Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an internationally recognized media artist and scholar working at the intersections of multimedia and live performance with research foci in computational poetics and cross-cultural media performance. Dr. Dulic is a founder and a Director of Centre for Culture and Technology and an Assistant Professor in Computational Art at the Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan. Recent works include The Music of the Heaven performance, and the Social Life of Water exhibition.

Alex Lake is a fourth year EESC major with a minor in Biology. His role with Waterways involves historical mapping with geographic information systems and data analyses of quantitative water trends in the Okanagan region. He enjoys being outside, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

Alison Trim is a contemporary artist from Ireland whose practice is a response to place through paper-based media, and an exploration of line, surface and movement. She is currently involved in drawing research based on the environments encountered in the Okanagan, specifically in relation to rurality and the non-human. Her methodology explores physical traces, forms of mark making and responses to walking the land.

Emer is a fourth year Fine Arts student majoring in Visual Art for Digital Media and 2D design. With a background knowledge in Computer Science, she combines this with her creativity and eye for design to create unique user experiences. She is working on the design concepts and website design for this project.

The watershed that Felicia Watterodt calls home is the South Saskatchewan River Basin. She recently graduated from the University of British Columbia-Okanagan with a Bachelor of Arts, major in International Relations. As an undergraduate research assistant on the Waterways project, she conducted archival research on the historical ecology of the Okanagan watershed. Both Felicia’s interdisciplinary degree and her experience working on the Waterways project have inspired her passion for finding sustainable solutions in order to create resilient communities and healthy ecosystems.

Jeannette Angel is an Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate in creative practice who works as a researcher at the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of British Columbia in the Okanagan.. Her research focuses on creative, experiential approaches for community engagement in sustainability challenges. Recent projects include experience designer for a museum exhibition, The Social Life of Water in the Okanagan and an interactive display, Right of Way: Wildlife Corridors and Ecological Connectivity in the Okanagan.

Jeannette Armstrong is Syilx Okanagan, a fluent speaker of Nsyilxcn, a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation and a founder of En’owkin, the Syilx knowledge revitalization institution of higher learning. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures. Jeannette currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy at UBC Okanagan, and currently serves on Canada’s Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

An environmental anthropologist, Dr. John Wagner focuses especially on the role of agriculture in water governance systems. He also conducts research in Papua New Guinea where he has undertaken long-term research in Pacific Island customary property rights systems. John was a core member of the design team for The Social Life of Water.

Lael Parrott (PhD, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, McGill University) is a Professor in Sustainability at the I.K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience and Ecosystem Services (BRAES) at The University of British Columbia. Dr. Parrott leads an internationally recognized research program in modelling and characterising contemporary regional landscapes and ecosystems as complex human-environment systems.

Marlowe Sam is a Wenatchi/Lakes descendent from the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington State (CCT). He is currently an Instructor in Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. Marlowe majored in Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and received a B.A. and M.A. with distinction. He defended his doctoral dissertation “Oral Narratives, Customary Law and Indigenous Water Rights in Canada” to earn a Ph.D. majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC Okanagan during which he was the recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Miah Shull Olmsted is originally from the Chattahoochee River Basin (part of the larger Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Basin. She is new to the Okanagan Valley, having come from Australia, She is visiting these lands by invitation in order to study and conduct research. She is both undergraduate student and a staff member in the Department of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia - Okanagan. Her primary research interests include Visual Sociology, Environmental Science, and multi-media Climate Communication. She is actively developing her own Eco Art practice with work focused to include fusions of both artistic and scientific creativity. She has been an active citizen scientist for over three decades including marine conservation work (with a background in manta ray, shark, and sea turtle projects), citizen science initiatives, informal scientific learning projects (including co-teaching secondary field study courses in Costa Rica, Peru, the Great Barrier Reef, and US nesting beaches). She is a senior staff instructor for PADI with extensive experience leading environmental volunteers, SCUBA divers, and global film crews throughout Australian and Asian waters. Working in a land based freshwater environment via the UBCO Waterways project has been a wonderful way to get to know the local land, the watershed, and the people of the Okanagan Valley.

Miles Thorogood is an Instructor in Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia in the Okanagan. He is a creative technologist who specializes in generative systems for developing computational assistive technologies in creative industries. His research includes modelling human creative processes in visual and audio work for decision support systems, and designing autonomous agents for interactive environments. His work has been featured in public art installations, as well as at international conferences and festivals. Some notable highlights have been works for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Fraser River Discovery Centre, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, and the Vancouver PUSH festival.

Sarah Ellis, originally from Vancouver, British Columbia and is in her fourth year of her undergraduate degree specializing in 2-D design and digital media. As a part of this project, she is co-working with Emer on the design concepts, and website creation.

Trevor Richard is a student at UBC Okanagan working towards his Bachelors of Computer Science degree. He is an avid programmer who focuses on the creative side of technology and human computer interaction, most notably within the boundaries of website development.