Left to Right: conference organizer Peter Wills, Raymond Moriyama, Amy Sodaro, and Jennifer Jenkins. Raymond Moriyama, founder of Raymond Moriyama Architect & Planner in 1958, and later Moriyama & Teshima in 1970, is a hero to many Canadians. His stories of being interned during the Second World War because of his Japanese heritage and his rise to become one of Canada’s most respected, talented, and humanistic architects continue to inspire. Raymond has applied his extraordinary vision, humanity and understanding to numerous projects, including the Ontario Science Centre, Science North, Scarborough Civic Centre, Toronto Reference Library, Bata Shoe Museum, National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the new national Canadian War Museum in Ottawa that recently received the Governor General’s Medal for Architecture. Such landmark projects consistently earn praise for their intimate relationship to land, nature, people and community. Moriyama has received numerous honours, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal, International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects, and honorary degrees from ten universities. He received the Order of Ontario, the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), and recently was promoted a Companion of the Order of Canada, in recognition of “inspiring a new generation of young architects through a significant body of work deemed to be a major contribution to Canadian architecture, and having lasting influence on the theory and/or the practice of architecture, either – through demonstrated excellence in design; and/or, excellence in research or education.” One of the Moriyama’s greatest architectural achievements, and one which has the greatest impact on Canadian society, is the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The Canadian War Museum and its architecture have had an impact well beyond Ottawa, having inspired a curriculum and resource package for secondary school teachers on architecture and history respecting our war veterans and Canada’s past. Moriyama provides a personal account of the designing and building of the War Museum in his moving book, In Search of a Soul (D&M, 2006). A DVD by the same title was produced by Sound Venture Productions, stating: “Raymond Moriyama has created an indelible symbolic experience that can be felt in every corner of this building of war and hope.” Born in Vancouver and educated in Vancouver, Tokyo, Slocan Valley (Bayfarm internment camp) BC, Ryerson Senior Public School and Westdale Collegiate in Hamilton, he received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Toronto in 1954 and Master of Architecture in Urban Design from McGill University in 1957. He received the Most Outstanding Asian Canadian Award in 2005 and was the first Japanese Canadian to be honoured with the Sakura Award for his artistic and humanitarian contributions to Canada in 2010. In the spring of 2001, he was elected unanimously the Chancellor of Brock University, the first architect in Canada to receive such honour. His lasting legacy may be tied to his long-term vision, thinking and accomplishments as well as his architectural achievements, namely, the Saudi Arabian National Museum in Riyadh, the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The creation of ‘The Living Wadi’, largely through bio-remediation of the long-ignored and devastated 124 km Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aroused great interest at the UN and was short-listed for the Aga Khan Award. His 1978 Meewasin Valley Study, a 100 Year Conceptual Plan for the 82 km South Saskatchewan River that runs through Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and the Region, a study of ‘Nature and Development’, was the basis for the legislative establishment of the Meewasin Valley Authority (MVA) in 1979, now over 30 years in existence. In his keynote at the 2010 Architectural Festival and Conference, 80-year-old Moriyama commented on the Study and the Authority, “I have to live a little longer. MVA still has over 62 years to go.” Moriyama and his wife, Sachi, have 5 grown children – 3 boys and 2 girls. Two are now architects and principle partners in the firm. They are blessed with 10 grandchildren, so far. Amy Sodaro is a PhD candidate in sociology at The New School for Social Research (NSSR). Her dissertation, “Exhibiting Atrocity: Facing the Past in the New Memorial Museums,” examines how societies use museums as mechanisms for coming to terms with past genocide and violence and preventing future human rights abuses. She has published articles on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, and is co-editor of Memory and the Future, Transnational Politics, Culture and Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Jennifer Jenkins is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair for Modern German History. She wor

This is from a series of shots taken during Waleed's presentation to journalists attending the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism seminar on "Climate Change, Its Sweeping Impact" NASA Presenters David Adamec and Waleed Abdalati presented during this portion of the seminar. Waleed is shown in these pictures. WALEED ABDALATI is a physical scientist at NASA’s Goddard Flight Space Center and manages the cryospheric sciences program, overseeing research on glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice and polar climate. He has held the position since 2000 and has led or participated in eight field expeditions to remote regions in Greenland and Canada. For the last four years Dr. Abdalati has served as program scientist for NASA's Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite. In 1999 he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Syracuse University, a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado and doctorate degree in ocean and atmospheric sciences from the University of Colorado.