Liza Piper is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta where she teaches Environmental and Canadian history. Her 2009 book, The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada, examines the role of industrial resource exploitation and science in the twentieth-century transformation of Subarctic environments. She has published widely on the history of fisheries, health, disease, nutrition, and climate in northern Canada and beyond. She supervises graduate students working on environmental and climate history, the history of resource exploitation including the oil industry, and northern and western Canadian history. She has also been an executive member, since 2007, of the Network in Canadian History and Environment, and in this capacity has run a regular student field trip to Banff National Park.
To listen to, watch, or read more about her work, check out the following links:
Nature’s Past Podcast
Episode 35: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part V – Fisheries, Regulation, and Science
Episode 19: Metropolitanism and Environmental History
Episode 12: Industrialization in Subarctic Environments
Climate and the Nature of Canada
Blog posts and online publications
Carnivorous Walrus as Country Food – ActiveHistory.ca
Of Mycobacterium and Men – Otter Blog
New Tools for Climate History – Otter Blog
“Nutritional Science, Health, and Changing Northern Environments.” In Big Country, Big Issues: Canada’s Environment, Culture, and History, Nadine Klopfer and Christof Mauch, eds. Rachel Carson Center Perspectives Series, 2011/4