Julie Wilson, MSc
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Julie Wilson joined the VSSLR consortium in 2012 and currently acts as the Project Coordinator for Soil4Youth, and content developer for a new project (still under development), Geotagging – Augmented Reality Tool for the VSSLR. She brings an interdisciplinary skill set to environmental research, with a specialty in freshwater resources, watershed planning and management, and more broadly in environmental science. More recently Julie has become involved in science communication and outreach beyond the academic community. Julie is the Science Communication Research Coordinator of TerreWEB, an NSERC CREATE program at UBC. This program focuses on training graduate students researching global change to engage different audiences about their research using the wealth of tools and media available today, including online tools such as blogging, social media, games and video, but also emergent media, where students are using media in novel ways never done before.

Julie received a BSc in Science at UBC, majoring in Environmental Science with an Ecology specialization. She completed her MSc in the Resource Management and Environmental Studies program at UBC in 2011, and her research focused on watershed cumulative effects assessment in a heavily developed watershed of the Lower Fraser Valley. She has held several RA positions including most recently at the University of Saskatchewan, where she worked on watershed assessments of some of Canada’s major river basins (including the Athabasca River and the Yukon River).