Credits

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Contractor

Professor Ann Zimmerman

http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/PEOPLE/BIOG/zimma.html

Director of the Division of the Environment as well as a Professor in the Department of Zoology, where her research focuses on aquatic ecology. Professor Zimmerman is interested in the biogeochemical behaviour of freshwater ecosystems. In addition, she actively cooperates with ecologists inside and outside the University in a rather informal quest for practically oriented, holistic models of lake ecosystems that might prove useful in efforts to rehabilitate lake ecosystems and conserve aquatic community biodiversity. She is also interested in participatory research, cross-cultural technology transfer and application of appropriate technology, with particular reference to the Nishnawbe-Aski and other Canadian First Nations.

Publications:

• Paloheimo, J.E., A.P. Zimmerman, W.G. Sprules and M.A. Gates. (1984). "The structure of aquatic ecosystems and its dependency on environmental variables". Pp. 85-104 In M. Fasham (ed.) Flows of Energy and Materials in Marine Ecosystems IV, Plenum Press, N.Y.
  
• Carpenter, S.R., T.M. Frost, J.F. Kitchell, T.K. Kratz, D.W. Schindler, J. Shearer, W.G. Sprules, M.J. Vanni and A.P.Zimmerman. (1991). "Patterns of primary productivity and herbivory in 25 north American lake ecosystems". Pp. 67-96. In Cole, Lovett and Findlay (eds.) Comparative Analyses of Ecosystems: Pattern, Mechanisms and Theories,Springer Verlag.
  
• Warren, L.A. and A.P. Zimmerman. (1993). "Trace metal-suspended particulate matter associations in a fluvial system: physical and chemical influences". Pp. 127-155 In S.S. Rao (ed.) Particulate Matter and Aquatic Contaminants, LewisPublishers.
  
• King, J.R., B.J. Shuter and A.P. Zimmerman. (1997). The response of the thermal stratification of South Bay (Lake Huron) to climatic variability. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54: 1873-1882.

Custodian

Jason Nolan

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~jnolan/
jason.nolan@utoronto.ca

Associate Educational Coordinator, Division of the Environment. He is also a member of the steering committee for KMDI and the Director of Project Achieve (a collaborative virtual learning environment http://achieve.utoronto.ca) and Co-director of the original OSEE.

Publications:

• Nolan, J., Weiss, J. (2000). "Expectation and Context in the Creation of Virtual Communities." In Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace. Ann Renninger and Wes Shumar, Cambridge UP.
• Nolan, J., Lawrence, J. & Kajihara, Y. (1999). "Montgomery's Island in the Net: Metaphor and Community on the Kindred Spirits E-mail List ". Canadian Children's Literature. 91, 24:3-4.
• Hidi, S., Weiss, J., Berndorff, D. & Nolan, J. (1998). "Learning Science Across Formal and Informal Learning Settings: The Role of Gender, Instruction and a Co-operative Learning Technique." In L. Hoffmann, A. Krapp, K.A. Renninger, & J. Baumert (Eds.), Interest and Learning. Proceedings of the Seeon-Conference on Interest and Gender. IPN_Schriftenreihe Keil: IPN.

Towards an Ecozoic Curriculum

Ontario Society for Environmental Education (OSEE)

http:// www.osee.org

OSEE is an organization for environmental educators, students, parents, and other persons who are dedicated to the promotion and improvement of environmental education.Their mission is to help develop a population that is aware of, and concerned about, the environment; to create knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work, both individually and collectively, toward solutions of our current environmental problems and the prevention of new ones.

OSEE are the publishers for the original "Towards an Ecozoic Curriculum" that makes up a portion of this web site.

Canadian Aquatic Ecosystems

Maureen Scott Harris

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/www/canpoetry/harris
maureen.harris@utoronto.ca

Maureen is a writer and editor who also gives some lectures in an environmental studies course on common pool resources at the University of Toronto. She used to be a librarian and a bookstore clerk. Her volume of poems, *A Possible Landscape*, was published in 1993 by Brick Books (London, ON). Individual poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in various Canadian literary journals and anthologies.

Maureen found her first camera when she was 8 years old and in spite of light-streaked photos she was hooked. When she was 14 she saved her baby-sitting money and bought a Brownie Hawkeye and has rarely been without a camera since. Her preferred subject is landscape in any or all of its aspects. Her intention is to honour the extraordinary diversity and beauty of place and the planet.

Closer Look at Ontario

Ontario Streams

http:// www.ontariostreams.on.ca

Mark Heaton

Mark Heaton is a fish and wildlife biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1989 with a bachelors degree in biology and has been employed by the OMNR since 1985. He has been working with Ontario Streams as the MNR Advisor guiding partnerships development and overseeing several stream and wetlands rehabilitation projects in the Toronto area. When he is not in waders, he enjoys working with Peregrine Falcons on some of Toronto's tall buildings. Mark received 1997 Riverkeeper's Award from Ontario Streams and the Roderick Haig Brown Award for Outstanding Achievements in Fish Habitat Conservation from the Izaak Walton Fly Fishing Club in 1998.

Vicki Samaras

Vicki Samaras is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, with a double major in Botany and Environmental Science. Following graduation she joined the Ministry of Natural Resources as a Fish and Wildlife Technician, where she began her work with the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Program and various stream rehabilitation efforts. After handling many of the fish species in the Rouge and Humber rivers, she often commented to her fellow aquatic biologists of the joys of being a Botanist, this is, until she ran into patches of poison ivy and stinging nettle. Vicki Samaras is currently a member of Ontario Streams.

Ministry of Natural Resources

http:// www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/

The Canadian Peregrine Foundation

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca

Urban Forestry

Urban Forestry Research Group, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

http:// www.forestry.utoronto.ca

Andy Kenney

Andy is an assistant Professor Urban and community forestry and agroforestry. He specializes in urban and community forestry and agroforestry. His research interests include the impact of urbanization on woodlands, planning and design aspects of urban forestry, short rotation forestry, particularly for the production of biomass for energy, and the design, establishment, and management of windbreaks.

Publications:

• Kenney, W.A., Gambles, R.L. and Vanstone, B.J. 1995. "Willow biomass prototype farms of the University of Toronto: status and future plans". In: Karau, J. (ed.), Proceedings of the Canadian Energy Plantation Workshop, Gananoque
• Kenney,WA 1993. "Multipurpose tree plantations and the sustainability of energy biomass production". Journal of Sustainable Forestry 1(3):105-119.
• Kenney, WA, Gambles, R.L. And Zsuffa, L. 1993. "Prototype energy plantations in Ontario". Forestry Chronicle 69(6):714-716.

Helena Rusak. Graduate student

Danijela Puric-Mladenovic. Graduate student

Urban Land Use

We acknowledge the contribution of the Canadian International Development Agency for the funding of the Bolivia
Sustainable Urban Development project.
http:// www.yrbe.edu.on.ca/~bayv/geog9/agent.htm

Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto

Claudia Marcondes

Claudia is the director of both the Bolivia Sustainable Urban Development Project and University of Toronto Urban International, and a lecturer at the university's Division of the Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science. An architect and urban planner, she has been active in international development, urban planning, management and environment, decentralization and local government in Latin America for more than 15 years.

The Team.

We give special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the conception and development of this web site.

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