Community Monitoring the
focus of the Coalition-SGSL’s AGM
06/05/2010
The Southern Gulf of St.Lawrence Coalition on
Sustainability’s Annual General Meeting of the
Membership will include a focus on presenting and discussing
community monitoring programs in the region. The event is hosted by
the Gulf Aquarium and Marine Station Cooperative in
beautiful Chéticamp, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on June 11 and
12 2010. It will bring together members from across the region to
share the experiences of the past year and light the way forward
for the coming year.
On the agenda is a look at results from seven years of community
aquatic monitoring as well as a panel presentation on coastal
erosion monitoring. Participants that currently are members of
volunteer groups will also have extra time to discuss where to
focus their collaborative efforts in the present and future, and
how to include climate change adaptation as a mainstay of their
group effort. Those not already in groups will have the opportunity
to join or discuss potential themes for new groups.
Everyone is invited to attend!. For
registration, accommodation and program information visit the
AGM section
of the Coalition-SGSL’s website or email admin@coalition-sgsl.ca.
The Coalition-SGSL’s new
office!
22/04/2010
On April 20, 2010, the Coalition-SGSL moved to its
new premises in the pavilion Irène Léger of the
Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan. We are happy to
begin a new relationship with the Shippagan Campus.
Pictures of our new head office!
Our new address is:
Southern Gulf of St.Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability
047B PIL, Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan
218, boul. J.-D.-Gauthier
Shippagan, N.-B. E8S 1P6
The Coalition-SGSL involved in five year
coastal communities and research
alliance.
07/04/2010
Moncton, April 7 2010 — The Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has discerned a one million
dollar grant to Mr. Steve Plante, professor of regional
development at the Université du Québec à
Rimouski, and partners. This grant was obtained through an
application to the Communities — Universities Research
Alliance (CURA) to address major Canadian environmental issues
grant of SSHRC. This CURA - Challenges of coastal communities of
the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence at a time of climate
change will “permit us to undertake a dynamic research
program over the course of five years that will consider the
realities of partners and researchers involved in this
adventure” sais Mr. Plante. The direction of this project is
assumed by Professor Steve Plante of l’UQAR and Ms.
Chantal Gagnon of the Southern Gulf of St.Lawrence Coalition
on Sustainability. Ms. Gagnon sees this CURA as « an
excellent opportunity for recognition of the expertise present in
organisations concerned about water management and coastal risks
through the development of tools that will accompany communities
needing to adapt”. This dual leadership assumed by a
university member and a community member ensures a greater
territorial anchoring of the work to be
undertaken.
