Eminent scholar and environmental historian John R. Gillis, a longstanding friend of Island Studies at UPEI, will be delivering a lecture entitled Islands as Wetlands on Friday, August 1 at 7:00 pm in Don and Marion McDougall Hall, Room 243. Doctor Gillis is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and spent time at UPEI while preparing his most recent book, The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History (University of Chicago Press), a provocative exploration of the rich history of humans' relationship with the the seacoast, the vital ecotone where land and sea meet. The lecture is sponsored by the NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and Environment.