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November 17, 2009
B.C. dodges Mother Nature
SFU earth scientist John Clague says B.C. is good at dodging Mother Nature’s earthquake bullets thanks to the fact her target is a major fault line running under the ocean far away from populated centres. Commenting on today’s massive tremor off the Queen Charlottes, Clague says if the earthquake had occurred further south along the same fault line near populated areas like San Francisco it could have been devastating.
John Clague, 778.782.4924, jclague@sfu.ca (available after 2:30 p.m. today)
Doom and gloom for grizzlies?
Low salmon runs in B.C.’s rivers have been raising questions about the long-term welfare of grizzlies. But SFU conservation biologist John Reynolds says there is good news for the bears with the return of the pink salmon, which have come back “with a vengeance” this season following record lows for the past two years.
John Reynolds, 778.782.5636; reynolds@sfu.ca
Youth elected at temple
At only nineteen, Gursimran Kaur, a second-year math student at SFU, has been elected to the management committee at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, one of the largest Sikh temples in North America. She is part of a victorious slate of young people who won a decisive victory in the temple’s election over the weekend. Kaur is a proponent of gender equality and fighting domestic violence – as well as re-establishing traditional customs.
Gursimran Kaur, 778.320.2424; gka18@sfu.ca (available after 3:30 p.m. today)
Candid cameras
Surveillance cameras are popping up like mushrooms around the city in the run up to the 2010 Olympics. A new SFU-sponsored art exhibit asks the question: what are the social, political and economic implications of those candid cameras? In cooperation with the Vancouver Public Space Network, SFU’s School of Communication will present Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle, Nov. 18-21 at the Interurban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings St., Vancouver. The free show features the work of more than 20 artists whose mixed-media installations explore the controversial theme of increased video surveillance in contemporary society. The exhibit coincides with “The Surveillance Games,” an international research workshop on Nov. 20-21 at SFU’s Vancouver campus at Harbour Centre.
Richard Smith, smith@sfu.ca
Carmen Hung, 778.882.4923, ckh3@sfu.ca
SFU earth scientist John Clague says B.C. is good at dodging Mother Nature’s earthquake bullets thanks to the fact her target is a major fault line running under the ocean far away from populated centres. Commenting on today’s massive tremor off the Queen Charlottes, Clague says if the earthquake had occurred further south along the same fault line near populated areas like San Francisco it could have been devastating.
John Clague, 778.782.4924, jclague@sfu.ca (available after 2:30 p.m. today)
Doom and gloom for grizzlies?
Low salmon runs in B.C.’s rivers have been raising questions about the long-term welfare of grizzlies. But SFU conservation biologist John Reynolds says there is good news for the bears with the return of the pink salmon, which have come back “with a vengeance” this season following record lows for the past two years.
John Reynolds, 778.782.5636; reynolds@sfu.ca
Youth elected at temple
At only nineteen, Gursimran Kaur, a second-year math student at SFU, has been elected to the management committee at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, one of the largest Sikh temples in North America. She is part of a victorious slate of young people who won a decisive victory in the temple’s election over the weekend. Kaur is a proponent of gender equality and fighting domestic violence – as well as re-establishing traditional customs.
Gursimran Kaur, 778.320.2424; gka18@sfu.ca (available after 3:30 p.m. today)
Candid cameras
Surveillance cameras are popping up like mushrooms around the city in the run up to the 2010 Olympics. A new SFU-sponsored art exhibit asks the question: what are the social, political and economic implications of those candid cameras? In cooperation with the Vancouver Public Space Network, SFU’s School of Communication will present Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle, Nov. 18-21 at the Interurban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings St., Vancouver. The free show features the work of more than 20 artists whose mixed-media installations explore the controversial theme of increased video surveillance in contemporary society. The exhibit coincides with “The Surveillance Games,” an international research workshop on Nov. 20-21 at SFU’s Vancouver campus at Harbour Centre.
Richard Smith, smith@sfu.ca
Carmen Hung, 778.882.4923, ckh3@sfu.ca