The next Comox Valley Naturalists Society meeting will feature Dr. William Marsh, who comes to British Columbia from the University of Michigan where from 1970 to 2000 he enjoyed a diverse career as an earth scientist, landscape planner, teacher, author and consultant. Marsh’s lecture will take a look at the critical interface of marine and terrestrial systems, where the interplay of wind, waves, currents and biological forces give rise to diverse, changeable environments and modern humans often function less as players and more as aliens.
Dr. William Marsh is a former Chairman of the Department of Earth and Resource Sciences and former Director of the Laboratory for Land and Water Management, both at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous papers on coastal environments, landscape planning and environmental management and is the author of several books including the classic Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications (5th ed.) from John Wiley publishers. Marsh joined the landscape architecture of UBC in 2000 and taught a summer planning and design studio here in the Valley, which was sponsored by the UBC Landscape Architecture Program and was billeted first at the UBC farm at Salmon Pt. and then at the Youth Hostel at Cumberland. It attracted a wide range of students, architects, landscape architects, planning and related fields. Marsh retired from teaching in 2015 and lives in the Pt. Holmes area of Comox.
This lecture, entitled: “On the Ragged Edge of Land and Water” will take place at the Florence Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton Ave, Courtenay at 7 pm September 18, 2016.
Lecture is free, though a $4 contribution from non-members is appreciated. New memberships are always welcomed.
