Norman Henderson

Executive Director

Norman Henderson is Executive Director of PARC and is responsible for the overall management of the organisation. He is also a Senior Research Associate with current research interests focused on climate change and forest management, climate change and nature conservation policy, and general climate change impacts and adaptation policy. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Henderson has previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Saskatchewan government, with a focus on economic development, energy and resources, and environmental issues. He lectured in environmental economics for seven years at the University of East Anglia, U.K. He has published in academic journals in the fields of environmental economics, resource management, public policy, environment, natural sciences, ecology, anthropology, management, and medicine. He has also published a book with Johns Hopkins University Press and published many editorials in newspapers in Canada, the United States and Australia.

D.J. (Dave) Sauchyn

Senior Research Scientist

Dave Sauchyn is the Senior Research Scientist at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC). He is also a Professor of Geography at the University of Regina, where he has been a faculty member since 1983. Dr. Sauchyn’s main research interest is in the climate of the past millennium in Canada’s western interior and what past climate can tell us about the climate to expect in the near future. He is involved in two National Centres of Excellence, the Sustainable Forest Management Network and the Canadian Water Network. He is a co-investigator in a five-year multi-disciplinary comparative study of institutional adaptation to climate change in northern Chile and the Canadian plains. He is also involved in an international training program in Rural Water Conservation in Chile. Dr. Sauchyn’s other international scientific activities include Canadian leader of International Geological Correlation Project #500, “Drylands Change: Past, Present and Future”. His international work has taken Dave to South Africa, Ukraine, Chile and throughout the USA.

Among his many affiliations, Dr. Sauchyn is Past-President of the Canadian Quaternary Association and the Canadian Geomorphological Research Group, a national director of the Canadian Water Resources Association, a member of the national advisory committee for the Climate Change Impacts Scenarios project, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In 2001, he received the John Warkentin Award for Scholarly Contributions of the Geography of the Western Interior and has been the Wiley / Royal Canadian Geographical Society Distinguished Guest Lecturer, the Kansas Academy of Science Distinguished Guest Speaker and the Owen Holmes lecturer at the University of Lethbridge.

For more information on Dr. Sauchyn visit:http://uregina.ca/~sauchyn/djs/

Ted Morris

Project Manager

Ted Morris is a Project Manager at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative. He oversees several projects, including the development of a web based, climate change adaptation decision support tool and a feasibility study for urban waste water and forestry management. In addition, Ted is also responsible for the overall IT infrastructure planning and deployment at PARC.

Ted was a co-editor of the “Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (Elsevier) and has previously worked as a project leader at the Office of Energy and Environment, U of R. His interests focus on climate change, energy efficiency, environmental stewardship and sustainable development initiatives in Canada and abroad.

Bonnie Pfeifer

Office Manager

As the PARC Office Manager, Bonnie’s main role is to provide administrative support to the Executive Director, Senior Research Scientist, Project Manager and Research Students, in addition to being responsible for the smooth day to day operations of the PARC main office.

Bonnie has been employed as Office Manager since 2005. She brings a wealth of expertise to the position as well as experience from being employed at the University of Regina’s Student Affairs office.