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Catherine Conrad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Founder and Research Coordinator of the Community-Based Environmental Monitoring Network. Her research expertise involves stream sedimentation and water quality and community approaches to ecological monitoring. She can be reached at cconrad@smu.ca

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