The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation ????????????

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IOF SEMINAR – February 17, 2023


The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation
Image by David from Pixabay
Sociality – the suite of socially learned behaviors specific to a group of animals – is increasingly recognized as a survival strategy that is integral to the evolutionary ecology of many non-human animals. This is especially true in marine environments, where there are few barriers to dispersal, and top predators must find other ways to segregate and identify their niche space.

In this presentation, Dr. Van Cise will share four examples of recent research that incorporate the lens of sociality into our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of cetaceans as top marine predators. From evolutionary trajectories to population health to management implications, understanding the effects of sociality can provide important insight relevant to both the ecology and conservation of top marine predators.

Dr. Amy M. Van Cise
Assistant Professor
Whale and Dolphin Ecology Lab
University of Washington
Friday, February 17, 2023 – 11:00am  – 12 noon
Online: ZOOM)
IOF community members (students, faculty and staff) do not need to RSVP for this seminar series.

UBC members, alumni, and all others, please RSVP at:
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GradUpdate – 3MT Open Heat registration, LifeScience Consulting, CPhyGS Career Fair, Tax Webinars, Designing & Evaluating Search Queries in Scopus, and more.

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Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition

Join the Open Heats for all disciplines

Present your research, learn about the research of other grad students, win prizes | See the full competition details

Personal presentation feedback sessions | begin Friday, Feb 21 Register

Open Heats (for students in all disciplines)
Tuesday, Mar 7, 10 am – 12 pm or Thursday, Mar 9, 3 – 5 pm Register

GradUpdate

In this issue, LifeScience Consulting, CPhyGS Career Fair, Tax Webinars, Designing & Evaluating Search Queries in Scopus, and more.

Seats available

Cover Letters
Online | Tuesday, Feb 14 | 1 – 2 pm Register

Lost Your Motivation? Let’s Find it!
Staying on Track in Grad School series
Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 12 – 1:30 pm Register

Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research
Online | Thursday, Feb 16 | 12 – 1:15 pm (Panel), 1:30 – 2:30 (Workshop) Register

Events and Opportunities

A selection of upcoming events are highlighted below.  Visit  community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development for our full events calendar.

CAREER

Careers Fair, Biology-related
A Cell Biology and Physiology Graduate Society (CPhyGS) event | $5
In person | Tuesday, Feb 21 | 5 – 8 pm | space limited
Visit the website to learn more and register.

The Accidental Career
A HirePhD event | Start a career in a non-profit organization or transition from STEM field to business development
Online | Thursday, Feb 23 | 6 – 7 pm Register

Consulting Careers with Lifescience Dynamics
In person | Monday, Feb 27, | 12 – 1 pm Learn more

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Chops and Movie Night
Black Graduate Student Network (BGSN) Black History Month event
In person | Thursday, Feb 16 | 5 pm | GSS loft at the Nest RSVP

Canada Revenue Tax Webinars
Online | Tuesday, Feb 21 | 10 – 11 am or Wednesday, Feb 22 | 10 – 11:30 am Learn more

Fraud Awareness for International Students
Hosted by the RCMP, featuring speakers from the Canadian Border Services Agency and Bank of Canada
Online | Thursday, Feb 23 | 10 am – 12 pm Learn more

RESEARCH

Introduction to Git and GitHub
Online | Wednesday, Feb 22 | 10 am – 12 pm Register

Designing & Evaluating Search Queries in Scopus for Complex Reviews
In person | Thursday, Feb 23 | 12 – 2 pm Register

Version control of scientific datasets with DataLad
Online | Friday, Feb 24 | 1 – 2:30 pm Register

Workshops and events

Services

Resources

Salmon Futures: Science and Stewardship of Salmon Systems in an Era of Rapid Change

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IOF SEMINAR – February 10, 2023


Salmon Futures: Science and Stewardship of Salmon Systems in an Era of Rapid Change
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@greener_30?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Brandon</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/enPHTN3OPRw?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>
Photo by Brandon on Unsplash
In watersheds of western North America, migratory salmon support ecosystems, economies, and cultures. However, these fish and their fisheries are threatened by climate change and multiple stressors. How do we steward salmon systems in this era of rapid change?

Here Dr. Moore will share some stories of science and its application for salmon stewardship and climate resilience, from sea level rise to warming river temperatures to glacier retreat. While these are grave challenges and there is urgent need for climate change action, there are opportunities for forward-looking and collaborative science to help guide proactive conservation and management.

Dr. Jonathan Moore
Professor and Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, Simon Fraser University
Friday, February 10, 2023 – 11:00am  – 12 noon
Hybrid (in-person and over ZOOM)
IOF community members (students, faculty and staff) do not need to RSVP for this seminar series.

UBC members, alumni, and all others, please RSVP at:
https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/

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GradUpdate – Cover Letters, Find your Motivation, Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research, Publishing in the Public Humanities, Love Data Week, Networking, Annotated Bibliographies, and more.

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GradUpdate

In this issue, Cover Letters, Find your Motivation, Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research, Publishing in the Public Humanities, Love Data Week, Networking, Annotated Bibliographies, and more.

Registration now open

Cover Letters
Online | Tuesday, Feb 14 | 1 – 2 pm

Register

Lost Your Motivation? Let’s Find it!
Staying on Track in Grad School series
Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 12 – 1:30 pm

Register

Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research
Online | Thursday, Feb 16 | 12 – 1:15 pm (Panel), 1:30 – 2:30 (Workshop)

Register

Seats available

Copyright beyond the classroom: Considerations for including 3rd party materials in your academic work
Online | Wednesday, Feb 8 | 12 – 1 pm Register

Careers in Communication and Knowledge Mobilization (Panel)
Learn from panelists in film, indigenous storytelling, knowledge exchange, journal editing (Nature), and scientific writing.
Online | In collaboration with SFU | Wednesday, Feb 8 | 4 – 5:30 pm Register

Short, sharp and to the point: communicating your research with brevity and impact
Join Simon Clews from the University of Melbourne’s Engagement Lab for this lively keynote and learn strategies for giving a great talk
Online | Thursday, Feb 9 | 4 – 5 pm Register

Events and Opportunities

A selection of upcoming events are highlighted below.  Visit  community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development for our full events calendar.

ACADEMIC

Call for Papers: Resilience & the Law in Times of Crisis
24th Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference | May 4-5 Submissions due Feb 28

Literature Reviews: Searching and Keeping Track
Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 12 – 1 pm Register

CAREER

GSS Coaching Program
Learn coaching frameworks and effective conversational skills.
Online | 6 sessions | Wednesdays Feb 15 – Mar 22 | 5:30 – 7 pm Register

Networking Week
Arts Amplifier program, Open to grad students & postdocs in the Faculty of Arts
Online | Mandatory Workshop | Feb 16 | 5 – 6 pm
Online | Informational interviews | Feb 21 – 23 | by appointment
Apply by Monday, Feb 13.

Mitacs professional training courses
Online | Building your Project Network Map (Networking, Using LinkedIn) | Pr-requisite is “Advance your Reach” | Feb 15 | 9 – 11 am
Online | Project and time management | Feb 16 | 4 – 6 pm
Learn more

RESEARCH

Data Analysis: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Online | Tuesday, Feb 14 & Thursday, Feb 16 | 10 am – 12 pm | $110 Register

Love Data Week
Online | Co-sponsored by SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic | Open to everyone.

  • Steps, Tools, & Resources for Promoting Reproducibility
    Monday, Feb 13 | 2 – 3 pm Register
  • Accessing modern and historical census data
    Tuesday, Feb 14 | 10 – 11 am Register
  • Research Data Centre (RDC) Rundown
    Tuesday, Feb 14 | 12 – 1 pm Register
  • Introduction to REST APIs with OpenRefine
    Tuesday, Feb 14 | 1:30 – 3 pm Register
  • Exploring BC’s Community Information Tool
    Wednesday, Feb 15 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm Register
  • Community and Stakeholder Engagement for Ethical Data-Driven Research | Thursday, Feb 16 | 11 am – 12 pm Register
  • Tidy up your data: Using MS Excel & Power Query to transform and organize your data | Thursday, Feb 16 | 1 – 3 pm Register

TEACHING

Graduate Students in Teaching Conference 2023
Online | Tuesday, May 9 & Wednesday, May 10 | Proposals featuring teaching and learning: best practices, new resources, innovative approaches, discussion of critical issues, and presentation of SoTL/TAR research projects are welcomed. Submit your proposal by Mar 3

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

Publishing in the Public Humanities
Online | Thursday, Feb 9 | 10 am – 12:30 pm Register

14 Day Writing Challenge
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity program | free with UBC’s subscription
Online | Feb 20 – Mar 5 | commit to writing for 30 mins every weekday
Learn more and register by Feb 15.

Annotated Bibliographies: Synthesizing Multiple Studies
In person or Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 10 – 11:30 am Register

Workshops and events

Services

Resources

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) March 18, 19 & 25, 2023 application opens February 6!

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The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) will be offering a Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) on March 18, 19 & 25, 2023.

The Grad ISW is a 24-hour, fully participatory, and peer-based professional development workshop for graduate students that is beneficial to both new and experienced instructors.

Please note: You must attend all face-to-face sessions and complete all independent work for the complete duration of the workshop, (i.e. the entire 24-hour workshop).

To apply for the waitlist for March 18, 19 & 25, 2023.ISW click here:  https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/graduate-instructional-skills-workshop-march-18-19-25-2023-preliminary-application/

 

Application opens on February 6 at 9 am and closes on March 15, 2023 at 4:30 pm. By clicking this link, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and this DOES NOT register you for the workshop. Graduate ISWs at UBC are in high demand. To create an equitable registration process all graduate students who apply for an ISW will first be enrolled on a waitlist, from which participants are randomly selected. If a participant has applied for more than one ISW waitlist, their name will appear more frequently when generating the participant list, giving them a higher chance of being selected for an ISW. If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be contacted by our office to confirm your registration. For more information and a list of all upcoming sessions visit: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/gradisw

 

Workshop Eligibility:

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is eligible if they are:

  • a full-time or part-time registered graduate student at UBC during the academic term when the ISW is offered
  • a graduate student at UBC who has completed degree requirements but has not yet convocated
  • a joint degree graduate student who is enrolled at UBC and another institution
  • a graduate student at UBC pursuing non-degree studies
  • a visiting graduate student that is eligible to take courses

 

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is not eligible if they are:

  • not a graduate student at UBC
  • a graduate student at UBC who has on-leave status
  • a visiting graduate student that is not eligible to take courses

 

Elisa Herman
Event Coordinator
Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
The University of British Columbia

@UBC_CTLT

http://www.ctlt.ubc.ca