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Media Features

In addition to the features below, please check out my blog series as part of Dalhousie University's OpenThink program.

 

If you are a journalist reporting on environmental topics, don't hesitate to contact me!

Ecological forestry brings hope to the Wabanaki forest

Article | Saltwire

November 2024

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Image credit: Aaron Burden, 2019

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Fining big polluters can reduce environmental damage, but only if the fines match the crimes

Article & interview feature | The Conversation Canada

April 2024

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Western mining boom puts salmon species at risk, study* warns

Interview feature | Globe and Mail

July 2022

* Sergeant, C. J., Sexton, E. K., Moore, J. W., Westwood, A. R., Nagorski, S. A., Ebersole, J. L., ... & Skuce, N. (2022). Risks of mining to salmonid-bearing watersheds. Science Advances, 8(26), eabn0929. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn0929.

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Image credit: Chris Sergeant, 2021

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Image credit: Ben Nelms, 2023

Canada risks falling behind in aquatic science research when graduate students and postdocs aren't paid a living wage

Article | Society for Canadian Aquatic Sciences Newsletter

June 2023

A community transformed from mining town to resort destination. It doesn’t want to go back

Interview feature | The Narwhal

August 2023

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Image credit: Louis Bockner, 2023

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Environmental safeguards at B.C. mines are being eroded by amendments, study* says

Interview feature | CBC News, Globe and Mail, Global News, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, others

May 2022

* Collison, B. R., Reid, P. A., Dvorski, H., Lopez, M. J., Westwood, A. R., & Skuce, N. (2022). Undermining environmental assessment laws: post-assessment amendments for mines in British Columbia, Canada, and their potential impacts on water resources. FACETS, 7(1), 611-638. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0106

Private land logging: impacts on Elk Valley ecosystem*

Interview feature | Wildsight Blog & Newsletter

May 2021

* Collison, B. R. (2021). Private managed forest: A case study and spatial analysis of logging exploitation in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Prepared for Wildsight. 42pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33081.49765.

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Image credit: Bailey Repp, 2019

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