Integrated Watershed Management (IWM)
Hazel Breton is a Professional Engineer that has been working in the Water Resources field for 25 years. She has spent about 4 years working for private consultants and about 21 years working for a Conservation Authorities in Ontario in the water resources field. This included working for Conservation Ontario, which is the umbrella organization which provides support to all conservation authorities in Ontario on common strategic issues.
This presentation will focus on the review and assessment of Integrated Watershed Management in Ontario recently completed for Conservation Ontario, Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources.
Mr. Doherty is a consulting engineer with over 30 years of varied water resource experience across southern Ontario and Canada. Mr. Doherty has co-authored several technical documents for agencies such as the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Mr. Doherty will present a Water Management Framework recently developed for Conservation Ontario. The Framework was developed to address current and emerging issues in water management. The presentation will focus on the principles used to develop the Framework and the elements within the Framework.
Ryan Post, M.Sc. P.Geo is the hydrogeologist source protection coordinator for the NVCA. Mr Post received his M.Sc. in geology from Laurentian University in 2001. Prior to coming to the NVCA, Ryan has worked with the Ministry of the Environment, Kawartha Region Conservation Authority, and the Alberta Geological Survey.
Tiffany-Ann Svensson, M.Sc., P.Geo. is a senior hydrogeologist and principal with WESA Inc. in their Kitchener office. Ms. Svensson received her M.Sc. in hydrogeology from the University of Waterloo in 1996. Her area of expertise is in the area of agricultural and other non-point impacts on ground and surface water as well as groundwater resource investigations.
Over the past 16 years Ms. Svensson has worked closely with farmers, farm organizations, the academic community, and the public sector in Ontario including the Ministry of Agriculture Food, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Ministry of Health, various Conservation Authorities and several municipalities.
The objective of this study was to develop an IWRMS for all large-scale water users in Innisfil Creek subwatershed; targeting surface water users which are predominantly agricultural water users. The IWRMS was based on the following guiding principles; ecosystem approach, stakeholder participation, goal-oriented, and water as an economic good. The development of the IWMRS was completed through a series of workshops with the input and participation of stakeholders with the creation of the Innisfil Creek Water Users Association as one of the outcomes.
This work was funded through the Canada Ontario Water Supply Expansion Program (COWSEP).
Geothermal - a Green Initiative?Heather Brodie-Brown is Team Lead for the Water Resources Science Team at the Ministry of the Environment's Standards Development Branch. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Earth Sciences from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters Degree in Groundwater Resource Management from University College, University of London in England. Heather has been with the Ministry of the Environment for 8 years. Prior to that she was a consultant and has working in Canada and in Botswana. Heather has considerable experience in contaminant and resource hydrogeology gained over the past 20 years.
Ann Marie Weselan is Acting Manager in the Water Policy Section with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and has been working at MOE for about 5 years. Prior to her work at the province, she worked for 15 years on various water, wastewater and watershed management initiatives at the municipal and conservation authority levels. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Queen's University.
This presentation will focus on the work the province has completed to date on how earth energy systems are currently managed.
Don has been employed in the Ecology Division of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority since November 2002. He manages the Geoenvironmental group, and is the practice leader for hydrogeology. Prior to his involvement with TRCA, he worked for approximately 16 years as an environmental consultant in the assessment and remediation of contaminated sites. Don is also the Chair of the Conservation Authority Geoscientists group, which is organizing a symposium on Ground Source Heating and Cooling in October 2009. He has a keen interest in green technology but wants to ensure that these systems are designed and constructed safely and without impacts to the natural environment.
The Ground Source Heating and Cooling symposium will be held at the Kortright Centre for Conservation October 20 and 21, 2009. Over 50 environmental professionals from academia, consulting, industry, and all three levels of government will review and discuss the environmental issues and opportunities of this emerging technology. Don Ford will present an overview of this symposium and outline some of the key findings and recommendations.
I have lived in a small south western Ontario community all of my life except when I was away at University. My family and I have a hay business and a small cash crop enterprise. We also sell clover seed. We have been farming in the area for well over one hundred years. That is why we are so involved and concerned about our environment. We live in an area with creeks and rivers. Erosion and water maintenance are top priorities for us. We have planted thousands of trees, buffer strips, and forage crops in an effort to maintain the land as it was given to us by our predecessors. To recognize our environmental efforts, our family was honoured by the University of Guelph with a rural environmental award in 2006.
In my role as executive director of the Ontario Ground Water Association the aim, along with our membership, is to encourage the protection and proper use of our most precious resource - ground water.
We are very involved in our church and in the community. My wife and I volunteer on many committees and we are strong supporters of the rural environment as a place to work and raise our families.
Earth Energy Systems and Ground Water: How the Ontario Ground Water Association (OGWA) sees the process proceeding. The OGWA focus is the protection and maintenance of Ontario’s ground water.
Shrinking Budgets and Land SecurementBarb Heidenreich is a professional planner and specialist in economy-ecology linkages. She has worked within the private business sector, with not-for-profits and with all levels of government: federal, provincial and municipal. This experience has given her a unique insight into using a partnership approach to natural heritage conservation which she has put into practice working with Evergreen and the Ontario Heritage Trust. Barb has a B.A. in Geography from York University and post graduate degrees in Economic Geography from McMaster University and International Business and Public Affairs from Columbia University, N.Y.
Barb Heidenreich will outline the many public and private sector options available when municipalities, conservation authorities and land trusts form partnerships and work with landowners to secure natural heritage systems.
Environmental entrepreneur and investor, Robert began his career over 20 years ago with the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. In his 10 years there, he held a variety of positions there and by the time he left, created a legacy of stronger environmental policies.
In 1999, Robert then joined the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to create nature preserves throughout Ontario by negotiating land donations and purchases with landowners. After being there over 3 years, he protected over 25 environmentally significant natural areas.
In 2003, Robert then established his own business doing land conservation, primarily land securement, for important lands throughout the province: http://orlandconservation.ca/.
Over 2,500 acres have been secured by Robert and his growing team. His company devises strategies for governments, conservation authorities and land trusts to conserve green space in perpetuity.
His clients include the Regional Municipalities of York, Peel and Halton, LSRCA, NVCA, CVC, and HCA, City of Guelph, Ducks Unlimited, Royal Botanical Gardens, and the Ontario Land Trust Alliance as well a variety of land trusts across the province.
Robert Orland will provide an overview with case studies of creative securement techniques such as fundraising clauses in your agreement of purchase and sale, right-of-first-refusal, option to purchase, partial takings, mortgages and loans.
Paul Peterson will focus on landowner options that cover split receipting, life estate, and the use of Planning Act provisions that help secure green space.
Personal Transformation
Arthur Churchyard is a rural planning student at the University of Guelph focused on next generation farmers and sustainable livelihoods. He is an award-winning writer and student leader, organizing a number of grassroots events including Guelph’s campus Sustainability Week. Using scholarship funds, Arthur bought a downtown bungalow in April 2009 and began an urban regeneration project through rental agreements with four fellow students. The house is a living library of ideas, projects and social networks for sustainable change.
Is it true that today’s youth don’t know how to cook, clean or care? Get ready for an age of unprecedented global awareness and the re-skilling of a generation demanding change.
Paying for StewardshipKristen Thompson is the Project Coordinator for the Norfolk County Alternative Land Use Services Pilot Project. She graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Environment and Resources Studies faculty in 2006. She then moved to south western Saskatchewan where she began work for the Prairie Conservation Action Plan. Kristen coordinated and delivered Saskatchewan’s first Cooperative Weed Management Area based out of Mankota, SK before moving back to Southern Ontario to join ALUS. She is very interested in farmer led conservation initiatives.
The Norfolk County ALUS Pilot Project has used adaptive management over the span of the pre-pilot and official pilot project launch to improve the ecological health of the working landscape, in partnership with the agricultural community in Norfolk County. The ALUS presentation will focus on the lessons learned, barriers, and future recommendations for engaging rural communities in the provision of ecological goods and services.
Susanna Reid has a masters degree in Rural Planning from the University of Guelph, and is a municipal land use planner for the County of Huron. She co-ordinates the Huron County Water Protection Steering Committee, and has a focus on land stewardship and watershed planning.
The Huron Payment for Ecological Goods and Services pilot project is an effort to advance sustainability by offering economic rewards for achieving and environmental benefits. Two years into this pilot project we are evaluating accomplishments and considering next steps.
Born, raised and educated in south-eastern Australia, Joe moved to Canada in the summer of 2008 and works as a Planning Ecologist with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. With a Bachelor of Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Canberra, Joe previously worked for the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency and Australia’s largest not-for-profit environmental organization, Greening Australia. He has extensive stewardship experience, working with landowners in rural and regional areas of eastern Australia implementing biodiversity and natural resource management projects.
In Australia there has been a shift towards implementing stewardship programs that utilize new delivery mechanisms which provide greater value for money as well as securing long-term environmental outcomes. One mechanism, Conservation Tenders, funds conservation works on private land by combining a competitive stewardship process with market forces. This presentation will highlight what conservation tenders are, how they work, why they have been successful and where they could fit into stewardship activities in Ontario.
Information Management ProjectsCandace Jones is the GIS Web Development Specialist for the MOE GIS Portal with Conservation Ontario. Ms. Jones received a bachelor’s degree from Trent University in Biology and Environmental Resource Sciences with a specialization in GIS. Her experience includes species at risk conservation in Ontario and Mexico with the Toronto Zoo, and GIS application development with Hydro One.
The MOE GIS Portal pilot phase has now ended and feedback has been integrated into the newest release. This presentation will take you through our development phase over the past year and how this tool has become a valuable tool to link in with different initiatives. We will also introduce some of the opportunities and challenges we face as we move forward.
Sasha Kebo is a GIS project manager for OGWA at Pollution Probe, an environmental NGO. Sasha holds a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University (Geography) and a master’s degree from York University (Public Participation Geographic Information Systems). His areas of interest include Free Open Source web-GIS applications, distributed networks and data sharing, and online public participation.
The Ottawa-Gatineau Watershed Atlas (OGWA) is an initiative that demonstrates an approach to overcome the jurisdictional challenges of watershed management and information sharing. The future of OGWA and distributed networking will also be discussed.
Tracey has been the GIS/CAD Information Specialist for the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority since 2003. She holds a Forestry Technologist diploma from Fleming College in Lindsay, Urban and Regional Planning with GIS/CAD diploma from Fanshawe College, along with Certificates in Computer Systems Management from Durham College and Environmental Management Systems from Lakehead University. Tracey enjoys working at the Conservation Authority because it allows her to get her money’s worth out of her education and she continues to learn new things daily.
CAMaps.ca is in its fourth year as a collaborative project amongst 12 Conservation Authorities to implement a cost efficient and sustainable web mapping application supporting core business and regulatory requirements.
Monologues to DialoguesScott Adams is the president of CORE Consultants, a marketing and media relations agency, specializing in the tourism industry. Scott has grown a solid reputation within the industry through his blended use of new media, SEO and web technologies. Scott has been a web-marketing advisor, organized training workshops, taught marketing at Fleming College, ran successful online campaigns, tweeted about stuff, made friends on Facebook, wrote a blog that no one read and gets paid to watch Youtube.
The days of faxing a press release and crossing your fingers are over. Learn how to remove the gate keepers and get your message out to the public yourself. The rise of social media has created tremendous opportunities to not only reach the masses but to engage with the masses. We'll cover how to get started, how to engage and how not to get overwhelmed by it all.
Jeff Quipp is president and CEO of Search Engine People Inc., one of Canada's largest and most experienced internet marketing firms. With more than eight years' experience in the space, Jeff is a pioneer and visionary in the field.
Social media, search, and email are not new concepts. The technologies enabling each are relatively new however, and when harmonized to achieve specific objectives, become an extremely powerful combined force. This session will show how conceptually, each can be utilized as part of an overriding Digital Strategy ... a must in the new information age.
Plenary Session (1:15 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.)
When Google wanted to explain online marketing to the top brands in the world (including Wal-Mart, Costco, Sears and Sephora), they brought Mitch Joel to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and in 2006, he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Mitch Joel is President of Twist Image – an award-winning Digital Marketing agency. He is a marketing and communications visionary, interactive expert, community leader, Blogger and Podcaster. He is also a passionate entrepreneur and speaker who connects with people worldwide by sharing his marketing insights on digital marketing and personal branding. In 2008, Mitch was also named Canada’s Most Influential Male in Social Media and one of the top 100 online marketers in the world.
Joel is a Board Member for the Canadian Marketing Association, an executive for the National Advertising Benevolent Society of Quebec and an instructor of the CMA eMarketing professional certificate course. He is also a former Board Member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada.
Joel speaks frequently to diverse groups like Starbucks, Microsoft, Unilever, Proctor and Gamble, The Power Within and has shared the stage with former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, Anthony Robbins and Dr. Phil.
He co-launched Distort Entertainment, the only hard music label in Canada to have major label distribution (Universal Music) and whose roster features the platinum-plus, Juno Award and MuchMusic Video Award-winning acts, Alexisonfire and City And Colour.
Joel is frequently called upon to be a subject matter expert for CTV National News, Canada AM, CBC Newsworld, Marketing Magazine, Strategy, The Globe & Mail, The National Post and many other media outlets. His first book, Six Pixels of Separation, will be released in the Fall of 2009 on Grand Central Publishing – formerly Time Warner Books, and his newspaper business column, New Business – Six Pixels of Separation, runs bi-monthly in both The Montreal Gazette and Vancouver Sun.
Companies still struggle to understand online marketing as a new generation of digital opportunities unfolds. Consumers have never been so powerful. Consumers have never been so connected. Mitch Joel unravels the fascinating world of New Marketing, Consumer Generated Content and Social Media. Learn how these marketing touch points are creating conversations where the results are staggering and loyalty is off the charts. Words like Social Media and Web 2.0 control every boardroom discussion in relation to growing market share and new Marketing opportunities. Learn how to take part in these communities and conversations.
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