Andy Fyon

ABOUT AUTHOR DR. ANDY FYON

Dr. Andy Fyon is a retired Director of the Ontario Geological Survey

(OGS), an Ontario government geoscience organization. In 1999,

Andy started to visit fly-in First Nations communities in northern

Ontario to understand the underlying causes of conflict with the OGS

geoscience program. Over the following fifteen years, Andy learned

about the importance of jointly creating an engagement process with

each First Nations band he worked with. In 2007, Andy and his

colleague Lori Churchill received an Ontario Government Amethyst

Award recognizing their efforts to improve relations with remote

First Nations people. The lessons learned and insights gained from

the First Nations people guided Andy as he modernized the OGS First

Nations engagement practices. They also changed Andy's life.

Other: I photograph landscape, plants, and geological features.