……
with SALUTATIONS to several professionals, lake stakeholders, local academia,
and other government officials numbering over four hundred (400) that are
addressed and/or Bcc’d here:
Very
important:-- Kindly remember that most government agencies (municipal,
provincial, and federal); some hired consultants paid for by the HRM and/or by
the Province; numerous local academia and/or their grad and undergrad students;
as well as a whopping number of independent stakeholder and/or ratepayer groups
located within the following political districts of HRM, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, have all utilized, for their benefit, parts
of my personal Intellectual Property (IP) and other research as well as portions
of the combined limnological research of my team, the Soil & Water
Conservation Society of Metro Halifax with the Master Homepage URL of http://lakes.chebucto.org/!
In return, none
of us received any tangible benefits with just three minor exceptions only,
alas!
It is akin to
politicians and bureaucrats as well as well paid professors working for totally
free in perpetuity!
In the case of
stakeholder and/or ratepayer groups, as time unravels, I am finding (mostly
indirectly) that some/lot of their scientific work is carried out by university
students supervised by their professors and not by the volunteers themselves
(volunteers just provide some local mechanical support); some of that academia
in turn used parts of our IP research, even that which carries strict
restrictive “LEGAL COVENANTS” which anyone with a Grade-12 English education
must and should understand!
Only a handful
took my permission as required per the attached `legal covenants’ to the portion
which is my `IP’!
That also
includes a major predictive TP/Cha model that I developed single-handedly
that seems to have been utilized in the latest study for BEDFORD WEST which is
on HRM’s Regional Planning web page; perhaps that is why, the Dalhousie
University research team contacted me a few times during years 2003 and 2004 for
info on my predictive modelling and I have records of the emails as well as of
even lengthy phone conversations!
Proper
predictive modelling (not just for TP/Cha but also for other stressors) is
mandatory since what is the point in crying after the
fact?!!
Pragmatic
restoration of lakes to their pre-development `natural background values’ is
never guaranteed in perpetuity and may be uneconomic in almost all the cases,
anyway!
Further, the
vast number of `professional municipal/provincial regulators’ are NOT getting it
at all about the inter-dependant chemical and biological processes that take
place in a lake!!
(This email is
not about fecal coliforms, though, which can vary day-to-day, from one part of
the lake to the other, as any good environmental microbiologist can tell
you)!
It is not some
professional civil engineering or planning disciplines at
all!!
The only way to
understand it all, as I said numerous times since as long back as 1987, is to
obtain professional accreditation in
It is not enough
for a person to even possess a doctoral degree in whatever discipline, that does
not make an expert in practical lake management! It is not theoretical science
though theory is a pre-requisite!
There are
various professional levels that one obtain within the domain of lake
management; most independent non-Government bodies that give such accreditations
exist in the
But some do
allow taking exams and being PEER-REVIEWED by
mail!
What these
institutions will do is check in detail one’s formal university transcripts as
well as practical experience in lake
restoration/management!
==== I
SUGGEST ALL OF YOU EITHER ENCOURAGE OTHERS OR TRY YOURSELVES TO OBTAIN SUCH
ACCREDITATIONS! ====
Further some
scientific societies do give accreditations at various levels/degrees of
specialty as well, not all at a super high
level!
PS: I am not alluding here to
some world class research by famous and multiple-award winning scientists like
Dave Schindler, Bob Wetzel, Gene Likens, Noel Hynes, Richard Vollenweider, and
others who are an exception. I am referring more to day-to-day
aspects!
Shalom M.
Mandaville Post-Grad Dip.,
Chair &
Scientific Director (902-463-7777)
Soil &
Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax
(SWCSMH)