{"id":21,"date":"2018-10-22T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/geolab\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:33:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/geolab\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GeoREACH Lab supports Geo<\/strong>spatial Re<\/strong>search in A<\/strong>tlantic C<\/strong>anadian H<\/strong>istory and other projects of the Applied, Communications, Leadership & Culture (ACLC) program in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n

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The GeoREACH Team in Fall 2019. (L-R Amirah, Abby, Alexandra, Nolan, and Josh)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Director of the lab is Dr. Joshua MacFadyen<\/a>, Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities and faculty member in the ACLC program. In 2019 the lab members<\/a> included UPEI students Choyce Chappell, Bailey Clark, Abby Craswell, Nolan Kressin, and Amirah Oyesegun, visiting student and Killam Fellow Alexandra Neumann, and former student Nick Scott.<\/p>\n

The Lab’s current projects focus on the history of food and agriculture in Canada, and we study the ways that the modern food system has shaped our relationships with animals and the land. Prince Edward Island was a relative late adapter of modern industrial agriculture, and in many ways it is still going through this profound social-ecological transition. This presents an opportunity to interview, map, and otherwise study the causes and impacts of agro-ecosystem transformation in one place over time.<\/p>\n

In 2020 students are working on several studies including:<\/p>\n