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th 59 Annual Meeting of the Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers Co- hosted by WWU and UFV March 3-4, 2017 March 3, 2017 On behalf of the Geographers at the University of the Fraser Valley and Western Washington University, we welcome you to 2017 Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Our goal for this year’s conference has been to offer and attract a stimulating, diverse, and engaging array of papers, posters, and field trips. We hope that you are able to take part in one of the field excursions. The 49 papers, 47 posters, and the keynote and banquet speeches presented this weekend further demonstrate the wide breadth and diversity of material that geographers, planners, earth scientists, geologists, foresters, resource managers, planners, anthropologists, computer scientists, biologists, and others contribute to geographic knowledge. Many of these papers and posters also represent excellence in research by undergraduate and graduate students. We look forward to presenting awards for the best student research paper and poster presentations on Saturday night at the banquet. In addition, we welcome all participants to join us at the Friday night social and Saturday night’s banquet. On Saturday night, we will convene at the Quality Inn and Conference Centre, 36035 North Parallel Road, Abbotsford, BC for dinner, awards, the banquet speech, music and dancing. We hope you enjoy your stay on campus and in Abbotsford. Sincerely, The WDCAG 2017 Organizing Committee WWU UFV Patrick Buckley, Professor, Department Steven Marsh, Associate Professor, Geography Environmental Studies: Geography and the Environment Andrew Bach, Associate Professor, Department Claire Hay, Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies: Geography the Environment Gigi Berardi, Professor, Department Garry Fehr, Director, Agriculture Centre of Environmental Studies: Geography Excellence Aquila Flower, Assistant Professor, Department Nicole Klassen, Manager, Academic & Environmental Studies: Geography Administrative Services, College of Arts David Rossiter, Assistant Professor, Department Sarah McLean, Department Assistant, Geography Environmental Studies: Geography and the Environment Madelaine Bourdages, Undergraduate Student, Geography and the Environment ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The WDCAG organizing committee would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following people and institutions: Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University; Canadian American Studies, Western Washington University; Department of Geography and the environment, University of the Fraser Valley, and Dean of the College of Arts, University of the Fraser Valley. We would like to thank the following individuals for leading field trips: Dr. Terah Sportel, Dr. Garry Fehr, and Sonny McHalsie (Cultural advisor/historian at Sto:lo Research and Resource Management Centre). And finally, we would like to acknowledge the numerous student volunteers from both WWU and UFV for assisting with the conference. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday March 3 8.00am – 4.00pm Registration (Road Runner café, A-building) 8.30am Field trips (field trips leaves area adjacent to Envision Athletic Centre); Please check in at the Registration Desk prior to field trip departure) 4.30pm – 7.00pm Registration (adjacent to B101) 5.30pm – 7.00pm Keynote Speaker (B101 Lecture Theatre) 7.00pm – 10.00pm Informal Social (Finnegan’s Pub, 33780 King Road, Abbotsford) – only those 19 years and older may attend this event; a selection of appetizers will be available at 7.30pm and 8pm. Saturday March 4 8.00am – 8.30am Registration (S-Building) 8.00am – 8.30am Coffee (S- Building) 8.30am – 10.00am Morning Session I: Concurrent Paper and Poster Sessions (D-building/S-building) 10.00am – 10.30am Refreshment Break (S-Building) 10.30am – 12.00pm Morning Session II: Concurrent Paper and Poster Sessions (D-building/S- building) 12.00pm – 1.00pm Lunch (S- Building) 12.00pm – 1.00pm WDCAG Executive Meeting (C1429) 1.00pm – 2.30pm Afternoon Session I: Concurrent Paper and Poster Sessions (D-building/S- building) 2.30pm – 3.00pm Refreshment Break (S-Building) 3.00pm – 4.30pm Afternoon Session II: Concurrent Paper and Poster Sessions (D-building/S- building) 4.45pm – 6.15pm WDCAG Annual General Meeting (room D219 6.00pm – 11.00pm Banquet (Quality Inn, 36035 North Parallel Road, Abbotsford); room/cash bar opens at 6pm, welcome and speeches at 6.30pm, dinner served at 7pm sharp; banquet speaker at 8.15pm and dancing from 9pm) SESSION DETAILS Poster Session - Building S, Great Hall Posters are to be in place prior to 10am and will remain in the Great Hall until 4:30. Use the ID Number for locating your poster display board in the Great Hall. Judging will take place from 10-10:30am, 12:30- 1pm and 2:30-3pm. 1) Marina Aitcheson: Open for Discussion: Foucauldian Analysis of Life as a UVic Geography Student (U) 2) Danika Anderson, Erin Bedard, et al: Student and faculty perspectives on QGIS vs ArcGIS in an introductory undergraduate geomatics course (U) 3) Jackson Baron: Fusing Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Invasive Species Classification in Remote Sensing Imagery (U) 4) Madelaine Bourdages, Steven Marsh, et al: Seasonal Variability of Geochemistry in the Fraser River, British Columbia (U) 5) Duncan Chalmers: Nous Venons D'Afrique – Race, Biopolitics, and African Immigration to France (U) 6) Gabrielle Hasenyager: Environmental Equity in the Borderlands: Comparing the Distribution of Environmental and Economic Burdens in the Salish Sea Basin (U) 7) Shyna Kanda, Sharon Gillies: Analysis of Decomposition Rates of Green and Yellow Knotweed Leaves (U) 8) Shyna Kanda, Alayna Miller, et al: Factors relating to the Decomposition Rates of Japanese Knotweed and Thimbleberry (U) 9) Brooke Kapeller, Hester Jiskoot: Red Rock Coulee Natural Area Sandstone Concretions: Mapping, Measuring, and Analysis (U) 10) Joel Knoop, Kailyn Wiebe: Uncertainty in the Athabasca (U) 11) Lily F. Murock, Sam C. Schultz: The Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Costa Rican Coffee Farmers (U) 12) Rachel Jampole, Molly Blower, et al: A thematic representation of at risk bird and plant species of Island View Beach, Victoria B.C. (U) 13) Casey Kilroy; Kevin Moradi, et al: Comparing and Contrasting Indigenous-Government Treaties in Canada and the United States (U) 14) Severin Rolland-Berge: The effects of oil spills on the critical habitat for both Chinook salmon and Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) in the Salish Sea (U) 15) Katharine Sell: Coral Reef and Mangrove Ecosystem Co-occurrence, Protected Areas, and Sea Turtle Breeding Sites along the Coast of Kenya, Africa (U) 16) Alanna Strangway Steven Marsh, et al: Geochemistry Report for Clayburn Creek Watershed in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada (U) 17) Jiajun Zhang: The 96 B-Line in Metro Vancouver: A Study on Transit-Efficiency and Ridership Improvement (U) 18) Jamie Shippit, Dr. David Hill: Reflecting on Protein: Assessing Forage Nutrition through Spectral Signatures (M) 19) Ike Bancroft, Ava Buss, Shane Crawford: Transnational Native Whaling Laws of the Northeastern Pacific (U) 20) Shane Carter, Darren Levrault, et al: Solar Development in China 21) Alexandra Groeneweg, Steven Marsh, et al: Seasonal Variations of Water Quality in Stoney Creek, Abbotsford BC 22) Amanda Harley, Mekena Harvey, et al: Management and Preservation of a Bioregion that Spans an International Border: The Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park 23) Bruce Pagnucco: A Creative Cities Analysis of Artists in Vancouver 24) Dianne Paulson, Steven Marsh, et al: Water Chemistry and Indicator Bacteria in Clayburn Creek Watershed - Fall 2016 (U) 25) Nathan Roueche, Christa Kohnert, et al: Assessing the influence of local climate on regional variation in the fruit fly Rhagoletis zephyria 26) Narain Spolia: The Commodification of Rural Landscapes for Resort Communities: A study of capital interests versus socio-environmental interests 27) Miranda Taylor, Audrey McHugh: NAFTA: The Real Winners and Losers 28) Shae Turner, Mariano Mapili: Land-use transitions and biodiversity shifts: the case of birds in the Sumas Prairie of British Columbia 29) Jason A. Kowal: Between a Snake and a Crocodile: A Spatial Analysis of the Stateless Rohingya People 30) Nicholas J. Roberts, Robin McKillop, et al: Landslide-generated wave geomorphology at Chehalis Lake, B.C. 31) Alanna Ewert: A Polycentric Policy Analysis and Assessment of Solutions for the Skagit River Water Wars 32) Madison K. Guthrie: A Dendroglaciological Investigation of Late Holocene Behaviour at Forrest Kerr Glacier, British Columbia Coast Mountains 33) Claire Irvine: Implementing sustainability in rural tourism as a way to minimize the negative impacts of commodifying landscapes (U) 34) Lindsey Jepsen: From Cows to Cabins: The Commodification of Ranches (U) 35) Joy Marconato, Geraldine Jordan, et al: Using Surface Analysis to Characterize Slope and Aspect of Quercus garryana Research Exclosures on Salt Spring Island, BC (U) 36) Joy Marconato et. al.: Using Surface Analysis to Characterize Slope and Aspect of Quercus garryana Research Enclosures on Salt Spring Island, BC (U) 37) Evie Morin: Mapping Invasive Marshpepper Knotweed in McMillan Lake in Langley, British Columbia 38) Sarah Speight: Evaluating Food Donation Quality in the Fraser Valley 39) Matthew G. Strelau: Spatial Relationship between Anthropogenic Trails and Daphne Laurel on Salt Spring Island, BC (U) 40) Huayun Wang: The Accessibility of Elementary Schools