ESSA’s Darcy Pickard recently had her term as co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s Technical Advisory Committee on Science and Knowledge renewed for an additional two years. The Committee’s focus in 2019 was to provide advice and input to support development of initial guidance […]

On November 17, 2020 Oregon, California, the Yurok and Karuk Tribes and the Klamath Dam owner Berkshire Hathaway-PacifiCorp agreed to provide additional resources and support for dam removal to advance the largest dam removal, river and fish population restoration project in US history. This involves […]

Originally established in 2016 as an annually funded award, the Paul Higgins Simon Fraser University (SFU) Resource and Environmental Management Graduate Award was endowed this year. Paul was committed to environmental management and sustainable development in BC. With 30 years of experience working on the impacts […]

A new report published by ESSA scientists, in collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), provides guidance for Indigenous communities developing regional hydro-climatic monitoring programs: “Hydro-Climatic Monitoring Roadmap: A guide to enabling hydro-climatic monitoring for Indigenous Communities”. This report (accessible via the CIER […]

We believe in the merits of adaptive management (AM) and ESSA has been practicing it since our origin as a company over 40 years ago. Recently, we have been motivated to find different ways of engaging with the people with whom we work and to […]

Jimena Eyzaguirre was appointed as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) Expert Panel on Natural Disaster Resilience. The distinguished, multidisciplinary panel is comprised of 13 members from across Canada with extensive expertise, experience, and leadership in emergency management, disaster risk assessment, preparedness […]