Join Elyn Humphreys, Peter White, and others for a visit to the Mer Bleue bog research site.  The Mer Bleue bog has been the subject of over 25 years of carbon cycle science and monitoring.  Learn about the natural history of this Ramsar Site, which designates Mer Bleue as a wetland of international importance, and learn about the ongoing science projects at this site including greenhouse gas exchange monitoring, remote sensing of peatlands, and drone-based GNSS survey field methods, among others. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes or hiking boots, and water bottles are recommended.

Cost: $30 per person (includes transportation in charted bus)

Limited to 24 participants

​Date: Tuesday, May 20  

Duration: 3 hours

Start: 1pm @ Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

End: 4pm @ Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

Join Tonya Davidson on this walking tour that draws from her book on the social lives of the statues of Ottawa, Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging.  Monuments visited will include those in the newly re-landscaped Kiweki Point, in Major’s Hill Park, and on Parliament Hill. Participants will also be able to enjoy the incredible vistas of the many “Crown jewels" that line the Ottawa River. Offering many local and national histories, the tour will focus on how monuments produce significant places in the present, both for the locals of Ottawa and for those coming to visit the city as a showcase for the nation. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes, and water bottles are recommended. You will also need to bring fare for the O-Train.

Cost: $10 (O-Train fare not included)

​Limited to 30 participants

Date: Wednesday, May 21 

Duration: 4 hrs (2-hour walk, plus travel time via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 8:30am @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 12:30pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

Join the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) to learn about their vision for transforming Ottawa into a caring city. Tunney's Pasture, a large site in the city centre developed exclusively for Federal government buildings but currently undergoing planning for multi-use redevelopment, provides an ideal location for this purpose. Inspired by a global caring city movement, the walk will allow you to participate in a Community Based Participatory Research Project to evaluate how spaces and places at this location can contribute to care. What does it mean to live in a city that provides for your needs and supports your well-being? How do we rethink urban geography from the perspective of both givers and receivers of care? CAWI's long-standing work advancing civic engagement for women, non-binary and gender non-conforming residents makes them the perfect hosts for this field trip. The walk will take place rain or shine. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes, and water bottles are recommended. You will also need to bring fare for the O-Train. Please email meg@cawi-ivtf.org if you require any accommodation to participate.

Cost: $15 or pay-what-you-can (O-Train fare not included)

Limited to 20 participants

​Date: Wednesday, May 21

Duration: 3hrs (2-hour field trip, plus travel time via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 9:00am @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 12:00pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)