Authors

Seth Cain, MA
Seth Cain has an MA in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University and a BSc in Forestry and Environmental Management from University of New Brunswick. Seth worked on the Energy Accounts for the Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index, and is currently a Policy Analyst with Natural Resources Canada.

Anthony Charles, Ph.D
Dr. Anthony (Tony) Charles is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, and a professor of Management Science and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary's University. He specializes in the interdisciplinary analysis of fisheries, aquaculture and coastal issues, with a focus on themes of sustainability and resilience, integrated indicator frameworks, community-based resource management, and ocean policy. Dr. Charles is the lead author of The Nova Scotia GPI Fisheries and Marine Environment Accounts.

Ronald Colman, Ph.D
Dr. Ronald Colman is founder and Executive Director of GPIAtlantic, a non-profit research group that is constructing an index of wellbeing and sustainable development for Nova Scotia as a pilot project for Canada. Dr. Colman previously taught for 20 years at the university level and was a researcher and speech-writer at the United Nations. He has researched and written many reports on indicators of population health, community wellbeing, natural resource health, and environmental quality. Dr. Colman advises governments and communities both nationally and internationally on indicator work, and regularly speaks on the subject to interested groups. Dr. Colman sat on the sustainable development indicators steering committee of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy in Canada, and is editor of a national magazine, Reality Check: The Canadian Review of Well-being.
Video Clips of Dr. Colman speaking at the Rethinking Development, June 2005

Colin Dodds, MA
Colin Dodds has an MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from Saint Mary's University in Halifax. He co-authored the GPIAtlantic reports on crime, income distribution and AIDS. Colin is the owner of Calorie Connect, an online diet and exercise service.

Karen Hayward, BA
Karen Hayward has been a researcher with GPIAtlantic since 2000. She has worked on a number of our research reports on in the area of population health, and in 2004 was the lead author of GPIAtlantic's The Costs and Benefits of Gaming report. Karen has a background in health and social work, and as a writer and editor of a number of publications.

Laura Landon, BA, BJ
Laura Landon is a journalist and editor who has worked with GPIAtlantic since 2002. She is writer and Managing Editor of Reality Check: The Canadian Review of Wellbeing, published by GPIAtlantic and the Atkinson Foundation. Laura has worked as a copy editor and writer on various other GPI-inspired projects, including Crude Costs, a 150-page report about the effects of inshore oil and gas drilling off Cape Breton, co-written with GPI researcher Linda Pannozzo. Laura also teaches copy editing at the University of King's College School of Journalism in Halifax.

Anne Monette, MES

Judith Lipp, MSc
Judith Lipp co-authored the Energy Accounts for the Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index. She is currently in the final year of her PhD at Dalhousie University where she is researching policy lessons for renewable energy development in Canada.

Todd Litman, MES
Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps to expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation techniques, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis. Todd is author of the Online TDM Encyclopedia, a comprehensive Internet resource for identifying and evaluating mobility management strategies. He has worked on numerous studies that evaluate the costs and benefits of various transportation services and activities. Todd is currently working on GPIAtlantic's Sustainable Transportation report.

Minga O'Brien, MSc
Minga has a Masters of Science in Ecology from Dalhousie University and a B.Sc. in Physical Geography and Environmental Science from the University of Toronto. She has worked as an environmental educator for Parks Canada and the Nova Scotia Nature Trust, carried out Forest Stewardship Council assessments of forest operations, co-authored the GPI Forest Accounts and worked with the provincial protected areas program. She nows works as the Forest Conservation Coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre. Her passions include natural history, soccer, backcountry skiing and, of course, forests and their conservation.

Linda Pannozzo, BSc, BEd, BJ
Linda Pannozzo has a background in environmental science, teaching and journalism. She has been a freelance journalist for nearly 10 years and between 1998 and 2001 was Executive Director of the student-run organization Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) at Dalhousie University. Linda is a researcher with GPIAtlantic, and has authored a number of our reports, including reports on forestry and work hours. Her current research is focused on education.

Mark Raymond, Ph.D
Mark Raymond is a professor of Economics at Saint Mary's University. His research interests are in resource and environmental economics. Much of his work focuses on applied partnerships with local government and business. Mark is currently working on an update of GPIAtlantic's Cost of Tobacco in Nova Scotia report.

Sean Rogers, Ph.D

Aviva Savelson, MA
Aviva Savelson has a Masters of Arts in Resource Management and Environmental Studies from the University of British Columbia. She is a researcher with GPIAtlantic and is currently working on three projects: the GPI Transportation Accounts: Sustainable Transportation in Nova Scotia, GPIAtlantic Headline Indicators Report and the GPIAtlantic database in cooperation with the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. Aviva was also a co-organizer of the 2005 Rethinking Development Conference. Other research she has been involved with includes: Welfare-to-work regimes in Canada and their impact on single mothers; health issues and barriers for Nova Scotia's culturally diverse communities, tobacco reduction programs for youth and the Georgia Basin Futures Project. She currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jennifer Scott, MES
Jennifer Scott studied Biology, International Development Studies, and Economics as an undergraduate student, then earned a Masters of Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. However, most of her real education happened while working on farms. She has worked part-time since 1998 as a GPIAtlantic agriculture analyst. She also started and runs Heliotrust. She loves trees, milk cows, raspberries, cycling, swimming, skiing, dancing, and making really good compost.

Sally Walker, Ph.D
Sally Walker received her doctorate in General Biology from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She has worked as a researcher, educator, and leader of non-profit organizations throughout her career. Her research includes environmental impact assessments, environmental influences on plant growth, and environmental accounting. From 1991-1997, Sally served as Director of the Discovery Centre, Nova Scotia's hands-on science centre, where she led the centre to a new location and a new phase of growth. Most recently, Sally was a senior researcher with GPIAtlantic , where she completed projects on economic costs of chronic disease, costs of physical inactivity, and sustainable transportation.

Jeff Wilson, BES

Sara Wilson, M.Sc.F.