September 2017 Newsletter
Department of Resource Economics and
Environmental Sociology

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Dr. Ellen Goddard on CBC news: commenting on NAFTA and its impacts on Canadian trade

Dr. Maik Kecinski on Gateway: What you know changes how much you pay for the oysters on your plate

The Globe and Mail Dr. Brenda Parlee combines traditional knowledge with scientific research

In Remembrance of Evelyn Shapka

On December 8, 2017 Evelyn Shapka passed away. Evelyn was an important member of the REES (then Rural Economy) family in the 1970s and 80s serving as the Department librarian and supporting faculty, students and staff. Evelyn’s role included the functioning of the then very active library, as well as editing publications – including providing support for graduate students and their theses. It’s amazing to note the number of dissertations that include thanks to Evelyn in their acknowledgements section. Evelyn grew up in Vegreville and graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.A. in English. Soon after graduation she took the job at the Rural Economy library and stayed for about 12 years. She was an active member of the social fabric of the department, and many have fond memories of her sense of humor, her passion for food, the help she provided in many different ways. Professor Emeritus Peter Apedaile recalls “She made our department ambiance bubble with cheerful collegial productivity.” In the early 1980s Evelyn moved to Alberta Agriculture where she worked in strategic planning and agricultural communications for the remainder of her career – retiring recently. It’s a reflection of Evelyn’s passion for agriculture, Alberta, and communications that an endowment fund has been established in her name that will support post-secondary students from Northern Alberta interested in Communication in Agriculture, Food Production and Rural Development (see the Edmonton Community Foundations website for more detail). This is a fitting legacy to a person so committed to communication in agriculture.
-- Vic Adamowicz

CONGRATULATIONS to our most recent research funding awardees:

Drs. Marcoul and An’s proposal on information sharing between competitors has been approved by the Agriculture Funding Consortium.

Alberta Agriculture and Forestry has granted Dr. Swallow funding for his project on policies for the development of local food in Alberta.

Drs. Goddard, Mohapatra, Parkins and Swallow received funding from the University of Alberta SSHRC Institutional Grants.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has approved funding for several proposals submitted by REES. Congratulations to Drs. Boxall, Davidson and Anders, to Drs. An and Adamowicz, and to Dr. Fan on her first University of Alberta proposal submission since her hire in August 2017.

February 1	Brown Bag: Caitlynn Beckett, PhD Student, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Rethinking Remediation: Mine Closure and Community Engagement at the Giant Mine, Yellowknife".
February 2	Department Seminar: Branko Bošković, Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, "How much does anticipation matter? Evidence from anticipated regulation and land prices".
February 9	Department Seminar: Roger van Haefen, Associate Professor, Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, "Estimating the Value of Lost Recreation Days From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill".
March 2	Department Seminar: Haifang Huang, Dept of Economics, University of Alberta, "U.S. economy, happiness and anti-establishment votes".
March 16	Department Seminar: Jevan Cherniwchan, Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business, “Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?”.
April 5	Brown Bag: Feng Qiu, Assistant Professor, Dept of REES, University of Alberta, "Dynamic Conditional Correlations and Tail Dependence: Vertical Price Co-movement in the U.S. Pork Industry".

Details for all events are posted on our Department website
For further information, please contact Yunyan Li at yunyan.li@ualberta.ca

Congratulations to those who received Faculty Awards:

International Engagement Award (2017)
Brent Swallow

Teaching Wall of Fame (2017)
Ellen Goddard, Jodie Hierlmeier, Martin Luckert and James Rude

Congratulations to Bruno Wichmann and Feng Qiu for promotion and tenure to Associate Professors effective July 1, 2018.

Ellen Goddard gave a keynote speech "Public Views of Animal Treatments: Misplaced or Realistic Concerns?" at the 2017 CanWest Veterinary Conference on October 17th.

Peter Boxall gave a talk on “Public Preferences for Planting Genetically Improved Poplars on Public Land for Biofuel Production in Western Canada” at the SPARK 2017 Conference on November 8th.

The Department Graduate Student Information Session was held on January 18th to provide prospective grad students information on what research we do and what graduate school is like. The session engaged a lot of students to ask questions.

Anna Kauffman placed first in the Research Poster Competition in the eighth annual Agri-food Policy Conference held in Ottawa in January 2018. Her poster is titled: Reverse Auctions for Restored Wetlands: Low Participation on the Prairies. This is the third consecutive year that a REES student has won the first place in the Research Poster Competition!

Shuo Wang (left) came in third place in the Student Poster Session at the Livestock Gentec conference in October 2017 with her poster titled "Does the adoption of genomics technology in the forestry sector benefit society?"

Chelsea Martin was featured in The Edmonton Journal on her indigenous knowledge-integrated climate change study with Dr. Brenda Parlee.

Irene Onyango, Yu Feng and Claire Doll
REES grad students from different continents come together to seek to understand why people do - or don't adopt new energy technologies (Read More).

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Arlana Bennett, Grant Bruno, Chelsea Martin, and Kristine Wray on receiving the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Indigenous Graduate Award.

Congratulations to students who convocated in November 2017!

Albert Boaitey
Arenna
Emilie Bassi
Stephen Bruce
Claire Doll
Todd Godfrey
Anita Laryea
Lucas Novak
Meng Yang

C. Wayne Lindwall and Ron Svanes (right)
Congratulations to REES Class of '71 alumni Ron Svanes for winning the Orville Yanke Award at the Annual Farming Smarter Conference in December 2017!
(Read More)

Read Carley-Jane Stanton's journey to finding her academic pursuit:
Academic Journeys: Carley-Jane Stanton

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