The students explored current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability and wrote blogs to contribute to current debate.
They touched on a wide array of topics – from jellyfish blooms to the world’s largest MPA.
The BIOL 420 2017 students developed an overview of Canada’s attitudes and activities with respect to marine conservation (or not). Each student distilled their key findings/thinking into a Haiku which they presented to the rest of the class, and then they tweeted about them. See our creative students’ Canadian Ocean Issues Haikus here, and their tweets here.
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[Haikus are a form of poetry of Japanese origin that uses a format of three lines with 5,7,5 syllables.]
BIOL420 is an interdisciplinary conservation course that takes a solutions-oriented approach to marine issues, drawing from natural sciences, social sciences, business, law, and communication.
If you are a UBC student you can enrol in BIOL 420 here.
(Prerequisite: Fourth year standing).
More information on the course here.
A critical evaluation of an intervention in marine conservation and management. The hope was to find success stories in conservation (truly making a difference in their outcomes and impacts rather than just sounding good) but negative results are also valuable.
The blogs by the 2015 students are here
The students explored current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability and wrote blogs to contribute to current debate.
They touched on a wide array of topics – ranging from bycatch to the Deep Water Horizon Spill.
BIOL420 is an interdisciplinary conservation course that takes a solutions-oriented approach to marine issues, drawing from natural sciences, social sciences, business, law, and communication.
This will be our third year offering the course – it was very well received the last two years. If you are a UBC student you can enrol in BIOL 420 here.
(Prerequisite: Fourth year standing).
More information on the course here.
Critical evaluation of an intervention in marine conservation and management. The hope was to find success stories in conservation (truly making a difference in their outcomes and impacts rather than just sounding good) but negative results are also valuable.
The blogs by the 2014 students are here
The students explored current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability and wrote blogs to contribute to current debate.
They touched on a wide array of topics – ranging from supertanks in Kitimat to sharks eating lionfish!
The 2014 students developed an overview of Canada’s attitudes and activities with respect to marine conservation (or not). Each student distilled their key findings/thinking into a Haiku. Haikus are a form of poetry of Japanese origin that uses a format of three lines with 5,7,5 syllables.
See the BIOL 420 2014 Haikus.
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