An article on island sustainability

Dr. Vodden from Memorial University sent me a link to a great article on island sustainability. This is very much my graduate research interest and I am more than happy to share it here.

Eva Murray is the resident of Matinius (I am pretty sure this is misspelled and it should be Matinicus) Island in Main, USA. Her text Having the right stuff is not enough: Some thoughts on sustainability dispels several myths often associated with island communities in particular and the notion of sustainability in general.

Greg Walsh – a Newfoundland archivist and musician

This interview originally appeared on Memorial University of Newfoundland podcast on November 21, 2008. Greg Walsh is the recipient of the 2008 Horizon Award recognizing an extraordinarily successful young alumni. At the age of 33, he is the youngest provincial archivist in Canada and a musician and songwriter coming from a long line of traditional Newfoundland musicians. I hope you enjoy the full interview. It runs at about 8 minutes and in the background you can hear one of Walsh’s songs, The Passing of the Years. I find his story about his community and his commitment to his work fascinating.

Small Islands Project Fundraising Drive

The fundraising contest page for the project is up and running. Please consider supporting this project. The amount of funding available for documentary photography is very, very limited and the current media environment is not exactly friendly towards documentary photography either. Websites such as this one are your best bet to see stories and photographs exploring issues and places that often get overlooked. These are the stories of real people and real places, for some of you close to home for others a world away. I believe that this is an honest way of raising money – if you like what you see, read and hear, make a small contribution and have fun with the contest.

Island Doctor

A diminutive, wiry man, Dr. Jesus Dapena moves around his small hospital on Grand Manan island with the purposefulness and ease born of almost four decades of service. He is immaculately dressed with the flare of a toreador: maroon pants, elegant leather shoes and colourful tie offsetting his white shirt and a subdued tweed jacket.

“It’s nothing,” he assures one of his patients who complains of pain in her wrist. “It’s a sprained wrist. You did not break anything. Take it easy,” he orders brusquely. The lady he is talking to is well over 70. She says she did not do much of anything except lift baskets of wet laundry.

Mapping the ocean floor off the coast of Grand Manan island

This short radio piece was developed in July of 2007 for the Information Morning show airing weekday mornings at CBC Radio 1 in Saint John. John Hughes Clarke is a UNB professor at the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics.