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Research Interests Poetic genres and forms; poetics of collaboration; community engaged poetics; creative nonfiction; short fiction; community engaged writing; literary aesthetics; literary history; interdisciplinary art practices; embodied poetics; disability aesthetics.

Research Interests Indigenous peoples and colonialism on the Northwest Coast in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries; social movements; environmental justice; political implications of cultural representation; inequality

Research Interests Environment and Society, Agriculture, Climate Changes and Impacts; Global food security, Sustainable agriculture, Climate impacts, Land use change

Research Interests Dr. Andrea Reid is an Indigenous fisheries scientist who employs community-based approaches and Indigenous research methodologies in her study of culturally significant fish and fisheries. Her freshwater and coastal research creates space for fishers, knowledge keepers, youth, and other community members to be full partners in the research process. Together, they investigate: (i) leading threats to aquatic ecosystems and their interactive effects for fish, people and place; (ii) consequences of fisheries-related stressors for fish and methods to ameliorate survival; (iii) Two-Eyed Seeing approaches to assessing aquatic ecosystem and fish health and evaluating associated changes through time and space; and (iv) Indigenous understandings and methodologies for effectively stewarding fish and waterways.

Research Interests Health and food literacy as situated practices, health promotion, and social justice in context of K-12 educational settings; home economics education, a teaching specialization whose content and practice is inherently linked to sustainable food systems

Research Interests Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Ecosystem services; Reforestation; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems; Historical ecology, especially reconstructing and assessing land-use legacies; Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services; Trade-offs between conservation & poverty alleviation

Research Interests Ecology, freshwater biology, food webs, streams

Research Interests Plant breeding; plant genetics; horticulture; roots; stress physiology, Plant breeding, intercrop interactions, nutrient use efficiency, root physiology, biotic/abtioic stressor

Research Interests Biological systems for treatment of extreme wastewaters; microbial fuel fells (MFC) as waste to energy applications for the agricultural industry; removal of arsenic friom mine drainage; sulphur oxidizing microbes and their effects on the environment (microbial deterioration of concrete and acid rock drainage); source water protection through best management practices