If you want to learn more about the Northern ENCS Program, you can contact me at: fiona.schmiegelow@ualberta.ca (tel: 867-668-8711). I am located in Whitehorse, and direct the program. The program is also supported locally by a Yukon College Coordinator, Lisa Christensen (lchrsitensen@yukoncollege.yk.ca). Lisa is ideally suited to this position, as she holds both an undergraduate ENCS degree, and a graduate degree focused on northern issues.
Kyoto University Exchange At the end of August, 10 undergraduate students from Kyoto University in Japan visited the University of Alberta as part of an agriculture exchange. The trip was originally planned by adjunct professor Charlie Arshad, who has a long relationship with Kyoto University, and the recently retired Associate Dean International, Bob Hudson. Professors Miles Dyck, Scott Nielsen and Chokri Dridi planned the students‘ trip, which included a tour of Agri-Food Discovery Place, a look at the Highmark Renewables biogas plant and feedlot in Vegreville, and a visit to a community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm north of Edmonton. The students also traveled to Lacombe to see Agriculture Cana- Kyoto University and ALES students get a tour of an agricultural da and Alberta Agriculture‘s crop development and beef production research facilities, operation with alumnus Bern and to Lethbridge to see intensive agriculture under irrigation. Kotelko. The students noticed some major differences between Alberta and Japan. Professor Dyck pointed out that the scale of production is much, much bigger in Canada. Alberta‘s dry prairie landscape is significantly different from Japan‘s humid and mountainous terrain, and our province‘s soils were developed on glacial drift as opposed to Japan‘s which were developed on volcanic ash. The result is that different types of crops are grown in the two regions. A group of University of Alberta agriculture students are expected to travel to Kyoto in May, 2011. This article appeared in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences ALES Tales, August 2010.
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