Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand (born 1971) is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences.
Her first collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes [1] (ISBN 978-0771006982), was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2015 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as the Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, and The Walrus. Her work also appeared in the anthology The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science. She co-edited the anthology Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Your Scrivener Press, 2009).[2]
Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in 1997 and conducts research on ecological change and sustainability science. Her topics of research include coupled human-environment systems and forest and forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems, and especially how sources of stress and disturbance, such as agriculture and climate change, impact these ecosystems across different spatial scales and time scales. She uses simulation modelling, statistical tools, dendrochronology, and other observational methods. She is a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph.
She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
References
- ↑ "A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes". Publisher's Weekly.
- ↑ "Madhur Anand". Literary Review of Canada.