Dr Guppy has had a varied educational and professional career. First trained as a chemist and limnologist, she worked in Ontario with companies like Hough Stansbury and Associates. After managing academic programs and teaching at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie she returned to Columbia University to study architecture. After practicing as an architect in New Jersey and Quebec, she returned to Nova Scotia to take a position at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, before joining the School of Planning at TUNS (now Dalhousie) in 1993.

With teaching interests as varied as her background, Dr Guppy teaches courses in Urban Ecology, History and Theory of Landscape Architecture, Planning Studio, Introduction to Community Design, and Reading the Landscape. Her research focuses on urban ecology, the environment of the suburbs, and food in the city.

Selected publications and presentations:

Food and planning. Paper presented at the Canadian Institute of Planners conference, July 2003

Struggling with rural decline. Plan Canada 43(4): 46 (2003)

A grocery store in Musquodoboit Harbour. Rural-urban encounters: managing the environment of the peri-urban interface. International conference, London UK, September 2001

Guppy, S.F and CM Happey-Wood. Chemistry and sediments from two linked lakes in north Wales. Freshwater Biology 8: 401-13 (1978)

Revised 15 March 2006