Postdoctoral Researcher in Carbon Sequestration, Arizona State University Stephanie is a climate science expert. Her research has a focus on using natural archives to understand past climates, the relationship between drought and dust, carbon dioxide removal, and the certification of carbon sequestration. She holds a BSc in Earth Science from the University College Cork, Ireland, an MSc in Climate Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Ph.D. Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability from Northern Arizona University. Stephanie currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University.
PhD Candidate, Indiana University Salih Yasun is a Ph.D. student with a focus on Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. He holds a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics from Indiana University (2019). Salih’s research focuses on local governance, democratization and property rights within the Middle East and North Africa, and his work appeared in Women’s Studies International Forum Journal. He employs both quantitative and qualitative methods in his research, including fieldwork, survey data analysis, interviews, archival and ethnographic dimensions.
Masters Student, Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa I have obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Management at Carleton University and starting a MA in Human Kinetics in Fall 2023 at the University of Ottawa. I have numerous years of experience in lifeguarding, swim instructing, teaching first aid training, playing water polo and doing synchronized swimming. Aquatic safety is something that I am very passionate about and my goal is to increase water safety awareness to the greater population.
Professor emeritus, UNSW Sydney Professor Sue Hand is a vertebrate palaeontologist researching the history of Australian mammals, continuing climate and environmental change in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, implications of that change for forest and island faunas, and the biodiversity, global relationships and evolutionary ecology of bats. Her research interests are largely in the area of palaeontology, phylogenetics and biogeography, and specifically taxonomy, systematics, morphometrics, phylogenetics, biocorrelation, biogeography, palaeogeography, evolutionary biology and palaeoecology. Her area of special interest is fossil and modern bats, a major component of Australasia's living and fossil faunas, representing a quarter of Australian mammal species. In these research areas, she has supervised/co-supervised 45 Honours, 3 Masters and 25 PhD students. A key focus of the UNSW palaeontology group is the study of the fossil-rich Cenozoic faunas of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland. She has served on the Australian Research Council's Biological and Biotech Science Committee for ERA 2018, and ARC College of Experts 2019-2021
Associate Professor, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University Sonya Graci is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also the Director of the Ted Rogers School of Management Institute for Hospitality and Tourism Research.Dr. Graci’s research focuses on capacity development, collaboration and partnerships, corporate social responsibility, leadership, resilience and entrepreneurship. She has lead numerous projects focused on sustainability in destinations such as Honduras, Indonesia, Canada, Fiji and China. Dr. Graci has focused much of her research on Indigenous tourism development with a focus on sustainable livelihoods. Dr. Graci is the author of two books, one which is Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations (Graci and Dodds, 2012) and several journal articles and industry publications. She is also the Director of Accommodating Green, a boutique consultancy that focuses on developing sustainability strategies for businesses and destinations.
