A guided “sound-walk” recording that can accompany you in the woods, the country or the city wherever you are in the world, Inose/Field Trip produced at the University of Guelph invites listeners to reflect deeply on the land we walk upon and the diverse living things we encounter.
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About 20 University of Guelph students, many in the University’s new bachelor of Indigenous environmental science and practice program (BIESP), waded into the Eramosa River this week for a hands-on experience of the life of water.
Sue Chiblow, who will become a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences (SES) as of Nov.1, co-led the “Water Is Life” excursion. An Anishinaabe woman and raised in Garden River First Nation, Chiblow said the students are learning to think about the environment through land-based learning that combines Indigenous and Western science.
Plans are underway to build on the grounds of the University of Guelph’s Arboretum a unique Indigenous research facility that is expected to be one of the first of its kind in Canada.
The new facility will be called Nokom’s House, from the Ojibway word for grandmother, “nokomis.” It will be a land-based learning space to be used by three Indigenous researchers, their students and collaborating Indigenous community members for research, engagement and ceremony.
Long before the University of Guelph’s Arboretum came into being, Attawandaron, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples lived on the land it occupies.
Now, numerous initiatives are under way to ensure that Indigenous knowledge systems are integral to the life of this significant green space in teaching, research and outreach.
Conflict between rich and poor over how to mitigate climate change can itself lead to more global warming – by as much as 0.7 degrees Celsius, according to a new study led by a University of Guelph scientist.
Using novel modelling, the research team identified some of the social processes that may increase polarization between these two income groups that leads to inaction when it comes to fighting climate change.
A project conceived by University of Guelph landscape architecture graduate students to install a single bench and tree on the grounds of Canadian hospitals as a respite for health-care workers continues to expand.
Since the inaugural One Bench One Tree project was unveiled in June 2021 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, where Canada’s first COVID-19 case was confirmed, the project has grown further.
Dillon Muldoon is an advocate for research and passionate about making a difference in agriculture and food systems. He works as the Research and Soil Health Program Coordinator at the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO), a non-profit organization based in Guelph, ON. We recently chatted with him about his role and the importance of farmer-led research.
Deus Mugabe, PhD candidate in the Department of Plant Agriculture, is researching Canadian soybean breeding and genetics with a twist.
He considers his approach to his PhD program a bit unconventional.
To the Anishinaabe people, a person in a forest is just one being among a great many beings, says Brad Howie, a University of Guelph graduate student and member of Nipissing First Nation in northeastern Ontario.
Howie will share his understanding of the Anishinaabe philosophy and science of our place in the natural world during a Saturday afternoon walk through Victoria Woods of the University’s Arboretum.
Growing up, my primary school would have a special day every year where students got to dress up as their future career choice. My peers would always show up to Career Day in polished outfits, with jovial expressions, ready and eager to answer the question, “What are you dressed as?” or “What do you want to be when you’re older?” In first through third grade, I remember not being too pressed to dress as anything serious because I had no idea what I wanted to do in the future. I was just enjoying the fun of it!