Michael Biros is an Adjunct Professor in Landscape Architecture. In addition to serving as a sessional instructor, he is starting a PhD program in Design, Technology, and Society. He is interested in researching the role of social drivers behind the framing of climate adaptation issues and efforts including the role of fear, nostalgia (or solastalgia), and hope in how infrastructural and ecological planning, policy, and management practices are designed and implemented. He believes these drivers may play a role in how social-ecological systems reorganize to holistic and adaptive patterns or reinforce power imbalances and extractive relationships.