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So, if you have been following along with this blog for sometime, you might remember that a year ago I visited St. Catherines (here, and here) to present research at the Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, and a year before that I presented at the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (here) in Bolton Landing, NY.

At each of these conferences I presented half of my 4th year research of Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland. I looked at the creation of the National Park and if and how it affected the lives of the local community members. I loved the research, and writing the paper, and after each presentation was told that my research was Master's (post-graduate) quality.

The full paper was submitted for review to Leisure/Loisir, which is a Canadian Academic Journal. We received some feedback and a few requests for some changes and currently my research supervisor is working to make some changes.

But the exciting part? A shorter paper was required for the NERR conference I presented at in 2010 and it has finally been published. If you are at all interested in the research, or to see what I am talking about click here and then click "view or print this publication". Like I said, this is a mini version of the paper, only 7 pages. So this is the quick and dirty way to get the gist of what I researched and presented :) The other conference also required a paper, but it was mainly just an abstract, so even shorter, you can find that publication here, and my abstract is on page 161.

So I'm pretty excited, this is a big step. I'd love to work as a professor one day, and having something published as an undergrad is a great step in the right direction. Now publishing can be a very long and tedious process, so I don't expect to hear about the full paper for some time, but when I do I will be sure to share!

I hope you're having a great Friday, it's the beginning of my weekend and it started early as I couldn't get back to sleep after about 4am. Practice for Pip I suppose :)

Oh, and remember to enter the JoyInspiration Giveaway. You only have a couple days left!

xox

Presenting Research

At the end of April, I mentioned that I would be presenting research that I did on Gros Morne National Park (here). Last year in April I attended the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium at the Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, NY. At this conference I presented half of my research on Gros Morne National Park (GMNP), also see the Parks Canada site. More specifically the research looked at how the creation of GMNP affected the lives of the local community members. It was a really interesting research topic, I was able to speak to a number of community members and hear stories about growing up in a beautiful, but sometimes trying place.

Some photos of my trip last spring:

 

 

 

 

It was such a beautiful place! Today I am leaving for a second conference, in order to present the second half of my research. This year, I am staying a little closer to home. My mom is travelling with me to St. Chatharine's, Ontario. We will be staying with my Great-Aunt in Ancaster for a couple nights, and a hotel one night. I can't wait! And to start out, my mom and I have signed up for a wine tour this afternoon, hosted by the conference. I will definitely take some photos and share them upon my return. I will be gone until Saturday the 21st, and then I will head up to the cottage to spend some time with Reggie, Gunner and the in-laws! Don't worry I have scheduled posts for your reading pleasure!

See you soon!

May is on its way!

Today is April 30th, and although I am sad to see it go, I am soo excited about the up coming month! May is the 1st time I am going to have sponsors, and I have a great group of gals who are already working on some guest posts and thinking up things to give away. That's right, Newfoundlander at Heart's first ever give away will be in May (there might even be more than 1), and I will finally open my Etsy Shop... yay!

May is also a birthday month, both my mom and my dad celebrate their birthdays - only 13 days apart!

Also, in May I head down to the Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, in Brock, to present research I did on my second home: Gros Morne N.P., Newfoundland and Labrador. I will give you a little more information on that later.

And, finally, May is when I go back to my job at the provincial park near-by. I run all the outdoor education programs and activities and I love it!

What are you looking forward to in May?