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TSE Seminar Series

An informal way to meet colleagues, professors, and guest speakers

Learn about ongoing research and issues related to the environment

Free and open to all members of the Trent community and the public


Chris Metcalfe, Professor Emeritus, Trent University

Climbing Kilimanjaro: Geology, Ecology and Physiology

Friday, October 6th, 3:00 pm, Champlain College M2

Chris Metcalfe was a Professor at Trent University for over 35 years and retired in 2021. He continues to teach for the TSE on a part-time basis. Chris' consulting firm, Ambient Environmental Consulting, provides services in water resource management, with a particular focus in Latin America and the Caribbean. He just returned from meeting in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago related to Water Safety Planning in those countries.

Chris is also the Editor in Chief of the Springer journal, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. However, in retirement he still has time to indulge his passion for playing music and for travel. In February of 2023 he travelled to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and to safari in the Serengeti.


A just food systems transition on the Indigenous lands of the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú, Brazil

Monday, October 16th, 3:00 pm, Location TBA

Mateus Tremembé is an Indigenous leader, researcher of Indigenous food systems, agroecological farmer, Agronomy student at UNILAB, and cultural knowledge keeper for the Tremembé people in Brazil.

The Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú Indigenous Lands are in Ceará, on the west coast, where the Indigenous villages of São José, Munguba, Buriti do Meio and Buriti de Baixo are located. Currently, 160 families live in these communities and have been fighting for their rights and for the demarcation of their sacred territory. Preparing traditional food has been central to this struggle, and is one of the main ways that Tremembé Indigenous culture is preserved and their relationship strengthened with Mother Earth, the provider of sacred food and healing. Producing healthy and ecological foods through Indigenous cultural practices has become a fundamental tool for the protection of knowledge, traditions, and lands for future generations.

In this talk, Mateus will talk about the Just Transition in Food Systems Project (in which the Tremembé is a project partner), and will share some of the traditional Tremembé practices that are the foundation for the agroecological transition and food sovereignty taking shape in the community.


Luiz Drude Lacerda, Federal University of Ceará, Institute of Marine Sciences, Brazil

Impacts of climate change on Hg mobilization and bioavailability

Thursday, August 3rd, 2:00 pm

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