Dan Cox is the Project Manager with Manitoba Association of Watersheds. He brings 14+ years of project management experience in the renewable energy sector to the MAW project team. Dan’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science from the University of Winnipeg and an advanced diploma in GIS from Red River College. His role within the organization is to oversee all projects which MAW administers on behalf of the Watershed Districts in Manitoba.

Dan joined us back in 2023 for episode #21 with Lynda Nicol where we first discussed the Manitoba Association of Watersheds or MAW and the programs and background on MAW.  Today we are chatting about the changes and evolution that has been happening over the past 2.5 years.

Dan shares information about MAW’s provincial projects and what each of these projects entails. One of the big changes from 2023, is the end of the Living Labs-Eastern Prairies project.  Dan shares some findings from this project that have come out thus far, as well as about the conclusion of this project.  Dan also discusses the new project, “Living Lab Manitoba,” which is under a new project called Agricultural Climate Solutions and has some more narrowly focused projects, while still carrying forward some of the projects that we previously included in “Living Lab- Eastern Prairies.”  

“Living Lab - Manitoba is a research-based program that collaborates with producers to develop grassroots solutions for reducing agricultural impacts on climate and environment.” (Manitoba Association of Watersheds, retrieved July 2025)  Dan shares some of the benefits from doing this research right on Manitoba farming operations.  We also chat about how carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon are included as areas of study in this project.

To find out more about Living Lab - Manitoba, please visit the links below.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Manitoba Association of Watersheds: Living Lab - Manitoba information page:

https://manitobawatersheds.org/llmb

Find MAW on:

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Instagram: @mb_watersheds

YouTube: @MB Watersheds

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