True leaders never stop being minions The summer has flashed by and keeping to my self-imposed blogging schedule has been tough, even though I stepped down as Director of IRIS, York University's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, at the end of April 2014, and switched my daily routine from a leader & manager-type […]
Dawn's Blog and General News Items
Lab Alumnus: Dr. Andrew Tanentzap
The sub-title for this post is: Andrew's main Hobby is doing science all the time! Dr. Tanentzap, who is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, has been very busy in the last couple of weeks, since his latest paper, with Mark Vicari & myself was published in Biology Letters. It's all about how moose […]
Lab Alumnus: Dr. Gustaf Granath
The sub-title for this page is: He Runs Up Mountains for Fun! I met Gustaf in 2004, when I was on sabbatical in Umeå at SLU, the Swedish Agricultural University. Gustaf was a student at SLU-Uppsala campus, but was interested in doing a research project with my host, Dr. John Ball, who was in the Animal […]
Lab Alumna: Dr. Adriana Puentes
A pillar of persistence as a woman in #STEM I'm still playing around with the best way to make posts about past students from the lab, within the limitations imposed by the YorkU wordpress template. Adriana did her BSc at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Botany (now called EEB: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). […]
Updated Evidence-Based Policy in Canada Blog
I've been learning (and writing) about the science-policy-politics nexus since I took on the directorship of IRIS (York's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability) in 2006. Colleagues such as York's Steacie Science Librarian, John Dupuis have done important work, documenting the Harper government's cuts to research in general and organizing the Death of Evidence Funeral […]
Marina Silva's opening speech at 3rd Adaptation Futures conference, Brazil
I'm posting after 15 May because fact-checking was needed! On Monday 12 May 2014, Marina Silva, the former Brazilian Minister of the Environment under President Lula, who is currently running on a Presidential election ticket with Eduardo Campos, as candidate for Vice-President, gave the opening speech, in Portuguese at the 3rd Adaptation Futures Conference in Fortaleza, […]
Repost: Food blog no. 1 - waste not, want not
I'm headed off, with Ellie Perkins, to a conference in Brazil, called Adaption Futures. It's all about how we are living and will live in a hotter, crazier, more ecologically unstable world. Since things have been a bit busy at the end of term, I'm recycling blogs! HERE'S an updated REPOST. It was originally Published May 6, 2010 My […]
The ecological benefits of backyard chickens
Visiting central Massachusetts is always fun. There are loads of higher education institutions, such Harvard Forest (Harvard University), where I spent 6 months during my last sabbatical, University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, Smith College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College, all located near each other, with lots of interactions and collaborations. Last weekend, I […]
Networking 101: Conferences: David Staples' Guest Blog
This term has been even more hectic than usual, with a perfect storm of teaching, research and administrative (bureaucratic) duties. As a result, I got behind with my regular twice monthly blog posts. I'm now attempting to get back on track with a double post. In addition to teaching Plant Ecology, I've also been supervising […]
