Jennifer Bonnell is a historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, where she teaches courses in Canadian, environmental and public history.She is the author of “Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley” and the editor, with Marcel Fortin, of “Historical GIS Research in Canada.” She is currently working on a new book project, titled “Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honeybees, Agricultural Modernization and Environmental Change in the Great Lakes Region.”

Soren Brothers is the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change at the Royal Ontario Museum. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Soren’s research examines the effects of climate change on lakes, and how changes in aquatic systems can influence their greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. More broadly, he is interested in understanding how feedback loops and the transdisciplinary study of lakes can help us better understand and predict global tipping points that may accelerate anthropogenic climate change.

Shannon Baker, OALA, RPP is Project Director, Parks and Public Realm for the Port Lands Flood Protection project at Waterfront Toronto. Her practice has involved concrete and speculative work across Canada and internationally, and has always been situated at the intersection of landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Throughout her career, Shannon has led projects that explore the past and present of the landscape, examining cultural uses in relationship to ecological systems through the lenses of current design philosophy and emerging technologies. The context of a site is always her point of departure, serving as inspiration and framing all her work. Shannon holds an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Guelph, and a masters degree in urban design studies from the University of Toronto.

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