Jesse Sayles

Social-ecological dynamics of residential landscape change, human-environment interacts, landscape modification, Land-use and land-cover change, watershed management

Human ecology, resilience and adaptive management, landscape ecology, path-dependency, social-ecological systems

Refereed Journals and Books:
Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. (Accepted with revisions). Being adapted and securing a future: Cree hunters’ resistance and flexibility to environmental change, Wemindji, James Bay. Ecology and Society.

Sayles, J. and M. Mulrennan. (In press, 2010). Cree hunters' modifications of the coast: Agency in a changing land. In M. Mulrennan, C. Scott and K. Scott, (eds), Striking a Balance: The Science and Politics of Environmental Protection in James Bay. Vancouver. UBC Press.

Bussières, V., M. Mulrennan, and J. Sayles. (In press, 2010). Cultural connection to the Wemindji coastal and marine environment. In M. Mulrennan, C. Scott and K. Scott, (eds), Striking a Balance: The Science and Politics of Environmental Protection in James Bay. Vancouver. UBC Press.

Sayles, J.S. and D.I. Green. 2005. Bilateral action for right whales. Science (letters). 310 (5754): 1616-1617.

Thesis:
Sayles, J.S. 2008. Tapaiitum: Human Modifications of the Coast as Adaptations to Environmental Change, Wemindji, Eastern James Bay. Master's thesis, Concordia University.

Technical writing:
Sayles, J.S. and E. White. 2006. Appendix F: Discussion of Dams on the Wallkill River. In; Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan Steering Committee (eds); Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan. Ulister County Soil and Water Conservation District. New York.

Sayles, J.S. 2005. Knowledge flow: a Hudson River Estuary Watershed citizens’ tool for ecological discussions about stream barriers and barrier removal. In; David Burns, Lisa Vasilakos, Rick Oestrike (eds); Natural Resource Management Plan for the Fishkill Creek Watershed, June 2005. Dutchess County Environmental Management Council. New York. Pp 30-36.

GPH 111 - lab

2008 - Research assistant & GIS analyst, Indian Ocean World Center (IOWC), Dept. History, McGill University, Montreal, QC.

2005-2006 - River restoration analyst, Hudson River Estuary Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New Paltz, NY.

Campbell, G. and J.S. Sayles. 2008. Crisis of Faith and Conversion during the First LMS Mission to Madagascar, 1820-36. At the Workshop on Madagascar: Human’s, Health, and Environment in Madagascar. The Indian Ocean World Center, McGill University. 10-11 October 2008.

Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. 2008. Wemindji Cree Adaptations to Coastal Landscape change, Eastern James Bay. At The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. 15-19 April 2008.

Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. 2007. James Bay Cree Response to Coastal Landscape Change, Eastern James Bay. At The National Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN) Conference 2007. 24-27 October 2007.

Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. 2007. Where Islands Meet the Mainland; Understanding Dynamic Human and Biophysical Historic Coastal Changes in Wemindji, Eastern James Bay, QC. At the 8th International Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) Student Conference on Northern Studies. 19-21 Oct 2007.

Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. 2006. Adaptation to coastal change: recent shoreline displacement and associated human land-use and landscape modifications, Wemindji, Eastern James Bay, Quebec. At the New England – St. Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of the American Geographers Annual Meeting. 13-15 Oct 2006.

Sayles, J.S. 2005. A three tiered, nested approach to stream barrier inventory: characterizing barriers for restoration discussions in tributaries of the Hudson River Estuary. At the ASWM Integrated Restoration of Riverine Wetlands, Streams, Riparian Areas, and Floodplains in Watershed Contexts workshop. 15-16 Nov 2005. Available on line at: http://www.aswm.org/calendar/integratingrest/sayles1.pdf