Author Information

      From a very young age Rowan Cockett has been involved in the environment. A lot of his involvement has come through being a steward of Whispering Woods. He started being a steward in 1992, when he was just four and has continued his involvement to this day.

      Rowan has been designing webpages since he first entered the Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair when he was in grade 8. He has his own webpage called 'The Air Conditioned Project'. Working with this webpage has given him many of the skills he used to create 'Aliens Amongst Us'. Rowan has entered the Virtual Science Fair three times. Each time he has been awarded the highest level (Summa Cum Laude). My previous VSF project, that I did in grade 10, was also on Whispering Woods. At that point I only had one season's worth of GPS reference points.

Whispering Woods, The Webpage
Note: Not all of the pictures work on this website.

      Rowan has plans to continue this website and eventualy get it its own domain name. Some of his plans include:
  • Having this be a resource for The City of Calgary and Dr. Coffin Elementary School.
  • Having a page where children from Dr. Coffin or members from the community can leave their comments or concerns about Whispering Woods.
  • Continuing to get data points from Whispering Woods to increase the study time of this area. This will bring to attention the growing threat of the brome and thistle, or monitor the success there is in management practices.

      I hope that you have enjoyed my website, and have learned from it!

      If you have any comments or questions on Whispering Woods or invasive species in general don't hesitate to email me at...

rowan.cockett@shaw.ca