Learn about the perspectives, experiences, and career paths of our panel of speakers - spanning academia, government, consulting, and nonprofit - and come ask your questions about careers in the field of environment and sustainability!
Date and time
Thursday February 15, 2024
2:30 – 4 pm
KINE Rm 106
Speaker bios:
Dr. David Szanto is a freelance academic whose work spans food, food culture, and food systems. Past projects have focused on urban foodscapes, regional sustainability, colonial impacts on historic foodways, food and research-creation, and media and digital technology. He has teaching, research, and online development relationships with several institutions in Canada, Europe, and Australia and has written extensively on food, design, performance, and ecology. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal, Canadian Food Studies, host-producer of the podcast, Making a Meal of It, and co-editor of two open access textbooks, Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement and Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through lllustrative Vignettes. He is based in Montreal.
Dr. Kyla Tienhaara is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Economy and Environment. She has a joint appointment in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on the intersection between environmental governance and the economy. Prior to taking up her current position in 2018, she was based in Australia for ten years, holding various positions at the Australian National University and as Head of Research at Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
Dr. Christian Seiler is an Assistant Professor at the School of Environmental Studies. His research explores the role of the land surface in the global climate system under current and future conditions. By combining numerical modeling and global Earth observations, his work addresses questions that enhance our ability to predict how the terrestrial carbon cycle will respond to climate change. Much of his research supports the development of the Canadian Earth System Model. Before joining Queen's University, Christian worked as a research scientist for the federal government (Environment and Climate Change Canada). Prior to that, he served as a research climatologist for a not-for-profit climate services center (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium), and as a consultant for a non-governmental organization dedicated to nature conservation in Bolivia (Friends of Nature Foundation).