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| The Sable Island Preservation Trust Board of Directors |
| Dr. Doug Pincock, Chair of the Board of Directors |
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Dr. Doug Pincock is the founder and Chairman of Amirix Systems, a Halifax-based electronic design company. Prior to founding Amirix in 1981, Dr. Pincock was a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the University of New Brunswick and the Technical University of Nova Scotia. His interest in the marine environment reaches back to a time when much of his research focused on acoustic tags to monitor behaviour and movements of fish - technology that was transferred in 1980 to Vemco Inc., of Shad Bay, NS (now a division of Amirix Systems) who sell the equipment to biologists around the world. Contact: chair@sabletrust.ns.ca |
| Chris Collier, Secretary/Treasurer |
 Chris
Collier, Treasurer of the Trust, is a Dalhousie Science graduate and
CMA who has spent most of his professional life in the Healthcare
sector. He has a lifelong interest in history, particularly in all
things nautical. As a scuba diver for over 25 years, he has also developed
an interest in the shipwrecks of Nova Scotia for which Sable Island
is famous. Chris hopes that participating directly in the preservation
of Sable Island will give him an opportunity to indulge some of his
passions as more than an observer. |
| April Hennigar, Director of Programs, Past Chair |
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Contact: programs@sabletrust.ns.ca |
| Debbie Kempton, Director of Communications |
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Contact: communications@sabletrust.ns.ca. |
| Glenn Bartlett |
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| Barbara Darby |
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| Alan Ruffman |
 Alan
Ruffman, P. Geo., is President and Director of Geomarine Associates
Limited, a Halifax-based geoscience consulting firm, and is an Honourary
Research Associate at Dalhousie University's Department of Earth Sciences
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a marine geologist and geophysicist, Mr.
Ruffman's interest in Sable Island was kindled on his first oceanographic
cruise when he helped land supplies on the island for a temporary
DECCA navigation station. Later, he spend considerable time doing
bottom geophysical surveys for wellsites and pipelines on Sable Island
Bank and in the Upper Gully and has studied extensively the storm-driven,
shore-attached ridges on the seafloor just offshore of Sable Island.
He has also studied its bars which constantly feed sand onto Sable
enabling the island and its dunes to grow higher over time which have,
so far, maintained Sable Island in the face of rising sea levels.
Mr. Ruffman was elected to the board of directors at the Annual General
Meeting in June of 2005 and is an active and passionate supporter
of the preservation and conservation of Sable Island and the surrounding
marine environment. |
| Andrew Boyne, ACAP Observer |
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Doug
Pincock was electedChair of Sable Island PreservationTrust's Board
of Directors at the Trust's AGM in June, 2005. Dr. Pincock comes
to the position with a wealth of experience both in the private
sector and as a volunteer. In 2004-05, Dr. Pincock, as Chair of
Sable Trust's Strategic Planning Committee, was instrumental in
the behind-the-scenes talks with key stakeholders dealing with securing
the future protection of Sable Island. That goal was attained in
January of 2005 with the government's announcement of their commitment
to a human presence on Sable Island.
April
Hennigar was captured by the spirit of Sable Island on her first
visit when she was eight years old. A respect for the strengths
and fragility of nature has influenced her life ever since.As Director
of Programs for the Trust, April brings to the board the planning,
organizing and communications skills she uses in her career as a
project manager in the information technology field.
Debbie's
initial interest in Sable Island was peaked while listening to her
grandfather, TH Raddall's stories of living on the island, and then
a trip to Sable Island ensured her a life long interest in the preservation
of the island. Debbie has spent her career in the Human Resources
and Disability related fields.
Glenn
Bartlett is an information technology consultant with the Atlantic
Branch of Sierra Systems Group. Originally from Corner Brook, NL,
he has always been interested in the outdoors and the protection
of our Atlantic Canadian heritage.Glenn will lend his organizational
and planning skills along with his broad technical expertise to
the Sable Island Preservation Trust’s efforts to ensure the
island is preserved for future generations.
Barbara
Darby is a lawyer practising with Gillis & Associates in Bedford,
Nova Scotia. Born and raised in Southern Alberta, Barbara has had
a long-standing love of nature and an interest in conservation and
environmental issues. She is intrigued by the challenge of persuading
people to protect a place that, because of its very fragility and
uniqueness, few people will ever be able to visit. Our enjoyment
of the island in part has to come from recognizing the importance
of having natural places that we can only access imaginatively or
vicariously.
Andrew
Boyne is a wildlife biologist in the species at risk unit of the
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada. He has been Environment
Canada's Atlantic Coastal Action Program window (observer) on the
board of directors since March 2005. Andrew has worked for the Canadian
Wildlife Service since 1997; first working out of the Atlantic head
office in Sackville, New Brunswick and since 2002 in Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia. He works on species at risk in Atlantic Canada, particularly
Roseate Terns, Piping Plover and Harlequin Ducks. He is Chair of
the Canadian Roseate Tern Recovery Team and the Atlantic Canada
Tern Working Group, as well as President of the Atlantic Society
of Fish and Wildlife Biologists. Andrew graduated from Mount Allison
University (BSc 1990) and did his graduate work at Macdonald Campus
of McGill University (MSc 1999). Andrew's main interests in Sable
Island are the birds that nest there, including Roseate Terns which
are listed as Endangered and Ipswich Sparrows which are listed as
Species of Special Concern under the federal Species at Risk Act.| The Trust |
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