A5045094286- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Water resources management and optimization
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Community Health and Development
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
University of Saskatchewan
2016-2025
Health Canada
2025
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2024
Global Institute for Water Security
2021-2024
The use of plastic products or components in medical equipment and supplies results challenges terms environmental sustainability waste management for disposable, non-recyclable, non-biodegradable materials. Medical includes items ranging from syringes, tubing, intravenous (IV) bags, packaging, more. Developing biodegradable replacements to petroleum-based plastics has not yet become an urgent priority, but it is important endeavor. Examining alternatives involves several key themes,...
Globally, harmful algal blooms (HABs) are on the rise, as is evidence of their toxicity. The impacts associated with blooms, however, vary across Nation states, do strategies and protocols to assess, monitor, manage occurrence. In Canada, water quality guidelines standardized nationally, but management for HABs not. Here, we explore current understand how better communicate risks public. Our team conducted an environmental scan provincial territorial government agency around HABs. Results...
Understanding the mechanisms by which environmental chemicals cause toxicity is necessary for effective human health risk assessment. High-Throughput Transcriptomics (HTTr) can be used to inform assessment on toxicological mechanisms, hazards, and potencies. We applied HTTr elucidate molecular Per- Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) liver perturbations. contrasted transcriptomic profiles of PFOA, PFBS, PFOS, PFDS against from established liver-toxic non-toxic reference compounds, alongside...
Abstract Transdisciplinary researchers collaborate with diverse partners outside of academia to tackle sustainability problems. The patterns and practices social interaction the contextual nature transdisciplinary research result in different performance expectations than traditional, curiosity-driven research. Documenting can inform project success affirm progress toward interim outcomes on way achieve impacts. Yet providing credible robust indicators activity remains challenging. We...
ObjectiveTo present the co-creation of a whiteboard animation video, an enhanced e-storytelling technique for relaying traditional knowledge interview results as narratives.DesignWe design translating into script and accompanying series figures, followed by technical steps to create product.MethodOur project used content analysis researcher triangulation, collaborative process develop animated video disseminate research findings. A 13-minute long was produced from study about changing...
A challenge for transdisciplinary sustainability science is learning how to bridge diverse worldviews among collaborators in respectful ways. temptation work focus on improving scientific practices rather than engage research partners spaces that mutually respect we learn from each other and set the stage change. We used concept of Nicolescu's "Hidden Third" identify operationalize this transformative space, because it focused bridging "objective" "subjective" through art. Between 2014 2017,...
Drinking water security is a serious issue for many First Nations reserve communities in Canada. Over the last decade, CAD $2 billion has been invested to improve situation by way of several key policies. Though action plans have developed, expert panels struck and commissioned assessments occurred, little progress reported, on-reserve suffering through drinking emergencies continue be featured media. This paper presents an evidence-based critical analysis federal policies related on lands,...
The provision of safe drinking water is a key driver public health and pressing issue facing First Nations communities in Canada. Contaminated perennial for reserve across the country despite numerous government investments. Many rely heavily on cistern use their supply; however, bacterial contamination within these systems frequent common reason household boil advisories. sources during process hauling to cisterns have received limited attention academic research. purpose this research...
Water is essential for human development and the environment; however, its security challenged by factors such as competing uses, over extraction, divergent perspectives. The focus of this paper to better understand how different stakeholders define water in South Saskatchewan River Basin, a large (121,095 km2) transboundary basin that exemplifies global challenges. Understanding perceptions held stewards across multiple jurisdictions working public, private, civil society sectors critical...
Water-related health challenges on First Nations reserves in Canada have been previously documented. Our objective was to describe factors associated with self-reported effects from tap water 8 reserve communities Saskatchewan, Canada. Community-based participatory approaches were used designing and implementing cross-sectional household surveys. Individual, household, community, contextual considered multilevel analysis. Negative reported by 28% of households (n = 579). Concerns about...
Abstract The Saskatchewan River Delta is the largest inland freshwater delta in North America. has been inhabited by humans for at least 7,000 years, but this complex social-ecological system disrupted reduced water and sediment flows due to upstream resource development. To follow up on previous on-land participant observations semi-structured interviews that documented changes delta, a two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic HEC-RAS model was set collaboratively determine future scenarios. domain...
This study complements the existing literature on disparities associated with Indigenous and non-Indigenous small drinking water systems. The team took a quantitative approach assessed relationships between seasonality, location, type of community against number advisories in Saskatchewan for 4-year period from 2012 to 2016. Generalised estimating equations were used determine significant factors contributing likelihood comparing communities similar sizes. Results indicated that season...
Key Messages We facilitated an opportunity for on‐reserve youth to share perspectives on water and health. Aesthetics, pollution, technological treatment, the ubiquitous need emerged from Postervoice methodology. Encouraging be involved in lateral exchanges control their collective future by protecting resources contributes cultural resilience.
Indigenous community members along the Slave River in Canada have voiced their concerns for health of ecosystems under pressure from resource extraction, hydroelectric development and global climate change. We present a test case traditional knowledge scientific results about spawning migration patterns fish Delta. This dual system approach elucidates broader connectivity local study regions can improve monitoring programmes by extending beyond usual context/confines or recent past,...
Agriculture is practiced on 3–4 million acres of First Nations reserve lands in the Saskatchewan Prairies—predominantly by non-Indigenous farmers. A confluence factors including an increase agricultural land holdings and greater autonomy management have renewed conversations how can realize full economic benefits exert control over activities that affect base. We hosted a Forum Indigenous to share current knowledge contemporary status agriculture co-formulate research, capacity building,...