Taking a few side roads
While I’ve written a few posts here recently, I’ve also been busy elsewhere and thought I’d share some of my posts that have come up … Read more
Watershed management: the big and the small
I live in the Shawnigan Lake watershed – a 110 km2 parcel of land edged by the hilly topography of the glacially scraped coastal hills, … Read more
Finding home
Spring is out in full force on the West Coast, punctuated by pink cherry blossoms, yellow forsythia, and the delicately sculptured white blooms of sweet-scented … Read more
How book club helped my photography
I’m a proud member of a two-person book club. While we live at separate ends of our vast country, the two of us share a … Read more
Bridging the communication gap: researchers vs. residents in environmental science
In the far southwestern corner of Alberta, tucked up against the eastern flanks of the Rocky Mountains, is the Star Creek watershed. Seen from the … Read more
Accepting the things we cannot change
I enjoy blogs like Words Are My Game, where Liana M. Silva chronicles her writing life: the struggles to fit writing in amongst family issues, … Read more
Mount Polley mine disaster: redux
Science Borealis is holding a blog carnival to celebrate their first anniversary, with bloggers writing about the most important story in their field for 2014. … Read more
Questions about a Parliamentary Science Officer
A couple of weeks ago, the European Union’s Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) was axed. It didn’t make headlines in Canada until about a week ago, … Read more
Scientist to science writer
It began as an adventure, of the flying kind. The smell of jet fuel and the constant engine roar in the quilted interior of the … Read more
Blogging all over the place
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve blogged here, but it’s not as though I’m not blogging at all. In fact, most of my posts … Read more