Charlotte Milne, Erica Crawford, and Vanessa Lueck co-led a ‘flood mapping best practices’ workshop at the Western Flood Mapping Conference in Calgary. Experts from across Western and Northern Canada gathered for in-depth discussions on flood mapping practices, challenges, and opportunities.
March, 16-18th, 2025
Stephanie Chang was invited to Delta, BC to the Coastal Tidal Gathering to talk about prioritizing critical infrastructure for regional flood resilience.
March, 13th, 2024.
Vanessa Lueck and Stephanie Chang provided key testimony to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. The testimony highlighted the impacts of climate change on critical infrastructure in the transportation and communications sectors, and the consequential impacts on their interdependencies.
February, 13th, 2024.
Charlotte Milne presented a talk for the Green College Resident Series entitled: There’s no such thing as a natural disaster: how we made floods the most damaging hazard in the world.
December, 4th, 2024
Julia Kidder was a co-creator of the community agreement questionnaire methodology & protocol with “Honouring our Grandmothers Healing Journey” lead artist Nadine Spence. This includes interviews, methodology and process outline for forming fair knowledge exchange partnerships with Indigenous communities as part of LWW project & doctoral research.
October 2023 – January 2024
Kees Lokman provided testimony to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. Articulating the importance of values and the impacts of climate change on critical infrastructure in the transportation and communications sectors.
November, 1st, 2023.
Julia Kidder conducted a literature review and co-authored this paper with Dr. Jessica Barudin. She participated in field visits and interviews connecting salmon conservation & Indigenous laws and water protection from Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw territories across British Columbia waters.
August, 2023
Tira Okamoto and Vanessa Lueck co-facilitated a “values card” activity which invited participants to reflect on their own adaptation values in a fun and interactive manner! Shaieree Cottar, Devon Jones, and Felicia Watterodt, were also in attendance presenting their own research findings.
June 11-15, 2023
Tira Okamoto presented her research findings during the 2023 PIBC Annual Conference in Sun Peaks,BC.
May, 31st, 2023
In response to the November floods, Kees Lokman and Deborah Carlson have joined an ad-hoc group that includes representatives from the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance, Watershed Watch, Resilient Waters, and Farmland Advantage to push the BC and Federal governments for Indigenous leadership in developing an integrated watershed flood management approach, as well as to prioritize projects (to be supported by the $5B in disaster relief funds made available) that will provide multiple benefits, reconnect floodplains to rivers, restore riverine habitat for salmon and other species at risk, and support sustainable livelihoods. This group has a number of meetings scheduled with members of different Ministries in February.
March, 2022