{"id":1491,"date":"2023-05-28T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/?page_id=1491"},"modified":"2023-05-28T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:11:34","slug":"at-ns-universities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/ns-gov\/at-ns-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"At NS Universities &#038; Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Drafting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no&#8221;forestry school&#8221; as such in NS. The only &#8220;English Faculty of Forestry in Atlantic Canada&#8221; is at UNB (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/academics\/programs\/forestry\/forestry.html\">UNB: Forestry<\/a>).<br \/>\nThere is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcft.ca\/\">Maritime College of Forest Technology<\/a> at UNB<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nscc.ca\/forest\/programs-and-courses\/index.asp\">Centre of Forest Innovation<\/a> at the NS Community College<\/p>\n<p>A lot of research on forests and forestry and related graduate and undergraduate degrees, classes etc occur at Dalhousie&#8217;s SRES (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/science\/sres.html\">School for Resource and Environmental Studies<\/a>), a lot of which was initiated by Profs Bill Freedman,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/science\/sres\/faculty-staff\/our-faculty\/karen-beazley.html\">Karen Beazley<\/a> (recently retired) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/science\/sres\/faculty-staff\/our-faculty\/peter-duinker.html\">Peter Duinker <\/a>(retired).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/science\/sres\/faculty-staff\/our-faculty\/alana-westwood.html\">Alan Westwood<\/a> is a recently hired prof. who conducts research on forest ecology; she is the <a href=\"https:\/\/researchns.ca\/2023\/05\/09\/dalhousie-forestry-research-team-receives-1-57-million-to-study-nova-scotian-forests\/\">lead researcher<\/a> for a recently awarded grant for the study of ecological aspects of forests and forestry in NS.  Consult their cvs for related research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/environmentalscience\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1500 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-28-at-8.49.01-AM-206x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-28-at-8.49.01-AM-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-28-at-8.49.01-AM.png 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a> The late (2015) <a href=\"https:\/\/ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub\/environmentalscience\/front-matter\/bill-freedman-an-appreciation\/\">Dr Bill Freedman<\/a> was a Dal Prof, cross-appointed at Dal SRES for many years, and conducted a lot of research related to forests and forestry in the Maritimes beginning circa 1981. The 6th Ed of his <a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/environmentalscience\/\">Environmental Science textbook<\/a> is available online and contains a lot of referenced descriptive text related to forests and forestry in NS and Canada (references up to 2015), e.g. view <a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/environmentalscience\/chapter\/chapter-23-environmental-effects-of-forestry\/\">Chapter 23 ~ Environmental Effects of Forestry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>A lot more to be compiled and added!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drafting There is no&#8221;forestry school&#8221; as such in NS. The only &#8220;English Faculty of Forestry in Atlantic Canada&#8221; is at UNB (see UNB: Forestry). There is also a Maritime College of Forest Technology at UNB There is a Centre of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/ns-gov\/at-ns-universities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1465,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1491\/revisions\/1511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}