United Nations Day - Sunday October 24th

The Joggins Fossil Institute is pleased that Tim Badman and Dr. Larry Ostola will be joining us on Sunday to celebrate United Nations Day. Tim and Larry will be giving us short presentations on global and national heritage. Tim joins us from Gland, Switzerland and Larry joins us from Quebec.

Here is a brief introduction to our excellent guests.

Dr. Larry Ostola

Dr. Larry Ostola is the Director General of National Historic Sites with the Parks Canada Agency. In addition to his national responsibilities related to National Historic Sites, Dr. Ostola also provides national leadership and functional expertise in Canada related to built heritage and historic places generally.

Prior to assuming his present position, Dr. Ostola was first, Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer of Parks Canada, and then Director of Parks Canada’s Ontario Service Centre responsible for providing professional and technical services in disciplines such as terrestrial and underwater archaeology, historical research, planning and conservation.

Larry presently serves as the Head of the Canadian Delegation to the World Heritage Committee and was responsible for the organization of the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee in Quebec City in 2008.

He holds a B.A. in History from McGill University, an M.A. in history from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. also in history, from Université Laval.

Mr. Tim Badman

Tim Badman is Head of the World Heritage Programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He joined IUCN in August 2007, and was previously based in Dorset County Council (UK) as Environment Policy Manager.

Between 2000-2006 Tim was the team leader of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, a role which included the supervision of the nomination process which culminated in inscription on the World Heritage List in 2001, and the subsequent development of the World Heritage programme for this site.

Tim has been a member of IUCN’s World Commission for Protected Areas since 2002 and has served on IUCN’s World Heritage Panel since 2003, carrying out a range of World Heritage evaluation missions and working as part of the IUCN delegation to the annual UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

Tim is the focal point for IUCN’s work on earth science within the World Heritage Convention and an adviser to UNESCO`s Global Geoparks Network. Tim trained as a geologist and countryside manager in Southampton and Manchester (UK). Aside from World Heritage, his career has mainly focussed on coastal zone management and on policy and management of protected landscapes/seascapes (IUCN Category V protected areas).



ON SUNDAY - the centre is open to the public for free. Come to Joggins and join us in Celebrating the United Nations. Presentations will be from 1 - 3 pm.