Projects
Natural Environment Technology (NET) Training Program
Run between 2010-2014, this formal training program was developed with CEGEP St-Felicien, based on the core content from a recognized environmental technician college-level diploma program, enriched to include significant aspects of Cree culture, land use and traditional practices.
Coastal Habitat Comprehensive Research Program
This research program began in 2016. It is a collaboration between 5 separate teams representing six separate Canadian Universities. The Program seeks to better understand the local depletion of eelgrass beds, a keystone species of the marine environment in eastern James Bay. Th research seeks to create knowledge through extensive linkages between Cree Traditional Ecological Knowledge and western science.
Identification of Abandoned Mining Exploration Sites in Eeyou Istchee
This project began in 2005 and continues to this day. The project utilizes Cree traditional knowledge to inventory abandoned sites located throughout a territory the size of France. This framework has proven both efficient and effective, allowing a better targeted effort to identify sites and subsequently developing an action plan to clean them up. Sym consulting is providing technical support in the continued identification of sites, as well as a strategy to proceed with the clean-up.
