Hi all!

Are you a student or post-doc looking to share your research and win cash prizes?? If so, here’s your chance!

The Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science is hosting their 2023 Annual General Meeting. During this meeting there will be a Rapid Fire Thesis Competition.

Link to registration HERE.

We are happy to announce our Rapid Fire Thesis Competition in lieu of a student poster presentation during our 2023 AGM + Spring workshop. Students are encouraged to share their research related to soil science in a 3-min rapid presentation format. Presentations should follow the University of Queensland guidelines and be submitted prior to the AGM event. During the event presenters will participate in a Q&A period. The top three places of the competition will receive cash prizes and be announced in our social media pages.

• Interested participants must register to the AGM and select “YES” to the Rapid Fire Thesis question. You will be contacted with further information about the competition. If you are not contacted within a week, email kerseyj@mail.ubc.ca.
• Deadline to submit 3-min bite-sized blurbs recording: March 2nd, 2023
• Recording format: MP4 is preferable, but we can accommodate whatever format is available to you

Hope to see you all there!

Jordy

Jordy Kersey, MSc (she/her)

PhD Candidate | Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes Lab

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

The University of British Columbia | Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory

President – Pacific Regional Society of Soil Scientists

This Friday, March 3^rd Harvey Bradford, Director at Serecon will be speaking to the MFRE students about the Ins and outs of pursuing a career in Agri-Food Management Consultant and Advisory Services. Please join us and learn from an experience professional who will share his insights and advice on to succeed in  this dynamic industry.

A Career in Agri-Food and Management Consulting and Advisory services

Date: Friday, March 3^rd ,^, 2023

Time: 3:00-4:30 pm

Location: MCML 160

Harvey is a Director at Serecon Inc., a firm based in Western Canada providing objective value-added services to the agriculture and food sectors through asset and business valuation, management consulting and advisory services. Harvey is also the President of Field to Market Canada and is heavily involved in the strategic direction and implementation of the organization’s vision and mission. Prior to his current roles, he was a Grain and Oilseed Analyst for the USDA, stationed at the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. Harvey also has experience at various levels of agricultural policy developed from a Junior Policy Officer (JPO) position at Canada’s diplomatic mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva and more recently as a consultant working on trade policy related research for the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Harvey holds a Master of Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim in southern Germany and has extensive hands-on experience in the agri-food sector from having grown up on a cattle ranch in the East Kootenay region of southern British Columbia. Harvey currently lives in Kimberley, BC, with his wife and daughter

For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit here

Regards,

Olivier

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Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE

Academic Program Manager | Master of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food Systems| The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada | Cell 604-771-8961 | olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca | http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

Tansi (Hello),

We are really excited to invite programs, faculty, staff and students to participate in the upcoming Indigenous Graduate Initiatives Showcase, a pre-symposium event to the 20th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium on March 17, 2023.

With growing resources on campus for Indigenous graduate students, it will be an opportunity for programs, faculty, staff and students to showcase any Indigenous graduate initiatives that you are working on, from Indigenous focused programs, courses, support staff, mentorship programs, student groups, and more.

The showcase will be held March 17, 2023 at the First Nations House of Learning Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall (UBC Vancouver) from 9am to 12pm with set up happening between 8:30am and 9am.

If you would like to register and set up an interactive information table, or have questions on how you can participate, please email Tarene Thomas (tarene.thomas@ubc.ca) by March 10, 2023 at 4pm

Please do feel free to join us at the event to network, build community and learn about other initiatives happening across campus. The event is free to attend and is open to faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students to attend.

Come celebrate Indigenous excellence with us!

Tarene Thomas (Cree, Gitxsan, Tahltan, Haisla), BA, MFA |
Coordinator, Indigenous Graduate Initiatives, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

tarene.thomas@ubc.ca | 604-822-6788 | https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/indigenous-students

Rebecca Jules (Secwepemc)  MPP, BA (She, Her, Hers)
Specialist, Indigenous Graduate Initiatives, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
170-6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Email: rebecca.jules@ubc.ca | 604-827-0829 | https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/indigenous-students