{"id":639,"date":"2015-01-06T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serchapter2018.wpengine.com\/ontario\/?p=639"},"modified":"2015-01-06T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:50:20","slug":"john-riley-jan14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/2015\/01\/06\/john-riley-jan14\/","title":{"rendered":"John Riley &#8211; Speaker Series in Guelph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Riley will be in Guelph on Wednesday January 14 providing a guest speaker presentation.<br \/>\nChief Science Advisor to the Nature Conservancy of Canada and author of &#8220;The Once and Future Great Lakes Country&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, January 14, 2015<br \/>\nat 11:30 am<br \/>\nLandscape Architecture building, Room 125<\/p>\n<p>John L. Riley is chief science advisor, Nature Conservancy of Canada. He has had careers as a botanist, geologist, ecologist, and conservation professional with the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Geological Survey, and Ontario Nature. He lives in Mono, Ontario. Riley&#8217;s talk will describe the history of environmental change in the Great Lakes basin, including massive declines in flora and fauna to recent increases in nature protection and re-wilding. His talk will introduce the audience to the diversity and uniqueness of the Great Lakes country and its many people from pre-contact to present. This environmental and cultural history will appeal to anyone who wants to design for the region&#8217;s landscapes in a well-informed way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Riley will be in Guelph on Wednesday January 14 providing a guest speaker presentation. Chief Science Advisor to the Nature Conservancy of Canada and author of &#8220;The Once and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}