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Jim Taylor FCSLA FASLA FCELA, is an invited keynote speaker for the IFLA Africa Symposium to be held from October 14 to 18, 2013 in Logos, Nigeria.  The symposium theme is People and Landscapes and will receive papers on environmental philosophy and theory; productive regional landscapes; urban landscapes; cultural landscapes; and politics, policies and landscape development.  Professor Taylor has served as the Chair of the IFLA Africa Committee responsible for advancing the profession on the continent. 

Nadia Amoroso, Adjunct Professor at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development and Co-Founder of Datascapes, will be teaching a one-week professional development credit course "Landscapes of Information - Mapping the Invisible" in Las Vegas, Nevada from August 3-9, 2013.  For more information please see vist the CELA website.

Nadia Amoroso, Adjunct Professor at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development and Co-Founder of Datascapes, will be teaching a one-week professional development credit course "Landscapes of Information - Mapping the Invisible" from August 3-9, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  For more information please see the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture website.

SEDRD faculty member, Helen Hambly, will be in the Democratic Republic of Congo in early July to collaborate with College d'Alfred's project "Makala Renouvelable-DRC" which works local partners in Ibi-village to support smallholder agriculture and forestry for poverty reduction. DRC has one of the lowest Gross Domestic Project (GDP) per capita in the world, but has some of Africa's most extensive natural resources.

Dr. Helen Hambly will present a paper entitled "Participatory and Citizen Approaches to Video-Mediated Communication for Social and Environmental Change in Rural and Northern Canada" to the practitioner's forum "Our Media" which leads the annual meeting of the International Association of Media and Communication Research held in Dublin, Ireland, June 23-29, 2013.

https://sites.google.com/site/ourmediaweb/noticias/omdublin2013

SEDRD Post-Doc, Dr. Ataharul Chowdhury presented his work at the 2013 SSHRC Congress.  Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, are widely used for community engagement, but in a presentation to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada during the SSHRC Congress on June 3, 2013, in Victoria, BC, results from his research suggest that social media for agri-food innovation in Ontario can be vastly improved.

The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) is known for its collaborations with community groups, rural organizations and associations. Providing a critical service for many in Ontario and across the world, the school is often sought out to perform research, evaluation and provide helpful data to enhance these groups’ offerings, services and program delivery. A great example of this service is a recent collaboration between SEDRD researchers and the Rural Ontario Institute to strengthen the programming of their Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP).

Ben O'Hara and Karen Landman recently published a sustainable landscape article entitled: "The 'burbs and the bees: Creating pollinator habitats." in Landscape Trades, May 2013 Vol. 35 No. 4. (page 28).

http://www.landscapetrades.com/archive

Nadia Amoroso, Adjunct Faculty at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, was featured in articles published in "IT Business News," on May 22, 2013, entitled "DataAppeal creates everyman tool for 3D geo-spatial data visualizations"  and the OALA Ground - Spring 2013 - Politics edition.

The University of Guelph Micro-Climate Pollinator Research Gardens are the basis for a collaborative research project with the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development, the NSERC-Canadian Pollination Initiative (CANPOLIN), and Rodger Tschanz, Manager of the University's Trial Gardens.

For more information please visit The Arboretum webpage Micro-Climate Pollinator Research Gardens.