Flood watch, green tourism, Alcan
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Travelling green
U.S. bid for Alcan
Cultural meaning or abhorrent act?
B.C. on flood watch
Provincial emergency officials and flood-threatened B.C. communities are waiting to see how warming spring weather will impact mountain snowpacks, some of which are the largest on record. SFU earth sciences professor John Clague can comment on the potential for flooding and what it would do to various regions of the province.
Earth sciences colleague Jeremy Venditti specializes in river morphology and flow processes in rivers. His current research involves creating a sedimentation model for the Fraser River to predict how the river channel will respond to flood flows. For more on his research see http://www.sfu.ca/~jvenditt/research.html
John Clague, 604.291.4924 (o); 604.351.4750 (c); john_clague@sfu.ca
Jeremy Venditti, 604.291.3488 (o), 604.767.2247 (c); jeremy_venditti@sfu.ca
Travelling green
Climate change is producing some new tourist attractions. Tours of glacial melting patches and related signs of global warming are beginning to take off. Research at SFU’s tourism centre is focusing on new trends in environmental tourism and consumer behaviour. Centre director Peter Williams can also comment on how travellers are responding to tourism’s impact on the environment.
Peter Williams, 604.291.3103; peterw@sfu.ca
U.S. bid for Alcan
If the American aluminum giant Alcoa’s hostile bid to absorb Alcan succeeds, it will be the largest foreign takeover of a Canadian company in the last few years. Many foreign companies have sought out resource-based firms in Canada. Steeve Mongrain, a public economist at SFU, can comment on why the competitive production costs of Canada’s resource-based industries are attracting U.S. attention and how such mergers could reduce the competitiveness of Canada’s resource-based industries.
Steeve Mongrain, 604.291.3547, steeve_mongrain@sfu.ca (also fluent in French)
Cultural meaning or abhorrent act?
Itrath Syed, a lecturer in Women’s Studies, can shed some light on ‘honour killings’ and the recent killing of a 17-year-old woman who was stoned to death by her family in Iraq. The girl was from the minority Kurdish Yezidi religious group and was allegedly killed because of her relationship with a Sunni Muslim boy.
Itrath Syed, 604.278.5101, itrath@shaw.ca