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Voices from the Deltas Toddi Steelman, Principal Investigator, Delta Dialogue Network Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability October 18, 2016 www.usask.ca/research-groups/ddn Interdisciplinary Co-Investigators Engineer

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Voices from the Deltas

Toddi Steelman, Principal Investigator, Delta Dialogue Network Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability October 18, 2016 www.usask.ca/research-groups/ddn

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Interdisciplinary Co-Investigators

Policy Scientist Ecologist Geographer Social psychologist Chemist Political Scientist Toxicologist Engineer Environmental Scientist Systems Analyst Social scientist

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Inland deltas face similar challenges

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Problem

Research and monitoring programs looking at water,

air, wildlife

But - information doesn’t always reach the people who

want and need it

Photo by Veronica Mauel Photo by Tim Jardine Photo by Kiri Staples

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Delta Dialogue Network Goals

Can knowledge:
be shared more effectively?
Validity, credibility, legitimacy
For whom? In what contexts?
lead to action?
Innovative implementation
Novel approaches, methodologies

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Multiple Partners and Collaborators

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Charlebois Community School

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Ducks Unlimited

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Aurora Research Institute

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Opaskwayak Cree Nation

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Government of the Northwest Territories

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Parks Canada

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Slave River and Delta Partnership

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Peace-Athabasca Delta Ecological Monitoring Program

Slave River and Delta Partnership Peace-Athabasca Delta Ecological Monitoring Program (2014) – www.pademp.ca

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Three main projects:

1. Evaluation of existing knowledge

mobilization tools in the Slave River Delta

Partner organization: Slave River and Delta

Partnership

Research undertaken by Kiri Staples, Jenn

Fresque-Baxter and Toddi Steelman

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2. Knowledge mobilization for policy and

decision-making in the Peace-Athabasca Delta

Student: Sarah Baines, MES Candidate
Advisors: Toddi Steelman, Lalita Bharadwaj
Partner organization: Peace-Athabasca Delta

Ecological Monitoring Program

Photo credit: Jason Straka

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3. Knowledge mobilization with youth in the

Saskatchewan River Delta

Research Assistants: Evan Andrews, Jacquelyne

Nokusis, Kiri Staples, Mathura Thiruparanathan

Partner organization: Charlebois Community

School

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Delta Days 2016

When/Where: April 5th – 7th at Wanuskewin Heritage

Park and the University of Saskatchewan

Purpose:
Build connections between delta communities (face-to-

face)

Share knowledge around key themes (youth engagement,

watershed planning, community-based monitoring)

Identify key concerns and actions
Engage youth as the next generation of delta stewards
Outreach and communication with the broader public

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Participants

5 delta communities

across 4 provinces and territories

3 government agencies
3 Universities
1 industry organization
1 environmental non-

government organization

…and many, many others

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =R0z6loAn9kY

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Continuing the momentum

Summary reports
Cross-delta communication (e.g.

listserv)

Social media presence
Art legacy project
Possible youth exchange
Traveling display “Building Bridges

between Deltas” (winter 2016)

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Traveling Display

Ft. Chipewyan, AB
Ft. Smith, NWT
Ft. Resolution, NWT
Yellowknife, NWT
Cumberland House, SK
Saskatoon, SK
Ottawa, ON

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Bring back nature’s flow– Restore our deltas’ rhythms

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Sponsors

Cabela’s
College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan
CP Rail Partnership Program in Aboriginal Development
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
International Centre for Northern Governance and

Development, University of Saskatchewan

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Office of Community Engagement and Outreach, University of

Saskatchewan

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of