All of the fieldtrips will be taking place on the Afternoon of Friday March 6th. Please see fieldtrips for further details regarding time, location and costs. Some details will not be finalized until numbers are confirmed. Signing up for fieldtrips is done during conference registration; after proceeding to checkout you will be asked if you would like to add a fieldtrip to your conference registration.
Fieldtrip 1: False Creek Shoreline Boat Tour
Join Andy Yan, SFU Urban Studies and City Program, and Elvin Wyly, UBC Geography for a tour of Vancouver from the waters of False Creek. Cities are material, physical concentrations of people, infrastructure, and capital. And yet cities are also metaphysical portals that allow and require unconventional ways of perceiving relations across space and time. The global city-region that has come to be known as Metro Vancouver is an especially unique portal revealing multidimensional reconfigurations of past/present, colonial/decolonial, and local/global. Join us for a boat ride on False Creek, a small tidal inlet with a shoreline palimpsest of generations of economic, sociocultural, and socionatural evolution. We’ll bounce along on the gentle waves in view of the shiny towers of the ‘City of Glass,’ and share stories of buildings, landscapes, histories, and futures in this endlessly fascinating corner of the world.
- Cost: 25$ per person
- Maximum capacity 15 persons, scheduled Friday 1pm-3pm
- Meet at 12:45 at the Yaletown False Creek Ferry dock at the eastern foot of Davie Street at Quayside Marina. https://granvilleislandferries.bc.ca/dock-locations/
- Please sign up and pay for this fieldtrip when you register for the conference
Andy Yan. Credit: Elvin Wyly.
False Creek, Vancouver. Photo: Elvin Wyly.
Elvin Wyly
Fieldtrip 2: Hydrology Flume Lab Demonstration
Join Marwan Hassan, UBC Geography, and his students as they conduct three active experiments; a toy flume designed to study movement of individual grains, study collusion and sediment transport; a long flume designed to study sediment transport, erosion and fish habitat; and a LegoFlume designed to study braided streams, bars, meandering, floodplain-channel and vegetation-flow interactions. The Flume Lab is located on UBC Campus in the Ponderosa Building, and there is no cost for this fieldtrip.
- Cost: Free
- Maximum capacity 25 persons
- Meet on West Mall in front of the Geography Building on Friday at 3 pm
- Please sign up for this fieldtrip when you register for the conference
Marwan Hassan. Photo: Chenge An.
Marwan observing water flow. Photo: Leslie Kennah.
Fieldtrip 3: Noons Fish Hatchery
Join Poorna Patange, UBC Geography, for a tour of the Noons Fish Hatchery in Port Moody. Metro Vancouver is home to more than 20 salmon hatcheries, many of which are accessible by public transit. Each fall, salmon return to these hatcheries and nearby streams to complete their spawning cycle. The next generation—young salmon known as smolts—can spend up to two years in freshwater before heading to the ocean to mature. On this tour, we will visit Noons Creek Hatchery in Port Moody for a guided experience led by one of the hatchery’s knowledgeable volunteers. We will begin at Commercial–Broadway Station and travel together on the Millennium Line to Port Moody.
- Cost: $10.00 for the guided tour at Noons Creek Hatchery, plus $9.00 on the day for round-trip transit fare
- Maximum capacity 20 persons
- Friday 12pm-4pm, starting and ending at the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain Station
- Please sign up and pay for this fieldtrip when you register for the conference
Port Moody. Photo: Poorna Patange.
Poorna Patange
Fieldtrip 4: Nitobe Memorial Garden
Emeriti Richard Copley will guide us through the Nitobe Memorial Garden, built between 1959-1961 by Kannosuke Mori, the then foremost architect of traditional Japanese gardens. The garden is a textbook example of an arcane, ancient Chinese cosmography carried to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam along with Buddhism in the 8th century. Cosmography is the science dealing with general features of the universe, its branches including astronomy (especially calendrical astronomy) and geography (especially geomorphology). This memorial garden invites cosmic reflection and contemplation of a human life cycle, specifically the life of an individual, Inazo Nitobe, praised internationally as Japanese ambassador at the League of Nations and locally as a friend of many Vancouverites. On his way home to Kyoto, Inazo Nitobe fell sick in Vancouver and died in hospital in Victoria at 4 pm, Oct. 15, 1933, a moment precisely described cosmographically in the garden space, which included borrowed scenery in the form of a 1,500 year old Western Red Cedar—-tallest tree on Point Grey—-visible on the western skyline in the 1960s.
- Cost is $5 – Payment is for entrance to the garden, to be paid at the time of the fieldtrip.
- Maximum capacity of 12 persons.
- Friday 2pm-3:30pm, meet at entrance to Nitobe Gardens.
- Please sign up for this fieldtrip when you register for the conference.
Nitobe Memorial Garden.
Richard Copley.
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