***Course Announcement – Winter Term 2***
We are very pleased to announce that RES 500C is open to graduate students in all departments, please feel free to sign up if you are interested:
RES 500C: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology
Tu&Th 1:30 – 3:00 (to be adjusted as needed based on time zones)
http://ires.ubc.ca/courses/course-information/
Course Description
This course is a graduate level seminar with lecture and discussion covering advanced topics in conservation of biological diversity. We will read a mixture of foundational as well as recent papers covering a range of current topics within Conservation Biology. One of the most exciting aspects of the course is that students will have the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams on an active conservation project, commissioned by international and local NGOs. Students will prepare deliverables that will help these organizations in their current on-the-ground work, under the guidance of the instructor and the project lead(s) from respective NGOs. A partial list of this year’s projects is provided below. Group projects represent an exciting and unique opportunity to learn while contributing to conservation, and can lead to future projects or co-authored publications, resumé-building, and networking. Students will also gain experience leading discussions and developing interactive class exercises.
All graduate students with some background in ecology and a strong interest in conservation are welcome. Students with any prior experience in GIS, remote-sensing, OR other quantitative skills, OR social sciences/qualitative coding, botany, wildlife ecology, Indigenous knowledge systems, project management, literature review are also particularly encouraged to enroll. All departments are welcome.
2021 projects (partial list):
Nature Conservancy Canada
- Bringing Indigenous ways of knowing into NCC’s conservation and land management planning
- Evaluating use of scientific evidence in NCC’s conservation planning (building from a project this class conducted last year)
- Use of NCC protected area network as avian migratory stop-over sites
Canadian Wildlife Service
- Detecting spatio-temporal change in land condition in critical habitat for species at risk in British Columbia
UBC Botanical Garden/CGIAR/USDA
- Developing a 10-yr action plan for botanical gardens for conserving crop wild relatives
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