Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
In this episode students discuss their own experiences studying and researching in environmental history graduate studies in Canada.
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.
In episode 22 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj talks to Claire Campbell, the editor of A Century of Parks Canada, and contributing authors George Colpitts and Gwynn Langemann on Canada’s national parks history from coast to coast.
Stewart Brand talks about cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.
Kevin Kelly presents his perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology, and religion.
Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
