Oral & Poster Presentations Outline Oral Presentations Outline A
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E
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Geographies of the Central Coast I
Indigenous Geographies
Asia Special Session I
Ecosystems and Landscape Change
Cities, Energy & Climate Change
Hydrological Cycle
Geographies of the Central Coast II
Geographies of Food
Asia Special Session II
Paleo-­
Geographies of environments Hazards
I
Careers in Geography
Community Engaged Learning Book Launch
Imaginative Geographies
Celebrating Community Connections
The World is the Classroom I
The World is the Classroom II
Lunch Sessions
Earth, Wind, No Fire
Lunch Sessions
Coastal & Marine Geomorph
Resources & Development
Paleo-­
Critical Urban environments Sustainability Geographies I
II
Studies
Our Changing Population
Human-­
Animal Interactions
Feminist Geographies
Paleo-­
Landscapes, Urban environments Conservation & Geographies II
III
Restoration
Intersections with History and Archaeology
Posters – ECS Lobby 8:30-­‐9:50
10:30-­‐11:50
12:10-­‐12:50
ECS 130
1:00-­‐2:20
ECS 125
3:00-­‐4:20
ECS 124
1
ECS 123
2
ECS 116
3 ECS 108
4
ECS 104
5
4:30-­‐5:30
WDCAG AGM
4:30 – 7:00
7:00
Engaging Feminist Geographies Café
All presentations will take place in the Engineering and Computer Science Building (ECS). Reception / Geography Trivia, Felicitas Pub (Student Union Building)
WDCAG Banquet, Michel Pujol Room (Student Union Building) 2 First Sessions: 8:30am to 9:50am Stream A ”Imaginative Geographies” (Room ECS 104) Tomi Ihalainen, undergrad, UBC The Real in the Ethereal: Creating Space, Meaning and Power Online 8:30-­‐8:50 Jolene Jackson, graduate, UVic Painting the Landscape Scene / Seen 8:50-­‐9:10 Jennifer Patterson, undergrad, VIU Dark Mirror: Planning, Duality and the Works of China Mieville 9:10-­‐9:30 Simon Springer, faculty, UVic Earth Writing 9:30-­‐9:50 Stream B “Geographies of the Central Coast I” (Room ECS 108) Megan Adams, graduate, UVic Motivating factors: spatial interaction among mobile consumers, patchy prey and complex landscapes. 8:30-­‐8:50 Ted Fuller, geoscientist, TRU Central Coast Flood Events in the Bella Coola River Valley during 2010 and 2011 8:50-­‐9:10 Christina Service, graduate, UVic Recent distribution shifts in wildlife restructures the competitive landscape of coastal carnivores 9:10-­‐9:30 Maggie Low, graduate, UBC Indigenous Right and Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest 9:30-­‐9:50 Stream C “Indigenous Geographies” (Room ECS 116) Jessica Tourand, undergrad, UFV The impacts of economic development through tourism on Canadian Indigenous geographies 8:30-­‐8:50 Jalene Anderson, graduate, U of A Prevalence and causes of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada 8:50-­‐9:10 Jessica Place, graduate, SFU Law, Space and Power: '(Re)splicing' Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve 9:10-­‐9:30 Ysler Tamblyn, graduate, UNBC Is Resource Extraction a Curse or Bonanza for Local Communities? A Case Study: Quiruvilca, Peru 9:30-­‐9:50 Stream D “Asia Special Session” (Room ECS 123) Hana Birzer, undergrad, UBC Guiding NGOs in Burma: How International Relief NGOs can work with Burma (Myanmar) in order to Enhance Human Rights, Reduce Ethnic Conflicts and Support Democratic Development 8:30-­‐8:50 Jim Delaney, graduate, U of Toronto Rich, Like China: Policy transfer, technology and market governance in Vietnam's bamboo sector 8:50-­‐9:10 Evelyne Laurin, graduate, UVic Conversations on empowerment: Investigating the social impacts of microfinance programs on Cambodian women 9:10-­‐9:30 Terah Sportel, instructor, UFV Diverging developments: Livelihood dynamics and agrarian change in the coconut economy of Kerala 9:30-­‐9:50 3 Stream E “Ecosystems and Landscape Change” (Room ECS 124) Kim House, graduate, SFU Adjusting to landscapes of change: Avian responses to wildfire and mountain pine beetle outbreak in British Columbia 8:30-­‐8:50 Shanley Thompson, graduate, UVic Spatio-­‐Temporal Dynamics of Global Ecosystem Productivity 8:50-­‐9:10 Ian Darke, graduate, UVic Restoration and monitoring of coastal dune dynamics: Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, British Colombia, Canada 9:10-­‐9:30 Saroj Thapa, faculty, South Dakota State U Evaluation of WELD LANDSAT data for monitoring land cover change in the Pacific Northwest 9:30-­‐9:50 THaps Stream F “Cities, Energy & Climate Change” (Room ECS 125) So Jeon, undergrad, UFV Exploring Energy Security Policy and Practice in Metro Vancouver Municipalities 8:30-­‐8:50 Andrew Picard, undergrad, UVic Copenhagenize Vancouver: Perspectives on bicycling after a semester abroad 8:50-­‐9:10 Derek Swallow, undergrad, UFV Climate Change and Children in Developing Urban Environments 9:10-­‐9:30 Dana Short, researcher, Applied Environmental Research Laboratories Regional Climate Change Impact Index. A Case Study: Coastal British Columbia and Bangladesh 9:30-­‐9:50 Stream G “The Hydrological Cycle” (Room ECS 130) Joanna Borzecki, undergrad UBCO Precipitation Patterns on the Windward side of a Coastal Mountain Range in Southwestern British Columbia 8:30-­‐8:50 John Martin, faculty, Kwantlen The water balance of a small coastal headwater lake 8:50-­‐9:10 K. Wayne Forsythe, faculty, Ryerson Utilization of Kriging and Bathymetry to Analyze Sediment Contamination in the Lower Great Lakes 9:10-­‐9:30 Gillian Walker, graduate, UVic Climate Change Effects on Water Balance: Is Increased Future Evaporation Compensated by Increased Precipitation in the Lower Athabasca River Region of Northern Alberta, Canada? 9:30-­‐9:50 4 Second Sessions: 10:30am to 11:50am Stream A “Celebrating Community Connections” (Room ECS 104) Pamela Shaw, faculty, VIU Community Mapping: Collaborations on Place 10:30-­‐10:50 Ken Josephson, cartographer, UVic The UVic Community Mapping Collaboratory: Capital Regional District Green Map 10:50-­‐11:10 Lilaine Galway, Community Development Manager, United Way The United Way of Greater Victoria: Community Tables Project 11:10-­‐11:30 Open discussion on community / university connections 11:30-­‐11:50 Stream B “Geographies of the Central Coast II” (Room ECS 108) Jordan Eamer, graduate, UVic Toward a late Pleistocene and Holocene geomorphic history of Calvert Island 10:30-­‐10:50 Dan Shugar, post doc, UVic 20,000 years of sea level fluctuations in Pacific North America 10:50-­‐11:10 Christina Neudorf, graduate, UVic Optical ages and luminescence characteristics of quartz and feldspar from Calvert Island, British Columbia central coast, Canada 11:10-­‐11:30 11:30-­‐11:50 Stream C “Geographies of Food” (Room ECS 116) Sarah Lone, undergrad, UBC Decolonial Diets: More Than Just Your Local Food Movement 10:30-­‐10:50 Amanda Younger, undergrad, Kwantlen Locally Grown Food in Surrey BC 10:50-­‐11:10 Myles Carroll, graduate, UVic The new agrarian double-­‐movement 11:10-­‐11:30 Daniel Brendle-­Moczuk, librarian, UVic Re-­‐Locating the orchards of Victoria, BC: A 20 yards diet! 11:30-­‐11:50 Stream D “Asia Special Session II” (Room ECS 123) David Edgington, faculty, UBC Commercializing University Research: The Case of Nanjing 10:30-­‐10:50 Andrew Marton, Assoc. VP International, VIU Defining Creative Industries in Ningbo, China 10:50-­‐11:10 Akira Tabayashi, Professor Emeritus, U of Tsukuba Regional Differences in the Commodification of Rural Space in terms of Recreation and Tourism in Central Japan 11:10-­‐11:30 Tom Waldichuk, faculty, TRU The impact of a new ring road and a local bypass in the Tokyo urban fringe on two small hamlets in Ushiku City 11:30-­‐11:50 5 Stream E “Paleo-­Environments I” (Room ECS 124) Ansley Charbonneau, graduate, UVic Rock glaciers in the Coast Mountains 10:30-­‐10:50 Bryan Mood, graduate, UVic Frankly, Amazing: Dendroglaciological Investigations at Franklin Glacier, Mt Waddington area, British Columbia Coast Mountains 10:50-­‐11:10 Vikki St-­Hilaire, graduate, UVic Extending the Mid-­‐Holocene Glacier History of Northern British Columbia: New Evidence from Salmon Glacier 11:10-­‐11:30 Hester Jiskoot, faculty, U of L A whale of a tale in 1710: East Greenland’s oldest weather and sea ice records 11:30-­‐11:50 Stream F “Geographies of Hazards” (Room ECS 125) Diamir de Scally, undergrad, UBCO Ten Years Later: Mitigation of Interface Fire Risk in Kelowna, British Columbia following the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire 10:30-­‐10:50 Danielle Jang, undergrad, UBC Geography of Danger: Reykjavik 10:50-­‐11:10 Ben Jestico, undergrad, UVic Optimal emergency route planning for schools in Oak Bay after an earthquake/tsunami: A GIS approach 11:10-­‐11:30 Michael Branion-­Calles, graduate, UVic Conflating residential radon surveys and mapping the spatial variation in indoor radon levels in British Columbia 11:30-­‐11:50 Stream G ”Earth, Wind, No Fire” (Room ECS 130) Talaat Bakri, graduate, UNBC Synoptic-­‐scale Analysis for Number of Gap Winds in the Coast of British Columbia 10:30-­‐10:50 Rebecca Edwards, undergrad, VIU Temperature, Precipitation, and Snowfall Trends on Vancouver Island 10:50-­‐11:10 Jordan Ellis, undergrad, TRU Influences of aspect, gradient, and slope position on vegetation cover, Mocatan Badlands, Almera, Spain. 11:10-­‐11:30 Brandon Heung, graduate, SFU Regional-­‐Scale Mapping of Soil Parent Materials using a Random Forest Approach 11:30-­‐11:50 6 Third (Lunch) Sessions 12:10pm to 12:50pm Hosted by: Bethany Coulthard, graduate, UVic “Careers in Geography” Panel Discussion Room ECS 123 Teresa Dawson (UVic), Budd Hall
(UVic) & Catherine Etmanski (RRU)
Book Launch and Interactive reflections: “Learning and Teaching Community Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice” Room ECS 16 Fourth Sessions 1:00pm to 2:20pm Stream A “The World is the Classroom I” (Room ECS 104) Cam Owens, faculty, UVic Assessing field teaching & learning for sustainability as a contested concept 1:00-­‐1:20 Paige Erickson-­McGee, undergrad, UVic Teaching & Learning for Sustainability: Reflective Student Video Project 1:20-­‐1:40 Denise Brown, faculty, U of C Articulating the Pedagogy of Field Courses in Geography 2:00-­‐2:20 Aaron Williams, instructor, U of C The Integration of Physical and Human Geography Approaches in Thematic International Field School Programs 2:20-­‐2:40 Stream B Coastal and Marine Geomorphology (Room ECS 108) Terence Day, UBCO Magnetic measurements of beach sediments along the eroding coastline of North Norfolk (UK) 1:00-­‐1:20 Michael Grilliot, graduate, UVic Examining the geomorphic role of historical large woody debris on British Columbia's beaches. 1:20-­‐1:40 Sean Mullan, graduate, UVic Seasonal to decade scale observations of very-­‐large submarine dunes in a high-­‐energy tidal constriction, Boundary Passage, Salish Sea, British Columbia and Washington State 2:00-­‐2:20 Curtis Stephens, UVic A short term (seasonal) investigation of Large Woody Debris (LWD) effect on coastal geomorphic environments of Sombrio Beach 2:20-­‐2:40 Stream C “Resources & Development” (Room ECS 116) Gretchen Hernandez, graduate, SFU From Theory to Practice: Identifying and Activating Community Capitals 1:00-­‐1:20 for Sustainable Local Economic Development Rashid Md Abdur, undergrad, UNBC A Study of the impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Women’s Development and Empowerment in Bangladesh 1:20-­‐1:40 Stephan Nieweler, graduate, SFU Intersecting Values: The Direct and Indirect Community Land Use Pressures from Megaproject Developments in Northwest BC 2:00-­‐2:20 Jennifer Mateer, graduate, UVic Expanding Violence: Understanding the potentials of symbolic and silent conceptions 2:20-­‐2:40 7 Stream D “Urban Geographies I” (Room ECS 123) Iain Marjoribanks, UBC The Right to Cyberspace: The Revanchist City and its Digital Infrastructures 1:00-­‐1:20 Jessica Fitterer, graduate, UVic Forecasting Break and Entries across Vancouver British Columbia Canada 1:20-­‐1:40 Martin Andresen, faculty, SFU Social media data, the population at risk, and spatial crime analysis 2:00-­‐2:20 Tom Johnston, faculty, U of L Assessing the Motivations of Exurbanites 2:20-­‐2:40 Stream E: “Paleo-­Environments II” (Room ECS 124) Jason Maillet, graduate, U Sask Analysis of white spruce radial growth under coastal influences in Labrador 1:00-­‐1:20 Andrew Sheriff, undergraduate, UVic Investigating growth synchronicity in two disjunct mountain hemlock populations 1:20-­‐1:40 Vera Pospelova, faculty, UVic Sedimentary records of environmental and primary productivity change 2:00-­‐2:20 in coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific. Mike Wilson, faculty, Douglas Early Postglacial Megafauna and Vegetation in the Wake of Ice Retreat: Biotic Drivers of Change in Pacific Northwest Landscapes 2:20-­‐2:40 Stream F: Critical Sustainability Studies (Room ECS 125) Kevin Chan, undergrad, UBC The Complexity of New Urbanism: Gentrification and Sustainability in a Neoliberal Age 1:00-­‐1:20 Mason Goulden, undergrad, UFV Reimagining Contemporary Sustainable Development 1:20-­‐1:40 Tim Nugent, undergrad, UVic Governance and Institutional Integration for a More Sustainable Capital Regional District 2:00-­‐2:20 Tajinder, Dhaliwal, graduate, UNBC Thinking outside of the blue box: considering Sikh perceptions of and participation in recycling, in Abbottsford, BC. 2:20-­‐2:40 Stream G: “Our Changing Population” (Room ECS 130) Alison McIntosh, undergrad, U of A Edmonton's Smoke-­‐Free Playgrounds: Awareness and Attitudes 1:00-­‐1:20 Deanne Lycan, Senior Research Associate, Portland State Univ. Institute on Aging Forecasting Senior Populations 1:20-­‐1:40 Theresa Garvin, faculty, U of A Aging Spaces for Aging in Place 2:00-­‐2:20 William Munroe, CAG Population Projections Methods for Community Members 2:20-­‐2:40 8 Fifth Sessions 3:00pm to 4:20pm Stream A “The World is My Classroom II” (Room ECS 104) Cherie Enns, Faculty, UFV The World is My Classroom 3:00-­‐3:20 Helen Kobrc, Co-­‐op Coordinator, UVic Co-­‐Operative Education: A community engagement and shared learning opportunity 3:20-­‐3:40 Robin Reid, Faculty, TRU Place-­‐Based Curriculum: Revealing student connections with community through walking tours 3:40-­‐4:00 4:00-­‐4:20 Stream B “Human-­Animal Interactions” (Room ECS 108) Rosie Child, undergrad, UVic Motivation and facilitation of size-­‐selective hunting by modern human predators 3:00-­‐3:20 Mathieu Bourbonnais, graduate, UVic Spatial analysis of factors influencing long-­‐term stress in the grizzly bear population (Ursus arctos) population of Alberta, Canada 3:20-­‐3:40 Matthew Bowes, graduate, UVic Shorebirds, Wolves, Dogs and Beaches: Human-­‐Wildlife Conflict in Pacific Rim National Park 3:40-­‐4:00 Robin Kite, graduate, UVic Quantifying the effects of linear disturbance features on wildlife movement patterns 4:00-­‐4:20 Stream C “Feminist Geographies” (Room ECS 116) Blake Hawkins, UNBC Our Little Piece of Heaven: Understanding Conflict over a Women's Recovery Centre 3:00-­‐3:20 Dawn Hoogeveen, graduate, UBC Feminist Geographies and the "self": Questioning reflexivity, positionality and privilege 3:20-­‐3:40 Shandell Houlden, graduate, UBCO Towards an Ecology of Posthuman, Feminist Methodologies 3:40-­‐4:00 Neil Nunn, n/a Human Exceptionalism and Contemporary Feminist Thought 4:00-­‐4:20 Blake Hawkins, UNBC and Pamela Moss, faculty, UVic Special Session: Engaging Feminist Geographies Café 4:30-­‐5:30 Stream D “Urban Geographies II” (Room ECS 123) Sejal Lal, undergrad, UBC The City Shares: The Role of Local Government in the Sharing Economy 3:00-­‐3:20 Maral Sotoudehnia, graduate, UVic 'I am Burj Khalifa”: performing the city-­‐as-­‐superlative in the dreamworld of ˜global” Dubai 3:20-­‐3:40 Nicholas Lynch, instructor, UVic and Yolande Pottie-Sherman,
PhD, UBC Marketing palimpsests: Real estate advertising and the promotion of urban space 3:40-­‐4:00 Reuben Rose-­Redwood, faculty, UVic Sponsoring Winnipeg: Naming Rights, Place-­‐Making, and the Cultural Politics of Entrepreneurial Urbanism 4:00-­‐4:20 9 Stream E “Paleo-­Environments III” (Room ECS 124) Bethany Coulthard, graduate, UVic Tree-­‐ring derived low-­‐flow records for three drought-­‐susceptible hydrological regimes in south coastal British Columbia. 3:00-­‐3:20 Aquila Flower, faculty, U of Washington Wildfires and western spruce budworm outbreaks: a multi-­‐century dendrochronological record of forest disturbance interactions in the interior Pacific Northwest 3:20-­‐3:40 Jessica Vanstone, graduate, U of Regina Drought in paleo-­‐climatic studies 3:40-­‐4:00 Robert Young, faculty, UBCO Post Palaeocene fluvial environments that shaped Canada's Western Interior 4:00-­‐4:20 David Barrett, graduate, UVic Composite particles and the glacier-­‐fed freshwater systems of British Columbia and Alberta 4:20-­‐4:40 Stream F “Landscape, Conservation & Restoration” (Room ECS 125) Cherise Chrispen, undergrad, UNBC Thinking closer to home: Considering the consumption-­‐related beliefs and behaviours of North American sea turtle conservation practitioners 3:00-­‐3:20 Miki Eslake, undergrad, UBC Where to Draw the Line: Measuring Visitor Experience in Garibaldi Park as it Relates to Crowding 3:20-­‐3:40 David Rossiter, faculty, Western Washington U The BC Forest Branch and the making of Mt. Seymour Provincial Park 3:40-­‐4:00 John Davenport, faculty, Oklahoma State U Confabulating "The Old West": Rangeland Restoration and Bison Reintroduction in the Montana High Line 4:00-­‐4:20 Stream G “Intersections with Archaeology & History” (Room ECS 130) Sarah Cooke, undergrad, TRU Using remote sensing and aerial archaeology to detect pit house features in satellite imagery Brent Whitford, undergrad, VIU GIS applications in archaeology: an integrated object-­‐relational 3:20-­‐3:40 geodatabase model for the documentation of archaeological excavations Jenna Aujla, undergrad, UBC Families of Fort Langley -­‐ The Cromarty Family 3:40-­‐4:00 Erik Piikkila, Railroad Logging Legacies Project Hidden and Forgotten Dead Sea Scrolls & Rosetta Stones For Geography and Ecology: Learning From the Past, To Understand The Present, and To Predict The Future 4:00-­‐4:20 Patrick Buckley, faculty, Western Washington U. The Pig War and the demise of Manifest Destiny 4:20-­‐4:40 3:00-­‐3:20 10 Poster Presentations Posters will be available throughout the Conference in the ECS Lobby. While there is not a set presentation time, we encourage poster presenters to be available for questions with their posters during the refreshment and lunch breaks. Arranged in alphabetical order by first name. Author(s) Poster title Alana Rader, UVic Quantifying Long-­‐Term Rates of Shoreline Sediment Transportation at the Beacon Hill Bluffs, Victoria, British Columbia Alexandra Zanussi, King’s University College Comparative growth analysis of moss density on poplar trees in urban settings Amelia Van Hoffen, King’s University College Post-­‐mortem of the Joint Panel Report for the Northern Gateway Project: a comparison of voices Brent William Dragon, undergrad, U of A Edmonton's true Diversion Rate Byron Smiley, UVic Developing a 100-­‐year Retrospective Carbon Budget for the Sooke Watershed, Vancouver Island, BC. Carly N Lawrence, TRU Going in circles: the effects of Anthony Henday Drive on the spatial distribution of the population, Edmonton, 1996-­‐2006. Carys Pinches, UVic An investigation of the implementation of Water Demand Management thru Canadian foreign aid, with specific emphasis on the IDRC-­‐funded WADImena Project in Farafra Oasis, Egypt Chris Darimont, UVic Super Predator: Spatial-­‐Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioural Insight into Hunters and Fishers Christopher Davis, Western Washington U Red River Basin: Federal vs Local Water Governance. Chris Steven Kohn and Caleb Mottet, Western Washington U Comparing and Contrasting Historical Commercial Fishery Regulations in the United States and Canada to Present Day David McCaffrey, U of L The Effect of Federal Redistribution on Election Results in Saskatchewan Heather Richardson, TRU A mapping project to soilidify the framework of a carbon-­‐offset program for ranching in BC Heike Gabriele Lettrari and Eric Higgs, UVic The mountain pine beetle, climate change, and scientists: Understanding the implications of rapid ecological change Jenna Lauren Falk and Eric S Higgs, UVic “Long-­‐term Change and Ecosystem Management in Remote Protected Areas: A Photographic Analysis of Willmore Wilderness Park (WWP) and Mount Robson Provincial Park (MRPP)” 11 Jessica Perkins, Naomi Muller and Bryce O'Connor, UVic The effects of armouring on sediment transport at Esquimalt Lagoon on the Colwood Delta, Victoria BC. John Bradley Grotenhuis, UFV The Concentration of Abbotsford's Visible Minority: A Spatial Analysis Jonathan Edwin Cripps, SFU Quantification of the paleogeography of glacial lakes in southern BC Jordan Bryce, UFV A comparison of anomalous fading rates (g-­‐value) in optical dating determined using two different laboratory methods Jonathan F Hughes & Ariel A Brown, UFV Evidence of anthropogenic disturbance preserved in wetland sediments adjacent to the Fraser River Jonathan F Hughes, Tracey Lee Heron and Daniel T Selbie, UFV Recent landscape disturbance recorded in sediments beneath a small lake in the Fraser Lowland of British Columbia Jonathan F Hughes and Gareth Wells, UFV Wetland sediments tell of Holocene earthquakes Joshua Cutler, Barnabas Caro and Mike Walgosh, UBC Precipitation to Pandemonium: Flooding and Socio-­‐Political Instability in Pakistan Justin S Blotsky, Western Washington Why Drive South For Milk: A Study in Cross-­‐Border Dairy Farming Justin Riley Wagenaar and Dominic Wong, King’s University College Is There a Bridge Over Troubled Waters? A comparative analysis of rules and regulations for the storage and transportation of chemicals in West Virginia and Alberta Kara Shirley Letain and Kathryn Binnema, King’s University College What the Duck? A case study focusing on controversy surrounding current and past intentions of Ducks Unlimited Canada. Karina Dracott, UVic The Cowichan Estuary: Examining the Role of Environmental Stewardship Groups in Community-­‐Based Conservation Kyle R Hodder, Evan Matthew Kraemer and Dena McMartin For How Long Is Irrigation A Viable Adaptive Strategy To Future Drought in Southern Saskatchewan? Libby Catherine Marie Griffin, UFV An example of the importance of using multiple dating methods, Calvert Island, British Columbia. Lindsay Marie James, UVic An examination of the extent of large woody debris on select beaches on southern Vancouver Island using GIS interpretation of historical aerial photographs Manuel Bringue, Vera Pospelova and David B. Field, UVic High resolution dinoflagellate cyst record of decadal variability and 20th century warming in the Santa Barbara Basin, California 12 Marco G. Jorge and Tracy A. Brennand, SFU Comparison of two new techniques for the semi-­‐automated extraction of subglacial longitudinal bedform footprints from DEMs: towards a reproducible and scalable method. Marie-­Josée J Valiquette, King’s University College Edmonton’s dirty past: what can we learn from old dumps in new parks? Michelle C Gunnlaugson, TRU Landscapes of Fear and Associated Feminine Perceptions: Thompson Rivers University Campus Nurmaiya Brady, U of A The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee: an in-­‐depth exploration of local implementation of a national scheme Rachel Schott, UBC Disappearing Night Skies: Strategies for Further Mitigation of Light Pollution Stephen Swales, Mary Makar and Wayne Forsythe, Ryerson Comparative Analysis of Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) in Canada, the U.K., and South Africa Teunesha Evertse, VIU Ucluelet: walkability and green design in a tourist commercial community Thuy Pham, Kwantlen Food insecurity in Canada: assessing Canadian responses to the food situation in northern Canada Trina Irene Lamanes, U of A Recreation and long term social sustainability in a resource based community: A Fort McMurray case study Yida Lin, UBC UBC as City: Myth or Reality? 13