Climate+Water Research Symposium - Day 1

Jeannette has an interdisciplinary PhD in environmental ethics in Syilx oral literatures from the University of Greifswald. Her research and study as Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy, and as the lead for the Adaptation, De-colonization, and Indigeneity research cluster under the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) is focused in contemporary applications of Syilx traditional knowledge in environmental ethics and practice from within the Syilx framework. 

John conducts research on human/water relations in the Okanagan Valley, the Columbia River Basin in Canada and the United States, and in Papua New Guinea. In his Columbia River Basin research, John focuses on water governance and the relationship of the Columbia River Treaty to irrigation, food security, food sovereignty and Indigenous rights. In the Okanagan Valley, he has conducted research on settler colonialism, the history of water management, and floodplain restoration as a climate change mitigation strategy. As a co-investigator for the Peachland Creek Watershed Ecosystems project, his focus is on watershed governance. 

Rheanne Kroschinsky is a water governance researcher currently pursuing her PhD at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Her work, made possible through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, explores governance and decision-making frameworks for community (source) watersheds in British Columbia. Through partnerships with Syilx communities and the District of Peachland, her research emerges from the UBC Okanagan Watershed Ecosystems Project, a community-engaged initiative focused on the Peachland Creek watershed. She also is a research assistant in the Watershed Science and Research Facilitation Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, building community partnerships and bridging institutional resources into community-identified watershed challenges. Rheanne is a Visiting Governance Research Fellow at the University of Victoria’s POLIS Water Sustainability Project, where her work is focused on the exploration of a watershed boards framework for British Columbian watersheds.