Paula Anderson has a Master of Science in sustainable systems design. For the past 20 years, she has been incubating innovative sustainable agriculture and food system revitalization projects in the Kawartha Lakes Region of Ontario, such as the Peterborough Community Garden Network, By the Bushel Community Food Co-operative and Black Duck Wild Rice. She is a permaculturalist, an avid seed saver, urban maple tree tapper and manoomin harvester. She runs Sun Root Organics, an innovative small-scale urban/rural organic vegetable operation. She teaches in Trent University’s Indigenous Environmental Studies/Science Program as well as in the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Program, and is a Ph. D. candidate. 

 

Jack Imhof

National Biologist, Director of Conservation Ecology For Trout Unlimited Canada  

Jack has a B.Sc in Honours Biology and a M.Sc. in aquatic ecology from the University of Waterloo. He is a past-president of the Ontario Chapter of the American Fisheries Society and an adjunct professor in Integrative Biology and Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph and an adjunct professor in Biology at the University of Waterloo.

Jack has a strong interest and expertise in the field of restoration ecology and watershed and stream restoration. He is also interested and works with other disciplines exploring groundwater: surface water interactions, the relationship between channel morphology and fish habitat, watershed planning and management, and watershed-based fisheries management and implementation. He has taken part in the development of 8-10 watershed/sub watershed plans and has helped draft the guidelines for both watershed planning processes and for community-based fisheries management plans on a watershed basis. He is also one of the developers of the Natural Channel Systems initiative in Ontario and one of the developers of the Exceptional Waters Approach. 

 

Andrew McDonough

Andrew is a Ph. D Candidate at Trent University and is currently a Terrestrial Effects Scientist for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. Andrew’s research centres on biogeochemical processes such as eutrophication and phytotoxic effects on terrestrial ecosystems via air pollution in Ontario and the bituminous (oil) sands region of Alberta. Currently, his research has focused on plant and soil interactions with atmospheric fluoride, persistent organic pollutants, volatile organic compounds, heavy metals and insecticides.