A Program within the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC
Deadline to Apply: November 22, 2021 or Until Role is Filled
Environmental Youth Alliance is looking for an Indigenous Youth Program Coordinator to lead land-based programs for Indigenous youth in East Vancouver, including designing lesson plans and sharing cultural and/or personal knowledge of harvesting and working with plant medicines and relationship to the land.
See the full job posting here.
Effective November 9, 2021, you can reach LFS Student Services at lfs.advising@ubc.ca, so please use this email address to contact them or to encourage students to contact our office moving forward. Any emails sent to students@landfood.ubc.ca will be forwarded to the new address. All website mentions of students@landfood.ubc.ca will be updated this week.
Dear colleagues,
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers each year a paid internship for undergraduates from North America, UK or Ireland to come to work in Germany for about 3 months. This year, we again submitted an offer and are eager to host a student to assist us with our new goat cognition studies (brief outline attached) in summer 2022.
More information on eligibility can be found here: https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship/what-applicants-need-to-know/
Application portal: https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship/application-portal/
It would be amazing if you could circulate this advert with your classes and/or forward it to students that might be particularly interested in this opportunity. Thanks so much!
Cheers,
Christian
Christian Nawroth, PhD
PostDoc
Institute of Behavioural Physiology
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Germany
Tel: +49 38208 68-805
Email: nawroth@fbn-dummerstorf.de
Twitter: @GoatsThatStare
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Global Soil Degradation: Status, Drivers, and Solutions
John Reganold, Soil Science and Agroecology at Washington State University / Visiting Research Scholar supported by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Friday, October 22, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
In-person & via Zoom (see details below on how to join)
Abstract: At least 33% of global cropland soils are moderately or highly degraded, with the most significant causes being soil erosion, loss of organic matter, nutrient imbalance, and urbanization. Drivers of global soil degradation are diverse and include, but are not limited to, population dynamics, consumption, inequality, education, and farming practices. The existence of innovative agricultural practices and systems that mitigate or prevent soil degradation suggests that technical obstacles are not the greatest barrier. Barriers to farmers adopting these sustainable practices include powerful vested interests and existing policies, a lack of information and knowledge, weak infrastructure and other economic challenges, and misperceptions and cultural biases. To halt or reverse soil degradation will require mobilizing the full arsenal of effective policies, scientific and socioeconomic advances, farmer ingenuity, and public engagement.
How to Join
In-person MCML 102 Please note that participation will be limited due to the capacity of the room. Email sandra.brown@ubc.ca to save your spot.
Livestreaming via zoom is available for this presentation; pre-registration required.
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MvduurrT4oHNF6SJLdx8V34tYVfePOWLyj
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Recording will also be done for this presentation and made available to PRSSS members through their website. Please see https://www.prsss.ca/ for more information. Please note that access to these videos will be password protected.
Location: Online (Zoom)
Registration Cost: Free
We invite you to attend a panel discussion among five leaders in animal cognition and welfare. The conversation will cover a range of theoretical, methodological, and practical questions. For instance, how can we compare the features of valenced experiences, such as pleasure and pain, across species? And do potential differences between species affect practice? For example, should invasive research on pigs face a higher justificatory bar than invasive research on shrimp? We look forward to a lively conversation about these difficult and important problems.
To register, please visit this page and complete a brief form. If you have any questions, contact us.
https://rethinkpriorities.org/cognition-welfare-and-the-problem-of-interspecies-comparisons