Category: Project
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Kamloops Museum exhibit explores wildfire through art
On Tuesday, August 6th, student RA Lauren Schneider and faculty project co-leader Cheryl Gladu spoke with CBC host Doug Herbert. The segment is titled “Kamloops Museum exhibit explores wildfire through art” and runs for 7:22 minutes.
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TRU researchers will study FireSmart uptake using new interactive museum exhibition
Thompson Rivers University researchers have teamed up with the Kamloops Museum and Archives to create a new interactive exhibit and research project that aims to learn more about community uptake of FireSmart principles. Hot Topic: A Cultural Mapping of the…
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Mapping local knowledge: TRU students guide fire awareness exhibition
Communities across B.C. are increasingly confronted with the challenges from wildfires, highlighting the pressing need for proactive engagement and education. In response to this need, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is inviting residents of Kamloops to participate in creating personal maps…
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Onboarding Activities for Student Researchers
Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program (May-June, 2025) Ethics To do Tools—finding them, using them Referencing Zotero is a handy, open-source (free) referencing tool that can help us store, annotate, and reference articles, websites, etc. This makes citations and the…
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The Future of Fighting and Preventing Forest Fires
From NPR’s public affairs program 1A, here’s a podcast on Wildfire, Mitigation Strategies, and Cultural Burning—provided here as background to our work on the Fire Smart Cultural Mapping Project. Abstract 80 years ago, Smokey the Bear was mostly talking about…