Oct 25, 2018
10:00AM to 12:30PM
Faculty members and community experts connected with the MacMarsh initiative will present views on the challenges and benefits of restoring a wetland marsh on west campus Parking Lot M. This three-part panel will reflect on the past, present and future of the wetland marsh.
Open to the public. No registration required. A public reception and student art exhibition in the Wilson Hall Atrium will follow the presentation.
Panelists:
Randy Kay (Restore Cootes)
Tys Theysmeyer (Head of Natural Lands, Royal Botanical Gardens)
Ken Cruikshank (Dean of Humanities, moderator)
Logan MacDonald (School of the Arts/ Indigenous perspective)
Susan Dudley (Biology – buffer and bioswales)
Wayne Terryberry (Nature at McMaster, moderator)
Jim Quinn (Biology – fish and birds)
Patricia Johanson (Hooker Visiting Scholar, landscape architect, artist)
Mike Waddington (Geography and Earth Science – hydrology)
Nancy Doubleday (Peace Studies)
This event is a part of Paradise Revisited series. McMaster University’s natural lands and environs are the setting for an ambitious, multi-facted, six-month-long initiative which welcomes faculty, staff, students and community members to re-acquaint themselves with our rich landscape
Activities include field trips, panel discussions, lectures, readings, art activities and exhibitions. Participants are provided with sketchbooks to document their observations; and these sketchbooks will be shared at a showcase on October 25.
