Thank you for sharing the ESAC 2025 Annual Conference at Congress Call for Papers below with your faculty and students! A french and english pdf version of the call is attached to this email.

The Environmental Studies Association of Canada is pleased to invite you to participate in our 2025 Annual Conference from June 1st to 3rd, as part of the 2025 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted at George Brown College, Toronto.

The 2025 Annual Conference will be packed with exciting in-person and digital events and opportunities, including:

Special undergraduate research showcase ;

Keynote events and special sessions with leaders in the field of sustainability (Najia Shaukat Lupson and Ashoke Mohanraj) ;

Joint session on “Biodiversity and Society” with the Environmental Sociology Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association

The announcement of the 2025 ECO-Award winners;

Hybrid academia-practitioner networking event;

Research sharing and networking opportunities in French, English, and Spanish.

Submission Instructions:

Reflecting the 2025 Congress theme “Reframing Togetherness”, ESAC invites submissions from a diverse range of issues and topics. The organizing committee is accepting proposals for individual paper presentations. All proposals must be submitted through the Abstract Submission on the ESAC website by January 15, 2025. Please note that you must be an active member of ESAC and pay ESAC conference and Congress fees to present.

Anna Soer

ESAC Vice-President

Conference Director

Environmental Studies Association of Canada

Association canadienne d’études environnementales

https://esac.ca/

Volunteer at the 2025 Pacific Agriculture Show! – sign up by Dec. 13!

The Pacific Agriculture Show is taking place on January 23 to 25, 2025 at the Tradex Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford.

The Faculty and the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm will have a 10×10 booth for the three days and we are opening the booth to showcase faculty research to the producers who attend. If faculty members, lab staff or graduate students would like to volunteer for a 3-4 hour shift to showcase their research to agriculture show attendees, they are welcome to join the booth!

We’ve set up a sign-up sheet – please sign up for the booth by December 13, 2024: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4SmB87aXhkkE3tA

If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Wong (shannon.wong@ubc.ca) or Karen Lee (Karen.lee98@ubc.ca).

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Shannon Wong  (She, Her, Hers)
Communications Specialist
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
H.R. MacMillan, 278 – 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 861 9303
shannon.wong@ubc.ca | @ubcLFS
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

New Final Grade Submission Tool: Training and Live Support Available!

Are you working as a Teaching Assistant (TA) this term? With the transition to Workday’s Final Grade Submission Tool (FGST), we want to ensure you’re supported as you prepare to input grades.

To help you navigate this change, Enrolment Services is offering:

• Q&A Sessions on Zoom: Drop in to review the grade entry process, ask questions, and troubleshoot.
• Live Troubleshooting Support: Available via email between December 9-23.

Whether you’re uploading grades or making manual entries, these resources are here to make the process smoother.

???? Full details and session schedules are available on the Resources and Support for UBC faculty and instructors webpage.

Don’t miss these opportunities to get your questions answered and ensure grade submissions are stress-free.

IOF SEMINAR – December 6, 2024

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Graduate Student Presentations

 

Ruth Arnold (MSc OCF)

Baseline population assessments for three key seahorse species in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

 

Denis Coskuner (MSc OCF)

Temporal and spatial dynamics of nearshore zooplankton communities in the Strait of Georgia

 

Rhys Jenson (MSc OCF)

Plastics in the poop. Are humpback whales eating trash?

 

Julia Mayer (PhD OCF)

Seaforestation in British Columbia under climate change

 

Antoine Mesple (MSc OCF)

Projecting exposure of marine heatwave hazards for exploited marine species in the Pacific Ocean

 

Stephanie Moore (PhD OCF)

Investigating urbanisation-driven changes in marine ecosystem structure and function

 

Alex Schmill (MSc OCF)

Integrating seasonal eDNA and dynamic models to track biodiversity through changing oceans

 

Friday, December 6, 2024 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm

AERL Theatre 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, RSVP REQUIRED:

https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/

Note that applicants apply directly to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; graduate programs do not submit nominations.

Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships

The Mackenzie King Open Scholarship is open to graduates of any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) graduate study (master’s or doctoral) in any field, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded annually. The value has lately been $12,000 but is subject to change. 

The Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship is open to graduates of any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) graduate study (master’s or doctoral) in the United States or the United Kingdom, of international relations or industrial relations (including the international or industrial relations aspects of law, history, politics and economics).  Four Travelling Scholarships of $13,500 have lately been awarded annually, but the number and value of scholarships are subject to change.

Eligible applicants must be a graduate (holder of a degree) of a Canadian university when tenure of the scholarship begins (September 2025).

Applications must be made to the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the applicant’s home university. This is the Canadian university from which the applicant most recently graduated or at which the applicant is currently enrolled.

UBC application deadline: 1 February 2025 at 4:00 pm PT

For more information, including detailed application procedures and eligibility requirements, please see this link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/mackenzie-king-memorial-scholarships.