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Pamela Gill said co-operation is a necessary part of fighting global warming.
Gill edited the Humber River Basin Project paper that won the best paper award for the Global Conference on Global Warming in Istanbul, Turkey earlier this month, one of three awards Sir Wilfred Grenfell College took home from the event.
"In terms of interdisciplinary initiatives, it shows working together for a common cause is worthwhile, that we can learn from each other," Gill said. "One example of that would be the Grenfell College Sustainability Committee. The sustainability committee has representation from not only Grenfell College, but a number of our partners and collaborators."
In addition Dr. Wade Bowers, leader of the Grenfell project group, was presented with an award in recognition of his organizational support to the conference as a member of the organization board.
The Humber River research team also won an award for "exemplary contribution" to the conference in advancing and promoting interdisciplinary science.
Along with Gill and Bowers, Dean Strickland, project manager for the basin project, history professor Rainer Baehre, geography professor Nick Novakowski, Joan Luther, a research scientist studying remote sensing, and Doug Piercey, a geoinformatics analyst, represented the Humber River project at the conference. Both Luther and Piercey work with Natural Resources Canada.
Marie Croll, a socio-cultural studies professor at Grenfell, chaired a session at the event, but wasn't part of the Humber River Basin Project - Grenfell's main delegation to the conference.
Gill said there are many different ways of seeing a problem, and bringing many people together to discuss the issues is a good way to plot a solution.
"Not everybody has all the answers," she said.
