The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will match funds provided by graduate programs (to a maximum of $8,000 per student and to a maximum of $50,000 for the program in total) to support Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students registered at the UBC-Vancouver campus for the 2017/18 academic year (i.e., from 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018). This funding is intended to support students until they can apply for the next regular Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship competition. It is also intended to support students who were not successful in receiving other funding, such as Tri-Agency Master’s or doctoral awards, Affiliated Fellowships, etc., for the 2017/18 academic year. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through a competition administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

Applicants: LFS Internal Deadline is Friday, July 7, 2017 at 4:00 pm.  Late applications cannot be accepted

Graduate Programs: nominations due to G+PS by Friday, 14 July 2017

Annual Value: up to $8,000 from Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, must be matched by graduate program

Further information available on the G+PS website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/aboriginal-graduate-fellowship-bridge-funding

Environmental productivity of the Salish Sea: Two PhD student opportunities in ecological modelling at Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia

The two PhD student opportunities (PhDs) are to work on a research project at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (http://oceans.ubc.ca) conducted in cooperation with the Pacific Salmon Foundation (https://www.psf.ca). The study, Environmental Productivity Patterns of the Salish Sea, seeks to determine the primary factors affecting the survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Salish Sea, and is conducted as part of the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project (SSMSP, http://marinesurvivalproject.com). This project seeks to understand how the environmental productivity of the Sea has changed over the half century along with the consequential impacts throughout the ecosystem.

One of the PhDs will be responsible for the development of a spatial ecosystem model of the Salish Sea based on the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) approach and software, building on previous work in the area along with the extensive databases that have been built as part of the SSMSP (http://sogdatacentre.ca).

The other PhD will further develop an individual based model (IBM) of juvenile salmon survival and distribution patterns in the Salish Sea, which will obtain hydrographic and biogeochemical information from a GETM/FABM (http://www.getm.eu, https://sourceforge.net/projects/fabm/) model of the Salish Sea that will be built as part of the project as well as food web information from the EwE model that is being developed through the same overall activity.

More information, including how to apply: http://oceans.ubc.ca/two-2-phd-student-opportunities/

Regards,

Katherine Came
Communications Manager
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Faculty of Science, The University of British Columbia Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory Rm. 239, 2202 Main Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
(604) 827-4325

k.came@oceans.ubc.ca<mailto:k.came@oceans.ubc.ca>

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The Graduate Global Leadership Fellowships enable promising leaders from developing countries to pursue doctoral studies at UBC. The fellowships are to support international students showing outstanding leadership in humanitarian and development work in their home country. Two fellowships will be offered; each fellowship provides an $18,200 stipend plus tuition each year for four years.

Applicants must:

• Hold a student visa at the beginning of the fellowship funding period
• Be a citizen of a developing country (see list of countries on website, link below) at the time of application for admission
• Be starting a PhD or DMA program at the UBC Vancouver campus in January 2017, May 2017, or September 2017
• Be starting their first doctoral degree

The deadline to submit your completed application to the LFS Graduate Office (room 344 MacMillan Building) is:   MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27^th.  We will not consider late or incomplete applications.

Please see the Graduate Awards website for more information: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/graduate-global-leadership-fellowship