Faculty and Staff: Scholarly Work, Research, and Creative Activity
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Portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in drug checking: Detection of carfentanil and etizolam in expected opioid samples
(Elsevier, 2021-11)Background: There has been a recent increase in adulteration of opioids with low concentration actives such as fentanyl analogues and benzodiazepines. As drug checking projects using vibrational spectroscopy continue to ... -
[Book review] Hope matters: Why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-10-01)Review of Hope Matters: Why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis, by Elin Kelsey (Vancouver: Greystone Books / David Suzuki Institute, 2020). -
A new quantitative drug checking technology for harm reduction: Pilot study in Vancouver, Canada using paper spray mass spectrometry
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-08-04)Introduction. Drug checking services for harm reduction and overdose prevention have been implemented in many jurisdictions as a public health intervention in response to the opioid overdose crisis. This study demonstrates ... -
Identifying and monitoring of forage fish spawning beaches in British Columbia's Salish Sea for conservation of forage fish
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2021-06-24)Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) and surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) are ecologically important forage fish in the marine food webs within the Salish Sea, including British Columbia (BC). Although important, ... -
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe
(Sage, 2021-05-28)This article starts by considering how ‘the talk’ that black and non-black minority families give to their children comes as a duty to transfer the wisdom of how to be invisible forward through generations. It is not ... -
Remembering Stanley King, architect extraordinaire
(Planning Institute of British Columbia, 2021-05)Profile of the Canadian architect Stanley King. -
Direct mass spectrometric analysis of naphthenic acids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in waters impacted by diluted bitumen and conventional crude oil
(Elsevier, 2021-04-15)The accidental release of hydrocarbons has well-documented, deleterious impacts on the hydrosphere. There are several classes of toxic petroleum derived compounds, such as naphthenic acids (NAs) and polycyclic aromatic ... -
Lessons of success from False Creek South and Granville Island
(Canadian Institute of PlannersAssociation of Canadian University Planning Programs, 2021-03-20)The 1970s were an exceptionally fertile policy period with respect to housing and community planning in Canada. Two manifestations are the creation of the unique inner-city neighbourhood of False Creek South in Vancouver, ... -
Teaching in the COVID-19 era: Understanding the opportunities and barriers for teacher agency
(University of the Free State, 2021-03-12)The school closures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic created a rapid shift to alternative modes of educational delivery, primarily online learning and teacher-supported home-schooling. This shift has revealed deep ... -
Explaining settlers to ourselves: Rethinking interpretive narratives at heritage sites
(British Columbia Historical Federation, 2021-03)Since the 1960s, Point Ellice House in Victoria has engaged visitors with stories of tea, croquet, romance, and high society. Of course, there’s much more to the site than tea on the lawn, as the Vancouver Island Local ... -
How 'smart' are smart cities?: The case of Sidewalk Labs, Toronto
(VIU Press, 2021-03)This article looks at the debate surrounding the smart city concept in theory and practice using the proposed Smart Labs development in Quayside, Toronto as a case study. My approach has been to familiarize myself with the ... -
Land as life: (Virtual) learning from Indigenous knowledge-keepers
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021)Land as Life is a community-led and created undergraduate course in the Faculty of Xwulmuxw/Indigenous Studies at Vancouver Island University that has been running for 18 years. Every year it is planned and created by local ... -
Building resilience in volunteer firefighters: Bridging the research to practice gap
(WorkSafeBC, 2021-01)There are approximately 14,000 firefighters in British Columbia (BC); notably, over 10,000 are volunteers or paid-on-call. The volunteer fire rescue services (FRS) globally tend to be vastly under-resourced in terms of ... -
Transcending adversity: Resilience in volunteer firefighters
(Emerald, 2020-12-08)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a theory of psychological resilience in volunteer firefighters. Design: Using a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) approach, the qualitative study engaged a purposive ... -
Graduate transitions: Canadian master's and PhD writing experiences
(Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, 2020-10-21)This exploratory study researches the experiences of Canadian graduate students as they pursue writing tasks for their degree. A better understanding of the difficulties Canadian graduate students experience in completing ... -
A field portable membrane introduction mass spectrometer with in-line standard infusion and sample heat exchanger for real-time monitoring of volatile organic compounds in aqueous samples
(Elsevier on behalf of KeAi Communications, 2020-09-22)Maintaining a steady sample temperature when analyzing real-time samples in the field is crucial for Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS). Diffusion through the membrane interface is temperature dependent, and ... -
Rapid and quantitative determination of fentanyls and pharmaceuticals from powdered drug samples by paper spray mass spectrometry
(Wiley-VCH, 2020-08-22)Paper spray mass spectrometry is presented as a direct, quantitative tool for the measurement of pharmaceutical drugs and a variety of fentanyl analogs in solid samples and powder slurries with the ultimate goal of ... -
[Pre-print] The importance of nature to city living during the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations and goals from environmental psychology
(Routledge, 2020-07-30)The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an opportunity for urban planners, government decision-makers, health practitioners, and environmental psychologists to further understand human psychosocial wellbeing in cities. Given ... -
[Pre-print] Sex- and context-specific associations between personality and a measure of fitness but no link with life history traits
(Elsevier, 2020-07-23)The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis posits that personality traits (i.e. consistent individual differences in behaviour) are linked to life history and fitness. Specifically, fast-paced individuals are predicted to be ... -
Writing the literature review: Graduate student experiences
(Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020-06-30)Difficulties with academic writing tasks, such as the literature review, impact students’ timely completion of graduate degrees. A better understanding of graduate students’ perceptions of writing the literature review ...
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