Presenters

Canadian Centre for Climate Services

Amanda has a M.Sc. in Geography with a focus on paleoclimatology and examining the impacts of climate variability on forest migration and development. Amanda works in Halifax (Kjipuktuk) located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.

She joined the Support Desk at the Canadian Centre for Climate Services as a Physical Science Officer in the Fall of 2021. In this position, Amanda helps people find, understand, use, and incorporate climate information, data, and tools in their decision making.

Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

Nina joined the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) in September 2022 in a new role as the Indigenous Communities Climate Adaptation Coordinator.

Prior to working with PCIC, Nina spent over 3 years working with First Nations across BC in marine and fisheries management, policy and research. Nina completed a B.Sc. from the University of California Davis, where she focused on ecology and inter-tidal ecosystems. After her Bachelor’s, Nina worked as a science educator for two years before completing her Master’s in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University.

Nina is of mixed British settler and Lebanese decent and is grateful to currently live and work in beautiful lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) territory.

First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of BC (FNESS)

Carmichael is the GIS (geographic information system) Analyst at FNESS’s decision support team. He is experienced in spatial analysis and supporting and coordinating recovery projects.

Tŝilhqot’in National Government

Cynthia Fell, PAg, is the Resource Management Coordinator for Tŝilhqot’in Nen (Water, Lands and Resources) with the Tŝilhqot’in National Government.

Ms. Fell obtained a Degree in Natural Resource Sciences with Co-op Distinction from Thompson Rivers University. She is knowledgeable in forest and range management, fish and wildlife management, watershed management, fire ecology and management, and post-fire rehabilitation.

Ms. Fell has spent many years evaluating the relationships among natural resource operations, habitat conditions, species distribution patterns, and survival rates. Recently, some of her work has been focused on evaluating climate induced risks to Indigenous food security and implications for emergency management.

First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of BC (FNESS)

Guyu Lin is the Data Support Specialist at FNESS’s decision support team. He integrates climate data for First Nation communities and develops tools to support communities’ decision making.