Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation

Lynn serves as President and Board Director of Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation and is the Founding Director of Whistler’s Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and a Master’s in Natural Resource and Environmental Management. Throughout her 35-year working career and, more recently, in retirement, Lynn has served in a variety of roles in water protection and sustainability. Her passion for stewardship and citizen science is driven by her belief that the work of Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation is, in some small way, protecting Whistlers’ lakes for generations to
come. Lynn leads an energetic, healthy lifestyle – enjoying road trips and spending time with family and friends at their 1943 cabin on Alta Lake.

Nick Collins spent 44 years as a professor of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Early on in his career he studied ecosystems in extreme environments like Yellowstone hot springs and the Great Salt Lake, because they involved only a few tolerant species that made detailed study of the whole system feasible.  Then he discovered that ecological questions he’d been asking about how extreme ecosystems worked were also key questions for understanding the more typical ecosystems of freshwater lakes.

A grad student inspired him to use the “new” and relatively clunky video surveillance technology of the 90s to study how fish and bottom organisms actually behaved outside the lab in lakes. He studied fish traffic and feeding patterns to understand why fish small lakes seemed unable to take advantage of an abundant food supply.  He particularly enjoyed teaching a course in freshwater biology because it encouraged students to integrate phenomena from physics, geology, geography, chemistry, biology, and sociology. It also involved field trips that brought largely urban students out to an Ontario countryside in glorious fall colours, put them into small boats on lakes in both day and night, and helped them discover fascinating things about lake environments and the organisms living there. 

Since becoming involved with the WLCF lake monitoring program in 2021 he’s been delighted to help summarize and interpret what our data are telling us about how Whistler Lakes are being affected by local human impacts and climate change.

The WLCF’s treasurer is John Doyle, a retired financial advisor with a major Canadian bank and a full time Whistler resident. When not on the pickleball court or his motorcycle he can be found golfing, cycling and working part time as a ski instructor/coach in the winter.

John is on his strata council and has been team leader or team member on several pro bono dental missions around the world. He grew up sailing back east and recognizes the importance and need to protect Whistler’s wonderful lakes. 

Andrew is an enthusiastic leader and entrepreneur with a love for the outdoors and a deep commitment to sustainability. As COO of 7Gen, he’s at the forefront of promoting the adoption of Commercial Electric Vehicles (EVs), driving efforts to reduce carbon emissions in transportation.

His outdoors pursuits include hiking, skiing, mountain biking, backcountry camping & sailing. His biggest trips to-date have been a transpacific ocean crossing of 7,000km where he spent 27 days at sea and a 34,000km drive across Canada.

Andrew’s passion for the environment shines through his role as Director of the Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation, where he actively works to protect Whistler’s lakes and natural ecosystems.

He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce from the Sauder School of Business. Andrew has completed the Innovation Governance Program from the Canadian Council of Innovators and the Not-For-Profit Governance Designation through ICD.

David Hayes is a Principal Enterprise Architect at Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group in Vancouver, bringing deep expertise in data strategy and organizational design to the Foundation’s work.

David splits his time between Vancouver and Whistler, where he has a home at Tamarisk on Alpha Lake. That proximity to the water isn’t incidental — it’s what drew him to the Foundation. He understands firsthand what’s at stake in protecting Whistler’s lakes, and shares the belief that drives every WLCF board member: that these ecosystems deserve serious, sustained attention.

Tim is a part-time resident of Whistler who resides on the shores of Alpha Lake. He’s presently a volunteer member of Whistler’s Lake Monitoring Program. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and a Master’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Management from the University of Victoria. Upon graduation, he worked at the Institute of Ocean Sciences on the environmental team assessing potential oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea, as a Land Use Planner with BC Ministry of Agriculture and as a Parks Planner with the BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing. After these employment experiences, he established and continues to operate, though semi-retired, an environmental services consulting firm for over 30 years providing a range of varied environmental services including agricultural land use planning, fish habitat restoration and enhancement, environmental impact assessment, contaminated site remediation, and environmental management planning. Throughout his consultancy, his main client has been and continues to be BC First Nations. To that end, while operating his environmental consulting firm, he also worked full-time for 16 years with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) as the Senior Environmental Specialist in BC for Treaty and Self-Government. He’s eager to work with Whistler residents, Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation to contribute in whatever ways needed to achieve the sustainable management and protection of Whistler’s and the First Nations’ abundant and unparalleled environmental resources.