Erik J Blair

I transitioned into SCARP after finishing my BA across the street in the Department of Geography in 2009. Before coming to UBC, I received a Certificate in Recording Arts and a Diploma in Audio Engineering at the Centre for Digital Imaging and Sound in Burnaby, BC. I have a wide range of experience that I bring to SCARP: Audio engineering and acoustic ecology, energy conservation education, social marketing development and research, eco-tourism management, alternative energy and resource management research. I've always been passionate about alternative energy, ecosystem management and media communications. For me, SCARP is a place to understand and develop methods for integrating the management of resources, transportation, land use, and energy. Since coming to SCARP, I have also developed an interest in the use of multimedia in planning, with a particular interest in the use of participatory filmmaking and social media to encourage deep thought about the water and energy crises. I'm not far from home at UBC, and if you can't find me at SCARP, I'm out exploring my beautiful province by land, sea and snow!

2012 (Current) Web Development, Centre fro Human Settlements, UBC 2011 (Current) Graduate Research Assistant, Social Media and Energy Conservation Campaigning (Do It In The Dark) (Dr. Maged Senbel) 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Planning 540A: Omnibus Sustainability Planning (Dr. Timothy McDaniels) 2011 Communications, Healthy Oceans Intern - The David Suzuki Foundation (Sup. Maged Senbel) 2011 Graduate Research Assistant - Active Transportation Collaboratory (Sup. Dr. Larry Frank, Andrew Devlin) 2010 Manager - North Shore Kayaks 2010 Community Investment Rep - BC Hydro Corporate Affairs 2009 Research Assistant - Income inequality in Vancouver 1970-2005 - Report submitted to Dept. of Geography (Sup. Dr. David Ley) 2009 Social marketing and behaviour change research - Report submitted to the One Earth Initiative (partner Dr. Vanessa Timmer)

Theory and methods of urban design (Maged Senbel); Omnibus: Becoming a good sustainability practitioner (Tony Dorcey); Planning history and theory (Leonie Sandercock); Advanced Quantitative Methods (Ari Goelman); Media Planning (Jon Frantz); Water Resources Planning (Tony Dorcey); Transportation Theory (Larry Frank); Qualitative Methods; Integrated Design and Planning Facility Feasibility (Penny Gurstein); Preparing for an Internship (Tony Dorcey); Food Policy in Planning (Wendy Mendes); Ecological Restoration Strategies (UVic - Clint Smyth)