Projects Recently Undertaken by R.W. Sandford

R.W. Sandford

Interpreters of Natural & Human History Ltd.

Projects

2007-2010

Visit www.thinkwater.ca to view the national public service campaign developed by the Global Television Network in Canada in association with the United Nations Water for Life Decade.

Oct 2007 in Literary Review Canada. Bob Sandford's review of Eau Canada: The Future of Canada’s Water Karen Bakker, editor.

Bob provides consultation to the Alberta Water Research Institute, a part of the Alberta Ingenuity Institute family of research organizations advancing science and technology related to water and water-related issues in western Canada. Please see www.waterinstitute.ca for further details.

He is a member of the climate change science advisory network for the Columbia Basin Trust, an organization committed to enriching communities and the future in the Columbia River Basin in British Columbia. For further information please see www.cbt.org.

Bob is on the editorial advisory committee on water and related issues for Corporate Knights, a Canadian magazine committed to corporate responsibility. Visit www.corporateknights.ca for more information.

Bob contributed to writing, and performed in the four-part video series "Every Drop Counts", a learning partnership orchestrated by Alberta Irrigation Projects Association. Four highly engaging video episodes follow the adventures of a group of Grade Eight students who are encouraged by their teacher to discover more about water and to develop their own interest in contemporary music by entering a song-writing contest in support of the United Nations Water for Life Decade.

Bob has finished the first book ever written on the Canadian Rockies World Heritage Site, which includes Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay National Parks and Mount Robson, Hamber and Mount Assiniboine Provincial Parks in British Columbia. This book is published by Athabasca University Press and was launched in May of 2010.

The geographical area of prime interest of the Western Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative is the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the basins of rivers that have their origins in these mountains. These rivers include the North and South Saskatchewan, the Athabasca, Peace, Fraser and Columbia and the upland tributaries that are part of their basins. Bob is Executive Director of this organization. Visit wwcrc.ca for more information.

In 2001 Bob won the Summit of Excellence Award for his ongoing efforts to communicate the sense of mountain place throughout his community, region, country and around the world.

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