I first met Aman in January 2018 when I was a Visiting Professor at Siksha Bhavana's Environmental Studies, Visva Bharati University in West Bengal, India, on the other side of the Digital Divide. Aman was in the second year of his M.Sc. in Environmental Studies, which at Visva Bharati, places more of an emphasis on environmental […]
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Lab People: Jenna Leblanc studies prairie grassland restoration in Alberta
My favourite plant family is the grasses. So, I was delighted when Jenna Leblanc contacted me about doing a PhD at York, for which the field work in restoration ecology of prairie plant communities would be done in Alberta at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park in Calgary, where Jenna had been a member of the park […]
Lab People: Nyssa van Vierssen Trip studies how people think about biodiversity in Toronto and globally
In 2015, I received an email from a newly arrived doctoral student in the Faculty of Environmental Students (now the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change), Ms. Nyssa van Vierssen Trip. Nyssa invited me to join her PhD supervisory committee, explaining that her two previous degrees were straight up Biology, but that she wanted to […]
Use Your Health Benefits for the Sake of the Students!
I have a great health benefits package that I have used during the pandemic more than I ever have over thirty years, except when I got a back injury in 2015. Caring for my own mental and physical health has been essential in maintaining my capacity for supporting the more vulnerable members of the YorkU […]
My 2021 monthly Lab Blog Posts packed into twelve days of Fall Term December
Post one of twelve, Covering My Final Chair's Remarks at Faculty of Graduate Studies Council in June 2021 Come January 2022, I will be teaching, in-person, BIOL 4095: Applied Plant Ecology. It's the same course I was teaching in Winter Term 2020, when the global Covid-19 pandemic hit. From mid-January 2020 I covered the emerging […]
