World on fire

In the spring of 2023, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s celebrated its best-ever showing in the , finishing third in the world and first in North America when it comes to making progress toward the . It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s an impressive showing, considering that the field included more than 1,700 universities. But what exactly does it mean?

There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in total 카지노 게임 컬렉션� including everything from eradicating hunger to achieving gender equality to finding affordable clean energy sources. All of the U.N. member states have committed to achieving them by 2030. 

Principal Patrick Deane described the SDGs as a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�rallying point카지노 게임 컬렉션� that will enable the university to become a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�university for the future카지노 게임 컬렉션� and achieve its vision of being a community dedicated to solving 카지노 게임 컬렉션�the world카지노 게임 컬렉션�s most significant and urgent challenges.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

is just one example of what such a rallying point can look like 카지노 게임 컬렉션� we sent writer Jordan Whitehouse there to tell its story.

The place has always been a living lab for researchers and students with questions big and small about ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental science.

The rain has finally stopped as I pull onto the long gravel road just past the hamlet of Chaffey카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Lock. A dozen wild turkeys skirt into the bush. 

Winding through thick coniferous and deciduous forest, the road soon passes an experimental collection of invasive plants in small Plexiglas domes. Further on are fishing boats and a man on an orange tractor motoring past, giving a wave. 

Eventually, the road ends and opens onto a clearing on the north shore of Lake Opinicon. The sun pokes through the trees, shimmering everything in green, as about 30 buildings come into view. Some are cottages and bunkies, one of which welcomed a Giller Prize-winning novelist last summer. Others contain research labs, teaching spaces, and conference rooms. There is also a workshop, a library, a boathouse, and an herbarium containing over 140,000 plant specimens. 

Welcome to the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 Biological Station (QUBS). 

QUBS (pronounced 카지노 게임 컬렉션�cubes카지노 게임 컬렉션�) has been here since 1945, though the property is a lot bigger now than in those early years. These days, dense forest, nine lakes, and the rocky crags of the Canadian Shield run for about 3,400 hectares. 

The place has always been a living lab for researchers and students with questions big and small about ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental science. Now, of course, a major focus is the rapidly changing planet. 

Yet while biologists make up most of QUBS카지노 게임 컬렉션� users, over the past decade more non-biologists have been showing up 카지노 게임 컬렉션� some of them with the same concerns about climate change and human assaults on the environment as the biologists. 

The heartbeat of all this is the Raleigh J. Robertson Biodiversity Centre. QUBS카지노 게임 컬렉션� administrative staff have their offices here, but this is also where students, researchers, and other visitors eat together in the large dining room, forging the type of connections that make QUBS tick. Today, QUBS Director and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Biology Professor meets me on one of the centre카지노 게임 컬렉션�s two screened porches. 

Stern but frequently flashing a smile, Dr. Lougheed wears dark glasses, an aqua blue T-shirt, hiking pants and shoes. Over the next couple of hours out here and on a tour, he tugs on his grey beard and talks all things QUBS 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the history, the geography, the infrastructure, the mandate, the future. 

But one theme he returns to a few times is the collaboration that happens here and the importance of working together to address the environmental crisis. 

Not everyone at QUBS is focused on that crisis, but many are. About 50 per cent of the researchers working at QUBS are from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, but the rest are from institutions elsewhere in Canada and around the world. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�That is really important, because no single university has all the answers,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Lougheed. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�And so, what that does is create a really convivial, dynamic intellectual atmosphere where there카지노 게임 컬렉션�s lots of cross-pollination of ideas.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

He points to one of his own recent research projects as an example. It includes people from the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto, the Invasive Species Centre, Thousand Islands National Park, the River Institute, the First Nations Technical Institute, and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Environment Program. Using state-of-the-art environmental DNA tools, researchers can get a more accurate picture of all the species that live in a body of water than if they used more traditional methods. One application of these tools could allow municipalities to see exactly where invasive species are and aren카지노 게임 컬렉션�t so that preventative measures can be put in place. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�If you want to move the needle on sustainability, if you want to move the needle on buy-in, if you want people to be involved directly and feel proprietary about a space, then you must embrace all these vantages. And that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s what we try to do.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Another theme Dr. Lougheed returns to are those non-biologist visitors to QUBS. Geographers, engineers, health-care workers, visual artists, writers, and many others have used this space. About a month ago, for instance, a group of doctoral students from a variety of disciplines and from across Ontario were here for an annual thesis writing retreat. Next year, a U.K. artist will be an artist-in-residence. 

In a Zoom chat, Dr. Lougheed told me this cross-disciplinary and collaborative focus has been something he has always tried to encourage at QUBS, but especially now. Why? In short, he said, because the world is on fire 카지노 게임 컬렉션� both literally and metaphorically 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and we need everyone카지노 게임 컬렉션�s help to put it out. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�If you want to move the needle on sustainability, if you want to move the needle on buy-in, if you want people to be involved directly and feel proprietary about a space, then you must embrace all these vantages. And that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s what we try to do.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

One of those non-biologist users is Laura Thomson, an assistant professor in Geography and Planning at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s and the . This isn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t where you would normally expect to find a glaciologist, and yet this winter Dr. Thomson could be spending a lot more time around here. 

Her research usually takes her to Nunavut, where she uses tools like ground-penetrating radar and automatic weather stations to understand how and why the Arctic is changing. But she needs a place to test some of those tools before she heads north, and the undisturbed snowpack and lake ice at QUBS could be the perfect place to do that. 

QUBS could also be the ideal place for understanding the impact of a changing climate right here, she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Snow doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t get a lot of attention in this part of the world, but as snow changes, understanding the cascading effects of that could be very important. What does that mean for ecology, for instance? I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m not an ecologist, but I think this is one area where the potential for collaboration exists.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�There is so much potential for multidisciplinary collaboration at QUBS, and that is so important when we talk about Earth as a system and issues like climate change.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Another area could be related to the solar-powered climate stations set up across the property. This fall, Dr. Thomson plans to bring geography graduate students to QUBS to work on developing an annual climate report that could be used by ecologists to understand the changes happening here. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�There is so much potential for multidisciplinary collaboration at QUBS, and that is so important when we talk about Earth as a system and issues like climate change,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Thomson. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Most solutions don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t exist in individuals. They come through collaboration and thinking laterally, outside the box. That카지노 게임 컬렉션�s how you push the envelope, you grow.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

is one ecologist who might benefit from the climate data Dr. Thomson카지노 게임 컬렉션�s students would synthesize. He is an associate professor of evolutionary ecology and ecological genomics at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, where his research focuses on how species respond to environmental change. Right now, he is looking at invasive plants, ticks, and tick-borne diseases, and asking how some of them thrive so well. 

Those small Plexiglas domes I drove by earlier are part of Dr. Colautti카지노 게임 컬렉션�s plant experiments. Inside are two notorious invaders, garlic mustard and dog-strangling vine. He also has an even larger experimental site of perhaps the most famous plant invader in North America, purple loosestrife. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�This is the kind of scale that you can카지노 게임 컬렉션�t really do without a field station like this,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Colautti. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�You can only get so far with a lab experiment. At some point, you actually have to get outside and see what카지노 게임 컬렉션�s happening.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Last year, Dr. Colautti and his colleagues published a paper that combined data from that purple loosestrife site with records from the and similar records from other herbaria across the continent. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Basically, what we found is that as purple loosestrife spread across North America, it evolved changes in flowering that match the local climate,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Colautti. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�In other words, the genetic changes allowed them to spread into new climates.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�You can only get so far with a lab experiment. At some point, you actually have to get outside and see what카지노 게임 컬렉션�s happening.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a somewhat similar story with ticks. As the climate has warmed, ticks like the Lyme disease-carrying black-legged species have spread north. But one thing researchers don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t know much about is how the ticks카지노 게임 컬렉션� microbes have changed as the environment has changed. 

Recently, however, using ticks found at QUBS, Dr. Colautti카지노 게임 컬렉션�s team showed that new genomic technologies can be used to see not only more microbes than by using traditional methods, but also microbes they may not have known were there in the first place. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�So, now the idea is to expand our sample and start looking for new things that might be moving into Canada with the ticks as the climate continues to change,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Colautti. 

Although he didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t know it at the time, Omar El Akkad, Comp카지노 게임 컬렉션�05, could have played a minor role in Dr. Colautti카지노 게임 컬렉션�s tick research. The journalist and Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novelist was at the station last summer for QUBS카지노 게임 컬렉션� month-long writer-in-residence program. At one point, a student introduced herself. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�She said she worked with ticks and asked if I wanted to help out,카지노 게임 컬렉션� remembers Mr. El Akkad. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션�Isn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t Lyme disease a concern?카지노 게임 컬렉션� I asked. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Yes, absolutely,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she said. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Do you want to come out?카지노 게임 컬렉션� And I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m like, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Um, no not really.카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

Mr. El Akkad laughs about the interaction now, but he did end up exploring the property with QUBS researchers, albeit at a safe distance. Later, for instance, he hopped onto a UTV and then into a boat with Dr. Lougheed, who was fixing a few of the climate stations. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It was just an overall terrific experience to be there,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Just a beautiful, gorgeous property.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션� a lot of writing is just about not doing anything else, and so the negative space that was provided for me at QUBS was the biggest component of getting that work done.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

But it was also a productive experience, he says. From his lodging, in one of QUBS카지노 게임 컬렉션� bunkies, Mr. El Akkad would head to the dining hall after everyone had gone to bed. There, as the raccoons and red foxes awoke outside, he would write the first 20,000 words of his next novel. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�For me, that is a huge number,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But a lot of writing is just about not doing anything else, and so the negative space that was provided for me at QUBS was the biggest component of getting that work done.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

It did help that he was at QUBS in particular. That novel will be an extrapolation of where the climate is headed as a result of what humans have done, he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�And so being in an environment where people are talking about the shifts they are seeing from the data they are collecting was hugely impactful. It was the perfect place for me to start on this novel.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Back on the screened porch of the biodiversity centre, a pine siskin chirps above Dr. Lougheed. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�That카지노 게임 컬렉션�s odd,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�You usually see them here in the winter, but it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s been an unusual year.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Before we head out on a tour of the property, I ask him about his earlier Zoom comment about the world being on fire and needing everyone카지노 게임 컬렉션�s help to put it out. 

He takes a rare pause. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�We need more people to be more literate about the way ecosystems function,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�When you think about community ecology, you카지노 게임 컬렉션�re talking about trying to understand how thousands of individual species interact with one another 카지노 게임 컬렉션� microfungi, bacteria, viruses, plants, animals. And then when you say, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�OK, climate change is here and is continuing to come, let카지노 게임 컬렉션�s predict what카지노 게임 컬렉션�s going to happen.카지노 게임 컬렉션� That is probably one of the biggest challenges you could possibly imagine. But there are lots of people who are trying to wrestle with that. We카지노 게임 컬렉션�re doing that kind of work. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s hard, hard work. But we카지노 게임 컬렉션�re trying.카지노 게임 컬렉션�