I learned about cottonwood trees as a Master's student in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. These riparian trees do extremely well on the riverbanks of North America, but the ecosystems in which they thrive require regular flooding from the river. Our small towns in the global economy are very much like the small ecosystems along the riverbanks; the river rushes by, and we are dependent on the overflow to keep going. How we manage that overflow is exceedingly … [Read more...]
Gregory (tim) Kelly, MRM is a PhD student in the Special Arrangement by Request program and a sponsored member of the Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematical and Computations Sciences (IRMACS) at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is currently coordinating a multi-site, multi-partner study on mathematical models of West Nile virus in bird populations. There is a profile of him at https://www.sfu.ca/grad-sar/StudentProfiles/timkelly.html