Samuel Ganton is a graduate student in the M.Arch program at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. His research focuses on the experiential intersection between architecture and weather, and centres on the design of a thunderstorm observatory on Lake Maracaibo, the site of the Catatumbo Lightning. Samuel is co-founder of the Treaty Lands, Global Stories initiative, and also co-leads On Empathy, a student-run lecture series and forum for conversation. In May 2016, he presented the paper "Myth, Map, and Mackintosh: A Taxonomy of Weather Devices," drawn from ongoing thesis research, at the RAI conference on "Anthropology, Weather, and Climate Change" in London, UK.