Research Policies
There are barriers, obstacles, and gatekeeping practices that create challenges for many people to succeed in scientific spaces. Our research team firmly believes that producing strong and ethically-based research requires actively engaging in ways to dismantle systems of exclusion and in centering voices of those that have historically been excluded from STEM fields.
Our goal is to breakdown barriers, obstacles, and gatekeeping practices by fostering an inclusive, equitable environment that creates a positive space to support and nurture the growth of a diversity of critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and strong communicators so that they can personally grow and gain the skills necessary to contribute to solving the environmental challenges we face as a society.
Our goal is to breakdown barriers, obstacles, and gatekeeping practices by fostering an inclusive, equitable environment that creates a positive space to support and nurture the growth of a diversity of critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and strong communicators so that they can personally grow and gain the skills necessary to contribute to solving the environmental challenges we face as a society.
Guiding principles and values
Our research team is unique in that all graduate students are physically based out of a university through their co-supervisor's lab but our research team is mainly based virtually and at field sites where the focus is on learning and providing equitable training opportunities to learn field, computational, and writing skills relevant for a wide variety of jobs within the public, private, non-profit and academic sectors.
As the leader of this team, my role is to teach and support you through your learning and scientific training journey. I am not your boss, but think of my role more as a mentor, coach, and sometimes cheerleader helping to guide your learning, and scientific growth. I am open to working with anyone that is motivated by our team's values, the way we address research questions, how we work, and our team's structure and community.
Our research team consists of myself as team leader or principle investigator, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and numerous seasonal technicians. Our team also extends to several of my colleagues at ECCC who I work closely with and most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will have opportunities for interaction. Additionally, most students have community-based or non-profit partners that provide further opportunities for networking and building meaningful and impactful research questions.
Team members work on a variety of different projects, mainly focused within my main research mandates. Team members have a mix of funding sources, some are paid directly through my operational funds at ECCC, while others are paid via grants or other funds raised by either myself, a co-supervisor, or the student or postdoc themselves. If we don't have funds for a student or project, I, as Principle Investigator, will help students find and apply for funding. There is of course no guarantees, but success rates are often quite good.
Some of our team's student projects have strong collaborations with a specific academic supervisor, other projects are more open to matching the project, person, and university with the right supervisor. As principle investigator if you are interested in working with our team, as a first step we meet and discuss your interests, values, and goals and then work together to develop the project and identify an appropriate co-supervisor.
We are committed to learning from each other and every team member will have a diversity of opportunities to learn. Many students will be work together on similar projects with opportunities to learn together and from each other. Every team member will have regular opportunities for 1 on1 (typically every 1-2 weeks) and/or meetings with both myself and/or the other co-supervisor, and time spent engaging with the myself in the field or virtually depending on the project.
Our research team recognizes we are more than just scientists, and value the time we spend enriching our lives outside of our scientific endeavours. Team members are strongly encouraged not to work weekends and to limit their working time to a reasonable work week of 30-40 hrs/wk when not conducting time sensitive fieldwork. Field seasons and field work provides opportunities to strategize and think of how we can maximize the amount of data collected while also ensuring we accommodate our individual needs by, for instance, receiving adequate rest based on own body's, personal, mental health needs.
We as a group acknowledge that we live, work, and play on the traditional territories of First Nations.
We recognize it is up to us as a group to create and maintain Safe Spaces and environments where everyone can be accepted and appreciated.
We appreciate and embrace uniqueness of each other and ourselves
We are neurodiverse and/or LGTBQIAS + or allies
We will listen, learn, grow, and acknowledge our mistakes even if doing so is uncomfortable or challenging
We live by the principles that life and our mental health come first and science comes after our life and personal needs are first met
As the leader of this team, my role is to teach and support you through your learning and scientific training journey. I am not your boss, but think of my role more as a mentor, coach, and sometimes cheerleader helping to guide your learning, and scientific growth. I am open to working with anyone that is motivated by our team's values, the way we address research questions, how we work, and our team's structure and community.
Our research team consists of myself as team leader or principle investigator, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and numerous seasonal technicians. Our team also extends to several of my colleagues at ECCC who I work closely with and most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will have opportunities for interaction. Additionally, most students have community-based or non-profit partners that provide further opportunities for networking and building meaningful and impactful research questions.
Team members work on a variety of different projects, mainly focused within my main research mandates. Team members have a mix of funding sources, some are paid directly through my operational funds at ECCC, while others are paid via grants or other funds raised by either myself, a co-supervisor, or the student or postdoc themselves. If we don't have funds for a student or project, I, as Principle Investigator, will help students find and apply for funding. There is of course no guarantees, but success rates are often quite good.
Some of our team's student projects have strong collaborations with a specific academic supervisor, other projects are more open to matching the project, person, and university with the right supervisor. As principle investigator if you are interested in working with our team, as a first step we meet and discuss your interests, values, and goals and then work together to develop the project and identify an appropriate co-supervisor.
We are committed to learning from each other and every team member will have a diversity of opportunities to learn. Many students will be work together on similar projects with opportunities to learn together and from each other. Every team member will have regular opportunities for 1 on1 (typically every 1-2 weeks) and/or meetings with both myself and/or the other co-supervisor, and time spent engaging with the myself in the field or virtually depending on the project.
Our research team recognizes we are more than just scientists, and value the time we spend enriching our lives outside of our scientific endeavours. Team members are strongly encouraged not to work weekends and to limit their working time to a reasonable work week of 30-40 hrs/wk when not conducting time sensitive fieldwork. Field seasons and field work provides opportunities to strategize and think of how we can maximize the amount of data collected while also ensuring we accommodate our individual needs by, for instance, receiving adequate rest based on own body's, personal, mental health needs.
We as a group acknowledge that we live, work, and play on the traditional territories of First Nations.
We recognize it is up to us as a group to create and maintain Safe Spaces and environments where everyone can be accepted and appreciated.
We appreciate and embrace uniqueness of each other and ourselves
We are neurodiverse and/or LGTBQIAS + or allies
We will listen, learn, grow, and acknowledge our mistakes even if doing so is uncomfortable or challenging
We live by the principles that life and our mental health come first and science comes after our life and personal needs are first met
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