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Papers by Lyn Baldwin

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 2017

Naturalists argue that the greatest threat to the natural world may be our "extinction of experie... more Naturalists argue that the greatest threat to the natural world may be our "extinction of experience" with it. We know that place matters, but what can work to restore care between people and place? In this article, I will argue that illustrated journals can reinvigorate our experience with the world. By including text and image, science and art, illustrated journals incorporate different ways of knowing. Drawing draws us into the world as we pay attention to easily missed details. Writing complements drawing by providing a space for synthesizing or imagining about the observed. Like any skilled practice, journaling transforms our understanding of the world. My illustrated field journals began when I sensed that care for today's world demanded more tools than what my training as an ecologist, alone, could offer. Illustrated journaling can begin with a few simple drawing and writing exercises-several of which I will describe in this article. As an immersive practice in place, the process of illustrated journals matters more than the product. Page by page, illustrated journals recognize the interpretive encounters so foundational to worldmaking and, in doing so, cultivate the deep attention to, and experience of, the world that is our first step toward care.

What threads, if any, weave between place-based education and education’s need to address the Tru... more What threads, if any, weave between place-based education and education’s need to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action? In a culturally diverse educational institution such as TRU, is there a path that educators of settler and Indigenous descent can walk together in order to reconcile place? The work of Truth and Reconciliation is not easy and risks such pitfalls as cultural taxation on Indigenous colleagues as well as unintended violation of traditional protocol. This roundtable presentation will describe how a group of TRU educators from diverse backgrounds and disciplines recognized that a potential first step in this journey was to build compassion for and understanding of each other. Given that the one thing we all knew how to do was read (perhaps unsurprising given our occupations), we decided to read, in a book club format, two documents simultaneously: Secwepemc People, Land and Laws by Marianne and Ron Ignace and the Truth and Reconciliation Com...

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2018

See Articles by Zghaib et al and Zghaib et al A rrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (A... more See Articles by Zghaib et al and Zghaib et al A rrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a progressive disease characterized by replacement of cardiomyocytes by adipose and fibrous tissue. 1 Our ability to predict outcomes and guide therapies on the basis of noninvasive evaluations is limited. In the current issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, investigators from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and Utrecht University in The Netherlands present their discoveries in the use of strain imaging in the management of patients with ARVC.

This paper explores current practices for teaching the discipline of keeping field notes within a... more This paper explores current practices for teaching the discipline of keeping field notes within academic natural history courses. We investigate how journal projects can be structured to promote engagement with the natural world while emphasizing the importance of recording accurate and honest observations. Particular attention is paid herein to the assignment of field notes, and to the process of assessing the results of these assignments. Our discussion includes results from an informal survey of best practices among colleagues representing numerous natural history disciplines.

The impacts of 20 years of riparian headwater stream management, in the Montane Spruce zone (MSxk... more The impacts of 20 years of riparian headwater stream management, in the Montane Spruce zone (MSxk2), were evaluated near Kamloops, BC, Canada. The purpose of our research was to examine the effectiveness of different riparian canopy treatments (clear-cut, one-sided buffer, two-sided buffer and continuous forest) and buffer width in maintaining riparian vascular plant and bryophyte diversity within the riparian zone and in promoting community reassembly post harvest in the adjacent uplands. We examined 30 riparian sites in B.C. Interior Montane Spruce forests. Bryophyte, vascular plant and shrub diversity were determined using a nested sampling design. Generalized linear models indicated that the bryophyte community in clear-cut riparian areas was significantly different than the bryophyte community found in riparian sites with a buffer (one sided and two-sided) or in continuous forest, however the response varied among bryophyte functional groups. In general, the frequency and richn...

Journal of Vegetation Science

Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching

In May 2007, the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Science established an ad hoc subcommittee... more In May 2007, the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Science established an ad hoc subcommittee to develop a new student ratings of teaching survey. The final survey, approved by the Faculty in February 2011, includes statements categorized in the dimensions of teaching shown in previous studies to be correlated with student achievement. The survey is learner-centred, discipline and pedagogically neutral, and includes only items that can be reasonably evaluated by students. The survey consists of 40 items including eight statements of student background information, 32 statements to rate on a six-point Likert scale, and four open-ended questions. We demonstrated that a faculty group with no formal training in survey design and informed by the literature, can, in collaboration with faculty, develop a survey established as having a high degree of inter-rater reliability.

Canadian universities are increasingly called upon to internationalize their curriculum; we argue... more Canadian universities are increasingly called upon to internationalize their curriculum; we argue, however, that internationalization of the curriculum needs to be supplemented by place-based teaching. Place-based studies focus on layers of meaning found right beneath our feet and explore how localized understanding can enrich experiences. Thus eight faculty from diverse disciplines at our university formed a community of practice to investigate how our disciplines address place and how we embrace (or fail to embrace) place within our teaching. This essay presents the results of our investigations while preserving our individual voices to highlight the multivocality of place, itself. Our disciplines take widely divergent approaches to both the concept and specifics of place; however, we recognized in each of our disciplines a widespread neglect of place. We found that our engagement with place in our teaching manifests in varied ways-embracing the concrete and the abstract, the theoretical and the experiential. However, the common thread running through all of our teaching is that place matters because it encourages new ways of questioning and being in the world.

Concurrency Practice and Experience, Feb 17, 2014

ABSTRACT This paper explores current practices for teaching the discipline of keeping field notes... more ABSTRACT This paper explores current practices for teaching the discipline of keeping field notes within academic natural history courses. We investigate how journal projects can be structured to promote engagement with the natural world while emphasizing the importance of recording accurate and honest observations. Particular attention is paid herein to the assignment of field notes, and to the process of assessing the results of these assignments. Our discussion includes results from an informal survey of best practices among colleagues representing numerous natural history disciplines.

Journal of College Science Teaching, Nov 1, 2010