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Beck, James A
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Forest Management,Timber Supply/Wildlife Habitat Modeling. Jim was one of the first two professors hired to start the forestry program at the U of A in 1971. He has taught forest measurements, field camp, forest policy, part of forest fire management, forest management, wildlife habitat supply modeling, introduction to surveying principles (GPS, GIS, Photogrametry and Photo Interpretation), and advanced courses in forest management and timber supply modeling, . He was chair of the Forest Science Department for 7 years between 1980 and 1989, and Chair of the Renewable Resources Department for 6 years between 1995 - 2001. He is a registered professional forester (#12) with the Alberta Registered Professional Foresters Association. His research interests lie in the area of Forest and Wildlife Habitat Modeling over time to insure Sustainable Forests for future generations.
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Butler, James R
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Conservation Biology, Parks, Wildlife, and Interpretation
As a conservation biologist and social scientist, he is active in the management and protection of threatened and declining wildlife species throughout the world. Working with the World Wildlife Fund and the IUCN (World Conservation Union), his research has taken him on projects to Europe, the Soviet Union, Indonesia, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa and China. He has worked with several state, provincial and federal agencies concerned with parks and wildlife in the United States and Canada. His research efforts in recent years have focused on wildlife users, eco-tourism and changing trends in wildland recreation. |
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Cox-Bishop, Marlene
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Dr. Cox-Bishop is an artist, designer and educator. She creates works of art on textiles and on paper. Her creative works include paintings on rice paper using textile-related production tools and processes. They are closely influenced by Japanese woodblock artists and French painters. Her textiles and paintings are housed in public and private collections in the United States and Canada.
Enhancement of the built environment and individual well being can be facilitated through creation of works of art and design. Dr. Cox-Bishop's creative investigations relate to the development of visual literacy in others and of visual communication skills as they affect our lives. Here creativity is seen as process as well as product.
Dr. Cox-Bishop has travelled with graduate students to conduct fieldwork and to collect textile artifacts in Japan, India and Africa. Her students have won prizes for textile designs in competitions sponsored by the International Textile and Apparel Association.
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Crown, Elizabeth
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Dr. Betty Crown's research on protective clothing focuses on creating healthy and safe human environments through the use of clothing. Conceptualizing clothing as environment facilitates a holistic approach to design and evaluation of clothing in general, and protective clothing in particular, incorporating textile science, apparel science (both physiological and behavioural components), functional design and consumer behaviour.
Dr. Crown's research on thermal protective clothing focuses on design and evaluation of clothing to protect industrial, military and firefighting personnel in such events as flash fires and airplane crashes, and includes evaluation of the static electrical properties of protective clothing systems. Her work on chemical protective clothing focuses on design and evaluation of clothing for protection of workers against pesticides and other agricultural chemicals, and includes clothing decontamination studies. More recently, Dr. Crown has joined colleagues in the study of clothing as protection against ultraviolet radiation. Dr. Crown's research has contributed substantially to the publication of several standard test methods and to the development of national and international performance standards for protective clothing.
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Davidson, Debra J
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State theory and environmental policy; globalization; natural resource conflicts, particularly involving indigenous peoples; sociology of risk.
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Ellis, Shirley
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Shirley Ellis is a practising conservator with a focus in textiles where she runs the Textile Conservation fee-for-service.
Shirley teaches preventive conservation and textile conservation practice where the Clothing and Textiles Collection provides many opportunities for learning. Research activities have centred on emergency preparedness and disaster planning for museums, as well as salvage techniques for water damaged textiles.
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Fast, Janet
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Dr. Fast researches family and consumer policy issues. A major theme is the paid and unpaid work of family members. She is currently investigating the consequences of recent health and social policy reform for family caregivers, and the productive activities of older Canadians during the transition to retirement. She also has documented dramatic changes in women's labour force participation and employment continuity over time, and investigated the ability of "family friendly" workplace policies to help Canadians better balance paid work and family demands. She is frequently asked to provide expert testimony about the economic value of unpaid work in wrongful death, personal injury and child and spousal support cases.
Dr. Fast also researches consumers' pre-purchase information search and processing. Most recently this involved collaboration with graduate students on an investigation of the ability of plain language consumer information to enhance consumers' comprehension of financial agreements, and on development of a survey instrument for evaluating client satisfaction with residential long term care services.
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Keating, Norah
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Dr. Keating is a family gerontologist who is interested in issues faced by families as they grow older. She teaches in the areas of families and aging, older people and their environments, and family theory. Her research program is focussed on family caregiving and policies to support informal caregivers. She is interested in how families work out the process of caring for frail older members, and in how they interact with formal caregivers. Dr. Keating conducts policy research on caring issues such as shifting responsibility for caring from formal to informal caregivers and the impact of health policy reform on informal caregivers. She also has a longstanding interest in aging in rural Canada. Dr Keating is actively involved in professional gerontology organizations and in policy consultations with federal government departments and other stakeholder agencies.
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Kerr, Nancy
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Dr. Kerr's research interests include aspects of textile science and the conservation or preservation of historic textiles. The textile science research involves the investigation of structure-property relationships or the performance of textiles during use; for example, factors affecting the transmission of UV radiation through textiles. A recent interest is natural fibres such as flax and hemp, particularly how processing methods affect their properties and uses.
Conservation research focuses on how historic and archaeological textiles are degraded by treatment, storage and display conditions, and how degraded textiles may be stabilized. Recent projects by graduate students include the identification of highly degraded cellulosics, cleaning properties of new nonionic detergents, and the performance of adhesives used in textile conservation.
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Lambert, Anne
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Interests include historic and cross-cultural clothing and textiles, and museology.
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Munro, Brenda
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understand health behaviours in order to aid the development of prevention and treatment programs and to empower those involved in unpaid work through the recognition of its value. Dr. Munro is examining risky sexual behaviours, smoking, violent behaviour, alcohol, gambling and drug use of youth in order to identify educational and treatment needs. These behaviours are examined with reference to youth experiences with childhood sexual abuse, parent-child relationships, school performance and relationships, peers, health care providers' ethnicity and other social, situational and contextual variables.
household work, is unpaid, and thus is not as valued as paid labour force participation. The focus of research in this area is on quantifying and thus giving value to this unpaid work.
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Naeth, M Anne
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reclamation and revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, restoration ecology, vegetative reclamation, conservation, rangeland hydrology, native grassland restoration, plant ecology, ecology of disturbed ecosystems, succession, plant rooting patterns and distribution as affected by soil physical properties, and teaching and learning.
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Niessen, Sandra
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Dr. Sandra Niessen is an anthropologist concerned with clothing and textile traditions around the world, especially in Indonesia. She studies textile design, technology, dynamics of clothing change, and the circumstances of craft producers on the margins of the global economy. Dr. Niessen studies forces that compel indigenous producers to sell to tourist markets and the associated transformations in their cultures and symbols; forces that pull peasants out of villages and into sweatshops; the power of fashion advertising worldwide, particularly its effects on women; the history of museum collecting; and the struggle of fair trade organizations to mitigate the effects of 'business as usual' on textile producers. She and her students have conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, India, Australia, Indonesia, and Africa. Currently Dr. Niessen directs the Healthy Dyes Project focused on the health implications of textile dye use by small-scale weavers.
Dr. Niessen is co-director of the Eco-House and teaches courses related to sustainable lifestyles.
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Skrypnek, Berna
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Dr. Skrypnek's research focuses on factors affecting the quality of human relationships (particularly parent-child and intimate relationships) and their impact on individual well-being. Her interest is in the application of theory and research to the development of policies and programs that enhance the quality of family relationships and individual well-being. In ongoing research, she is investigating factors affecting the intergenerational transmission of parenting behavior, especially risk and compensatory factors related to child maltreatment. She also has investigated childhood sexual abuse, intergenerational patterns, the process of healing, and factors affecting functioning of adult survivors of abuse.
Dr. Skrypnek's research on the work-family interface has documented Canadian women's labor force behavior, identified families' problems in balancing work and family demands, and examined the impact of work and family policy on family members' abilities to successfully to balance work and family demands.
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Please note that the total of members' statistics may not equal the department/faculty
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