Dr. Lori Daniels is the inaugural Koerner Chair of the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC-Vancouver. She also directs the Tree-Ring Lab at UBC. Lori investigates the impacts of natural and human disturbances and climate change on forests. With her research team, she has on- going projects on wildfires, forest dynamics, and social-ecological resilience to climate change across British Columbia. Her enduring partnerships with local, provincial, and national governments, environmental organizations, forest management companies, community forests, and First Nations ensure her scientific advances are translated to active conservation, restoration and management. She contributed to the Blueprint for Wildland Fire Science in Canada and served as a member of the Canadian Wildfire Strategy Implementation Team and the NSERC-Canada Wildfire Research Network. Since 2015, she has given more than 350 media interviews on wildfires and their impacts on forests and communities. She is among the 150 Canadian Scientists recognized in 2017 for research shaping new frontiers and making our world a better place (#150Scientists). She was received the 2019 Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Achievement Award, 2022 Distinguished Career Award in Biogeography from Association of American Geographers, and 2023 Distinguished Leader in Research Award from the Association of Fire Ecologists.

Johanna Wagstaffe is the on-air meteorologist, seismologist and scientist for CBC VANCOUVER NEWS and CBC NEWS NETWORK. She is also the host of PLANET WONDER on CBC News Explore - where she asks unexpected climate questions on a journey of discovery through science, connecting perspectives on and solutions to climate change.

Johanna has been covering national and international weather stories for the CBC News: Weather Centre since the summer of 2007.

Wagstaffe's strong background in seismology and earth science has led her to cover major seismic events, space missions and the Copenhagen, Paris and Glasgow Climate Change conferences. She has hosted several award-winning CBC Vancouver podcasts: Fault Lines, 2050: Degrees of Change and continues to work on various CBC original podcast projects.

She is a vital resource for CBC and provides expert insight into breaking weather stories, as well as providing context to weather patterns and science stories in her “Science Smart” series. You can catch 'Science Smart’ on CBC’s Our Vancouver and online.

She graduated with an honours degree in geophysics from The University of Western Ontario. She was first exposed to weather forecasting as a summer intern at the Environment Canada Severe Weather Centre, then obtained her post-graduate meteorology certificate from York University. She first joined CBC Vancouver News and CBC News Now as the on-camera meteorologist in Fall 2012.

Outside of work, Wagstaffe loves being a mom, running, teaching children about weather and science and flying. She got her pilot's license when she was 17 years old and still flies with her father in a 1943 Aeronca on the weekends.

With two decades of experience in broadcasting, Chris seamlessly transitioned his skills into the renewable energy sector. Joining forces with the passionate team at Shift, he believes in the transformative power of solar for a greener planet. Known for his positive, honest, and hardworking nature, Chris thrives on building genuine relationships. As Shift's Community Manager, he is on a mission to spread his enthusiasm for solar and educate the world on the incredible benefits of PV technology and clean tech solutions.

Dr. Jennie Moore is BCIT’s Director of Sustainability and an internationally recognized leader in urban ecological footprinting. She has contributed to the development of the UN-Habitat Global Urban Monitoring Framework, International Union of the Conservation of Nature’s Urban Nature Index, and Ecocity Builder’s International Ecocity Standards. Prior to joining BCIT, Dr. Moore served as Metro Vancouver’s first Air Quality Planner in charge of climate action and subsequently led the Sustainable Region Initiative.

Dr. Craig Stephen has devoted his career to developing ideas, people, policies and evidence to concurrently promote the health of people and animals and their shared environments. Craig trained as a veterinarian and epidemiologist. He is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Clinical Professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He currently leads the McEachran Institute, a Canadian charitable organization that believes that action is the key to a future where every species and generation can achieve their full health potential. He has worked extensively on issues we face in the current polycrisis including biodiversity loss, pandemic and emerging diseases prevention and climate change impacts on health.

Alison (Senior Manager, Canada Programs) has been with the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada since 2022, after a decade of working with SPCAs and Humane Societies across the country to improve and develop their decolonization and equity policies, especially as they relate to OneHealth and respectful relationships with Indigenous communities. They hold a unique lived experience from both their German/Ukrainian immigrant settler family as well as their relations of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Alison is a certified Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) planner, and is passionate about uplifting Indigenous-led land care practices and promoting Ethical Space and Etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing) in all of their work.

Dr. Carin Bondar is a biologist, author and philosopher. Her work focuses on increasing science literacy and communication in the public. Bondar is a lecturing adjunct professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, teaching in the areas of science communication and environmental science. Recently elected to the Chilliwack School Board, Bondar is an advocate for STEM education and for keeping girls in STEM subjects through high school.

Bondar’s work appears on National Geographic, Discovery Worldwide, TED, Animal Planet, Netflix and The Science Channel. She is an adventurer and explorer, having discovered new species of beetles and snails in the remote jungles of Borneo with her research team from the Netherlands (Leiden) and Italy (Verona). Bondar currently lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia with her four children, her partner, three dogs and one cat.

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