fellow of the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan and a Fellow of the Biogeoscience Institute at the University of Calgary. He is also a member of Canada's Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW), a national water policy research group centred in Toronto.
Bob is also the author, co-author or editor of more than thirty books including Cold Matters: The State & Fate of Canada's Snow and Ice; Saving Lake Winnipeg; Flood Forecast: Climate Risk & Resilience in Canada; and The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer. Storm Warning: Water & Climate Security in a Changing Canada and The Climate Nexus: Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity, which he co-authored with former Deputy Minister of Environment Jon O'Riordan. The Columbia Icefield and North America in the Anthropocene, The Hard Work of Hope: Climate Change in the Trump Era, co-authored again with Jon O'Riordan. Our Vanishing Glaciers:The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West recently won the prestigious $10,000 Lane Anderson Award for the best science writing in Canada in 2017. Recent titles include Quenching the Dragon: The China-Canada Water Crisis, Rain Comin' Down and The Anthropocene Disruption.
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- Water Monitoring Technician
Braeden grew up in North Vancouver, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains of British Columbia where he spent his youth hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and fishing. Braeden attended the University of Illinois at Chicago where he completed his B.Sc. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, followed by a M.Sc. in Biological Resources from the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Germany where he completed his thesis on the effects of beaver dams on hydrology and water quality in streams.
He is excited to be joining the Living Lakes Canada team as a Water Monitoring Technician for the Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework as well as helping to support the operations of the Columbia Basin Water Hub database. Braeden currently lives in Invermere.
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- Foreshore Integrated Management Planning
Brian Holmes has served as a full time councillor in the Upper Nicola Band Council since 2011. Prior to council he served 20 years in the agricultural sector on the Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch, the biggest cattle ranch in North America. Since retiring from the ranch he has dedicated himself to conservation and water monitoring projects in the Nicola Valley. Brian volunteers his time to trap invasive Yellow Perch in both Douglas Lake and Nicola Lake. His working group has removed over 10,000 perch in 2020, and an equal amount in 2021, working weekly on this project from spring through fall.
Brian has offered support and patient guidance while integrating Indigenous Perspectives into Western Scientific water stewardship work. Furthermore, he has been very resourceful in the creation of Indigenous-led Conservation efforts in the Nicola Valley. LLC is working with Brian to update the Foreshore Integrated Management Planning (FIMP) assessment process to better acknowledge Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Values into a federal protocol, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and Real Estate Foundation of BC (REFBC). The prioritization of TK to the FIMP framework has a multitude of benefits and will increase the success of the assessment process. The assessment allows evidence-based conservation decisions to support lake and ecosystem health.
Brian is invested in creating a better future for his watershed and the watershed of future generations. He is also an excellent storyteller, his insight and patient guidance are a source of inspiration for our team and colleagues, which inspires a collective responsibility. He inspires dedication through his autonomous dedication to his lake, watershed, family, and community.
Bryan brings a passion for financial literacy to his role as Finance Manager at Living Lakes Canada. He has worked for 15 years across multiple industries, with the past 5 years spent in the environmental non profit sector. A Certified Professional Accountant (CPA), Bryan happily works each day for wild places and healthy water. He's a graduate of the College of the North Atlantic (2008), Memorial University of Newfoundland (2010), and a Prosper Canada Financial Literacy Facilitator. He's a Newfoundlander, will proudly use the office microwave to reheat fish, dark coffee drinker, and spreadsheet enthusiast. Bryan joined the Living Lakes Canada team in 2022. He lives in Kimberley, B.C.
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- Program Manager
- Lake Blitz Program Manager
Camille grew up along the Sturgeon River in Alberta where she explored the surrounding wetlands and learned the names of the birds and the plants. After travelling in British Columbia's Southern Interior, working on organic farms, her draw to live in wild spaces next to lakes and mountains brought her to Nelson, B.C. in 2013.
Camille graduated from Selkirk College with an Associates Degree in Peace and Justice Studies and a diploma in Integrated Environmental Planning in 2018. Camille is grounded in both the social and environmental sciences, which reflect her passion for community capacity building and environmental advocacy.
Before joining Living Lakes Canada, Camille was the Program Manager of Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society and led projects on shoreline restoration, wildlife monitoring, and water quality monitoring. Camille is currently pursuing her Masters in Environment and Management from Royal Roads University.
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- Data and Field Manager for the Living Lakes Canada Upper Columbia Basin Groundwater Monitoring Program
- Field Operations and Data Manager
- Groundwater Program Field Operations and Data Manager
Carol is the data and field manager for the Living Lakes Canada Upper Columbia Basin Groundwater Monitoring Program. Carol has over 20 years of experience in environmental monitoring throughout Canada and in the mid-west United States. She has worked on diverse and complex projects including the distribution and bioaccumulation of contaminants in Arctic ecosystems, groundwater infiltration in fractured bedrock to asses the feasibility of deep geological disposal of nuclear waste, and wind erosion and air quality in arid environments. She has a Masters of Science in Physical Geography and a Bachelor of Science in Water Resources Engineering.
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- Government Relations Coordinator
- Indigenous and Government Relations Coordinator
Claire grew up on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, B.C. She is interested in the relationships between humans and nature, and in community adaptation and resiliency in the face of climate change. Claire graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. in Biology and Oceanography and recently completed her Masters of Marine Management at the University of Dalhousie in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a focus on community-engaged practice and Indigenous Food Sovereignty. Claire brings this community-centred perspective to her work with Living Lakes Canada's Applied Reconciliation Program.
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- Coordinator for the Canadian Watershed Information Network at the University of Manitoba
Claire Herbert works as the Coordinator for the Canadian Watershed Information Network at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is also currently pursuing a master's degree studying remote sensing of Prairie Lakes. Prior to working at the University, Ms. Herbert worked for Parks Canada Northern and Central Office on data management of long term datasets, and for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans studying water quality on prairie, northern and tropical lakes, including Lake Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods in Canada and Lake Victoria in Africa.
Growing up, Claire wanted to be a zookeeper which led to her studying Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Deakin University in Melbourne. Spending most of her time outside - camping, running, biking and enjoying the outdoors - she further fuelled her passion for conservation. After working for zoos in Australia and Canada she realized it wasn't for her and upon moving to Nelson B.C., began working with water through a local non-profit organization. Here she discovered her passion for the conservation and advocacy of this precious resource. Claire now works for the High Elevation Monitoring Program and the Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework conducting fieldwork and sourcing funding opportunities to sustain these valuable programs.
Claire is currently on maternity leave.
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- Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework Program Coordinator
- Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework Program Manager
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- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
- Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery
Daniel Schindler is a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington where he has been on the faculty since 1997. He is a principal investigator of the UW Alaska Salmon Program which has studied the ecology of salmon and their watersheds in western Alaska since 1946. His research is focused on freshwater ecosystems and their watersheds, addressing questions ranging from understanding basic ecological and evolutionary processes, to the effects of climate change, watershed development, and fisheries on ecosystem dynamics and natural resources. He received a BSc with Honours from the University of British Columbia, and a MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and serves as an editor of the journals Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Ecosystems. He is a previous recipient of the Frank Rigler Award from the Society of Canadian Limnologists, the Carl R. Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award from the American Fisheries Society, and the G.E. Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Science of Limnology and Oceanography. He was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2018 and recognized as a Fellow of the American Fisheries Society in 2021. He spends over 3 months of the year in the field in remote western Alaska, and has provided professional service to a wide variety of governmental, tribal, and non-governmental organizations.
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- Member of the Board
- in Memory
It's with deep sadness that we said goodbye to our friend, esteemed advisor and invaluable Living Lakes Canada Board member David Schindler in March 2021, whose brilliance, humility and dedication to fresh water protection is legendary. He is greatly missed. For an excellent article dedicated to David's life and career, please read The Tyee article David Schindler, the Scientific Giant Who Defended Fresh Water by award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk.
Devin is a corporate lawyer with a focus on multi-jurisdiction transactions, complex governance structures and compliance strategies for contentious regulatory environments.
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- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
Gilles Wendling first developed his love for groundwater when assessing the water demand and water supply for 100 new settlements in southern Mauritania in 1985. During this eye-opening experience, he recognized he did not know much about water wells. His Ph.D. research on the design of water wells filled that knowledge gap.
After working internationally, he started consulting in western and northern Canada for the mining and petroleum industries addressing groundwater contamination associated with their activities. Then, he decided to focus on the protection of aquifers and watersheds instead of working for parties responsible for water contamination. In 2005, Gilles started his own firm, GW Solutions, to have the freedom to focus on water supply, surface water and groundwater interaction, and watershed protection. GW Solutions conducts a large portion of its activities working with First Nations, recognizing that they are key stewards of the water. This has resulted in GW Solutions' involvement in complex and high-profile projects such as the review of the Mount Polley tailings dam failure and its impact on the groundwater regime, the review of the Ajax Mine (for/with Stk'emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation), the review of the Teck Frontier project (Athabasca Chypewyan First Nation), and groundwater reserve estimates in Treaty negotiations for the Te'mexw Treaty Association, the Maa-Nulth Treaty group and the K'omocs First Nations.
Gilles is very interested in public awareness and education on water stewardship. He is a co-author of the book Canada's Groundwater Resources, Rivera et al., 2013.
Carrying the genes of one of his ancestors who was a shepherd, Gilles enjoys the outdoors, whether hiking, ski mountaineering, or kayaking.
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- Member of the Board
- Treasurer
Dr. Paul Bach lived in the Columbia Valley for 10 years prior to moving to Vancouver where he now lives. He has travelled throughout many of Canada's remote and rural areas as a physician serving smaller communities, including the Canadian high Arctic, the Atlantic provinces as well the BC interior including the Columbia Valley. Paul has been a director for the Land Conservancy of BC and has over 10 years of board experience in the non for profit sector. As a physician, scientist, and environmental advocate, Paul understands the vital interconnections between the health of our ecosystems, the health of our planet and the health of humans and the health of water that connects them all.
Elizabeth, having lived coast to coast and back again, currently resides in Dartmouth, NS. She has over twenty years of experience working provincially, nationally and internationally on environmental policy issues. She led the first comprehensive national assessment of the health and threats of freshwater in Canada. She believes in empowering the local strength and wisdom of people and places to ignite collective impact. Elizabeth holds a BA in International Development and Environmental Science from Dalhousie University and a MES from the University of Waterloo.
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- Outreach and Communications Coordinator
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- Biomonitoring Program Manager
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- Foreshore Integrated Management Planning
- Professor at the University of British Columbia
Hans Schreier is a professor at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on watershed management, land-water interactions, soil and water pollution and GIS. He has worked extensively in watershed studies in 14 countries in the Himalayan and Andean regions, and in Canada. In 1999 he was recognized by the international Development Research Centre (IDRC) for his contribution to international development. He was a Co-Leader for the Watershed Program of the Canadian Water Network NCE 2004-2008, and he is a member of the Water Advisory Panel for the Columbia Basin Trust. Since 1995 he also teaches 4 WEB-based graduate courses on watershed management. In 2004 he received the "Science in Action" Award from The United Nations International Year of Fresh Water, for outstanding work in making watershed management knowledge and innovative, cost-effective applications possible, and in 2008 he received the King Albert International Mountain Award for scientific accomplishment of lasing values to the world's mountains, in Switzerland.
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- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
- Retired
Ian is an aquatic biologist, with over 35 years experience in environmental management. He began his career as a seasonal waterfowl biologist, and has been an environmental consultant, National Park warden, ENGO fund raiser/educator, and federal regulator. His last 25 years with BC MOECCS Environmental Protection Division in the Skeena region was split equally among duties as an impact assessment biologist, environmental quality section head and regional director. Since his retirement, Ian has continued to pursue his passion for water as a consultant and is currently acting as an advisor to the Collaborative Monitoring Initiative. Since 2012, Ian has served as a trustee with the Morice Watershed Monitoring Trust, a purpose trust for the benefit of the Wet'suwet'en people (https://moricetrust.ca/).
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board
Jane Fleet is a family doctor who lives and works in Invermere, BC. Prior to this, Jane practiced as physician for many years in Nunavut and in South Africa, as well as for shorter periods in other rural and remote regions of Canada. Jane is a outdoor enthusiast and has a strong interest in keeping the environment healthy for future generations.
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- Member of the Board
- Secretary
- Ecologist
Jen Theberge is an ecologist, with a career largely based in protected areas management in central and western Canada. Her work has specialized in wildlife ecology and ecosystem monitoring, as well as exploring the evolving elements of ecosystem-based management. She has facilitated research regarding aquatic systems in both boreal and mountain biomes. Jen holds a Ph.D. in conservation biology from the University of Calgary.
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- Research and Development Coordinator
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- Lake Blitz Program Coordinator
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- Is Director and Co - Founder of Waterlution
Karen Kun is Director and Co-founder of Waterlution - A Water Learning Experience and Publisher of Corporate Knights magazine. She is a current DiverseCity Fellow and board member of the Small Change Fund (smallchangefund.org), Leadership Development at the Banff Centre, and the Living Lakes Network Canada. Karen has a combined business-environmental background, including a commerce degree from Concordia University specializing in international business and an advanced geography education from York University, with a focus on water and environmental management. She founded Waterlution in 2003, after piloting water-learning programs in South Africa with local stakeholders following involvement in the World Summit for Sustainable Development.
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- Member of the Board
- Vice Chair
Laura Bell is a retired forester with 30 years experience in natural resource management and forest operations, primarily in the Columbia Valley and on Vancouver Island. She loves long-distance outdoor adventures and is most at home in the mountains and wilderness. Laura is passionate about ecosystem conservation and sustainable natural resource stewardship. She lives in the Columbia Valley near Brisco and on Vancouver Island.
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- Applied Reconciliation Coordinator
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- Member of the Board
- Director at Large
Mandi spent her post-secondary academic years studying the impacts of development on significant ecological systems - including the fragile high-alpine of the Himalaya - and exploring management in the Canadian non-profit sector. A love of wilderness, wildlife, and small mountain communities brought her and her family to the Columbia Valley, where she has lived for the past 20 years working with environmental and social NGOs. Mandi developed the award-winning Lake Windermere Project and is currently branch manager at Wildsight Invermere.
Job Titles:
- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
Mara Nelson is ʔaqⱡsmaknik. She is a former Education Assistant specializing in Sign Language Transliteration. Mara now devotes her time to learning her Ktunaxa Language and more about the challenges that the lands, mountains and waters she calls home now face. She currently resides in Central Alberta with her family and returns as frequently as possible to ʔamakis Ktunaxa.
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- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
- Lawyer, Writer
Merrell-Ann Phare is a lawyer, writer and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), a national First Nation charitable environmental organisation. She is a Commissioner of the International Joint Commission. As Chief Negotiator for the Government of the Northwest Territories, Merrell-Ann lead the negotiation of transboundary water agreements in the Mackenzie River Basin and the creation of Thaidene Nene, a national and terrritorial park in the east arm of Great Slave Lake in NWT.
She is the author of the book ‘Denying the Source: the Crisis of First Nations Water Rights' and co-author of 'Ethical Water'. She facilitates the Collaborative Leadership Initiative in southern Manitoba. She is a member of the Forum for Leadership on Water, is a recipient of Canada's Clean 50 Award and regularly speaks on water ethics, governance, and reconciliation issues.
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- Communications Director & Acting Government Liaison
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- All Living Lakes Canada Programs
- Co - Director of the University of Victoria
Oliver M Brandes serves as Co-Director of the University of Victoria's POLIS Project on Ecological Governance and leads the Water Sustainability Project where his work focuses on water sustainability, sound resource management, public policy development and ecologically based legal and institutional reform. Oliver is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in both Law and in Public Administration. He is a founding member of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) and the BC Convening for Action Vancouver Island (CAVI) Leadership Team and has affiliations at a number of Canadian Universities as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Studies and at Brock University's Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and a Faculty Associate at the University of Manitoba's Global Political Economy Program.
In 2012 he co-developed and co-taught BC's first Water Law course at the University of Victoria's Law school. He formally serves the BC Ministry of Environment advising on Water Act Modernization and is a technical advisor to the Council of the Federation on water and serves on many boards and committees that provide strategic water policy advice to all levels of government, as well as numerous national and regional non-government and funding organizations - including as Co-Chair of the WWF Canada's Freshwater Program. In 2017 Oliver was appointed to lead an independent expert review on source drinking water protection in B.C., which resulted in regulatory change and informed the Auditor General of British Columbia's work on drinking water.
He has over 100 academic and professional publications and in 2009, helped lead the writing of Making the Most of the Water We Have: The Soft Path Approach to Water Management which brought together the results of the first-ever international comprehensive water soft path study.
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- Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework Program Manager
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- Technical Director of the Near Surface Geophysics
Paul Bauman is the Technical Director of the Near Surface Geophysics group at WorleyParsons, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Paul started the group in 1990, and has since managed or co-managed the group. Paul has a B.Sc.E. in Geological Engineering from Princeton, and an M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo. Paul is a Professional Geophysicist and Professional Engineer with over 30 years of geophysical exploration experience in the environmental, engineering, water resource, mining, oil and gas, and archaeology disciplines. While Paul has worked extensively in Western Canada on many water resource related projects, some of the more unusual sites where he has carried out investigations include approximately 20 archaeology sites in Israel, and in refugee camps in Bangladesh and Africa. Paul has appeared in a number of documentaries and television series including the National Geographic Television special Finding Atlantis, two NOVA documentaries (Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land and Holocaust Escape Tunnel [Nov., 2017]), the documentary Deadly Deception at Sobibor, the six episode Discovery series Finding Escobar's Millions (Nov. 2017), the soon to be released The Good Nazi, and Finding Water (Jan., 2018), which is about a water exploration program in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
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- Kootenay Watershed Science Program Hydrologist
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- Water Monitoring Technician
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- Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network ( CABIN ) Program
- Professor of Biology, Forestry and Environmental
Allen Curry is a professor of Biology, Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, NB, Canada. He was a founding member (2001) then Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) from 2004-13 when he stepped down to become the Principal Investigator for the multi-million dollar Mactaquac Aquatic Ecosystem Study. He is a Fellow of the CRI, the NB Department of Natural Resources/Cloverleaf Foundation Professor of Recreational Fisheries Research, and Assistant Director-NB Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, reports, books, and book chapters in the fields of fish ecology, fisheries, freshwater/estuarine/reef ecology, ecohydrology, and various fields within hydrology from environmental flows to forest hydrology processes. He sustains a suite of research associates, post-doctoral researchers, technicians, and graduate and undergraduate students, and teaches courses on statistics for the environmental sciences and the impacts of humans on the coral reefs.
Ramsha is an environment and sustainability professional working at the intersection of climate change, infrastructure and policy.
She has worked for not-for-profit organizations, provincial governments and the private sector. Her experiences include developing ESG strategies and climate action plans, researching emerging climate risks, and creating environmental policies.
Ramsha has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences from McMaster University, a post-graduate certificate in Environmental Management and Assessment, and has recently achieved certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) in Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR).
Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, canoeing and trying out new recipes.
Remi Allard, P. Eng., is a hydrogeologist based in Cranbrook, B.C. with over 35 years of groundwater consulting experience in B.C. and in several countries overseas. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering and has been registered as a professional engineer in British Columbia since 1988. Remi is an advocate for sustainable development of the groundwater resource, having completed all types of water supply studies including aquifer and well assessments, well construction, monitoring and rehabilitation. He has extensive experience in environmental data management, environmental assessment, permitting and water license applications. He is past president of the BC Groundwater Association, past technical director for the Canadian Groundwater Association, the author of several papers, has presented at regional, national and international technical conferences and has sat as a technical advisor on groundwater issues for the Okanagan Basin Water Board. Remi continues to work part time for McElhanney Engineering, mostly on new well construction, aquifer water balances, surface water/groundwater interaction studies and as a technical expert on insurance and legal cases addressing problematic drainage.
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- Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework Program Coordinator
Richard is a Professional Engineer who works with people on hydro-geological-engineering projects. His work has included fluid flow through porous media, geology and reservoir modelling. Together with his wife and business partner Susan, they have taught water analysis interpretation to engineers and geologists for over 20 years. Richard also teaches an on-line course on how to analyze GIS data and make maps using the open-source QGIS software.
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- Member of the Board
- Director at Large
- Retired Energy Industry Leader
Scott is a retired energy industry leader who spent the last thirty years driving for improvements in industry environmental and safety performance. He's been fortunate to influence positive change through working relationships with civil society, government, industry associations, and not for profit boards. Scott was actively involved in working with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development on design of global best practices for water and ecosystem management. Scott has a bachelor of science in geography and an MBA, where his focus was on environmental management and sustainable development. Scott now lives and plays in the East Kootenay region of B.C.
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- Research and Development Coordinator