I had the great fortune of getting to spend my post-doc at UBC, working with Doug and Janet Werker. I remember lots of great interdisciplinary conversations that Doug organized and always had incisive contributions to. This was of course a hint at what was to come, with his work on Emergent Phonology with Diana Archangeli, which hypothesizes that phonology can be accounted for in terms of properties of general cognition (I likely don’t have to tell readers of this to read their 2022 book, but I suppose these words might not be totally wasted here).
My clearest and fondest memories of Doug are non-linguistic though. Snowboarding in jeans at Whistler, swimming during conference breaks at the conference Sharon Peperkamp organized in Marseille, and great conversations about life.