Seats still available for this week’s:

Thesis Boot Camp (2 day event with panel and writing sessions)

Wed & Thu, Nov 29 & 30, 1 PM – 5 PM @ Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16446-thesis-boot-camp-2-day

 

Registration now open for:

Statistics III: Two Group Comparisons and ANOVA Models (via Webinar)

Mon, Dec 4, 1 PM – 3 PM PST

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16230-statistics-iii-two-group-comparisons-anova-models-webinar

 

Foundations of Project Management (2-Day, students MUST commit to attending both full days)

Wed & Thu, Dec 6 & 7, 9 AM – 5 PM @ Thea Koerner House

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16371-foundations-project-management-i-2-days

 

Conflict Resolution: Managing Tough People and Even Tougher Situations

In-person: Fri, Dec 8, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM @ Thea Koerner House

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16537-conflict-resolution-managing-tough-people-even-tougher-situations

Webinar: Fri, Dec 8, 2 PM – 3:30 PM PST

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16567-conflict-resolution-managing-tough-people-even-tougher-situations-webinar

 

Visit community.grad.ubc.ca for other opportunities including:

Management Consulting + Internship Info Session (virtual), Nov 29 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4193

Lunchtime Talks at the Liu Institute, Nov 30 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4197

Formatting your Thesis, Dec 5 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3940

Citation Management with Refworks, Dec 12 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3941

Free ISW: Foundations of Pedagogy, register by Dec 15 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4188

Registration is now open for Jan 13^th’s Student Leadership Conference  https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4199

 

Thank you,

Jacqui.

Jacqui Brinkman
Manager, Graduate Pathways to Success Program
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

Food production is one of the largest contributors to climate change, accounting for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Diets and food choices, particularly as they pertain to animal protein, also provide one of the most effective ways for individuals to limit their own carbon footprints. Over the past 15 years, a growing number of seafood production systems have been assessed to determine their relative contributions to GHGs and other emissions.

These studies have primarily used a tool called life cycle assessment — capturing
the impacts at each stage of production from ocean to plate — producing over 60 papers to date from case studies in both wild capture and aquaculture systems.
This presentation is intended to provide a brief overview of observed patterns in GHG emissions from fisheries and aquaculture as well as consistent drivers and opportunities for improvement across the industry. Results will be presented from a recently accepted paper to Nature Climate Change modelling the GHG emissions of the global fishing industry. Finally, the presentation will preview work being done in collaboration with Dalhousie University and Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program to communicate the carbon footprint of fisheries and
aquaculture production via an interactive website.

Dr. Robert Parker
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Fisheries Economic Research Unit, IOF

Robert Parker has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries since January 2017. He completed his PhD at the University of Tasmania where he quantified the rates and drivers of fuel consumption in Australian and global fisheries. He has conducted life cycle assessments of Antarctic krill fisheries, lobster fisheries, and Atlantic salmon farming, and has worked with industry and non-governmental organizations interested
in understanding the application of carbon footprinting and life cycle assessments to seafood operations and products. His current work focuses on modelling seafood supply chains as sources of protein and caloric energy, and relating the relative environmental performance of seafood systems to their ability to provide a net nutritional benefit.

December 1 w 11:00am w AERL 120
SEMINAR

Please update your personal coordinates on SSC (address, contacts, phone number, email address) ASAP.

 

FASMail – please activate

In response to privacy and security concerns as outlined in BC Provincial FIPPA legislation and UBC Policy #104, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems has assigned each of our graduate students a new UBC email account (FASMail).

This email account will remain active for the duration of your studies at LFS and must be used for all UBC-related correspondence. Starting in the spring of 2016, this email address will be the only one used by the LFS Grad Student Office to contact you.

Account Details

Your email address is: Your_CWL_ID@mail.ubc.ca

Web Interface:  www.mail.ubc.ca

Account Setup

To activate your email account, please login (without “.stu”) and change your CWL password .   (If you already have a FASMail account, you do not need to change your CWL password).

To test, log in. If your mail box is there, you don’t need to do anything else. If you need to create a FASMail mailbox, follow these instructions.

 

Updating your email account in the SSC and notify Lia in the grad programs office

To ensure that emails are not sent inadvertently to a non UBC email, please update your preferred email address in your SSC profile to this new email account.  This is especially important when you are appointed as a TA, as Connect retrieves email addresses for TA’s from SSC.

Security Awareness Training

UBCIT offers free online training on security awareness.

Questions?

Contact the LFS Learning Centre via email, it@landfood.ubc.ca, or in person in MCM 264.

Edmund Seow
Computer Systems Manager
The Learning Centre
Faculty of Land and Food Systems

NOTE: please notify me about your intention of applying ASAP but not later than Friday, November 24^th. 

You may consider working on your CGS-M or Affiliated Fellowship application with your supervisor.

Or at least have it reviewed by your supervisor before submit it.

Once submitted, no corrections/updates would be possible. 

The Fall 2017 Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M) application is available on the Tri-Agency Research Portal
(http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudiants/pg-cs/cgsm-bescm_eng.asp).

The deadline across Canada for applications is 5pm Pacific Standard Time on Friday, 1 December 2017. After this time, the Research Portal will close, and there will be no opportunity to re-open the application. This is the deadline for all application materials, including reference letters. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that their references are submitted on time.
Please note that when identifying UBC as your institution, the official name is “The University of British Columbia”.

Instructions for completing a CGS-M application (including transcript requirements) are available online
(http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche/Instructions-Instructions/CGS_M-BESC_M_eng.asp).

The Fall 2017 Affiliated Fellowships Master’s-level competition runs in parallel to the Tri-Agency CGS-M competition. The Affiliated Fellowships materials for Master’s-level funding have now been posted to the Graduate Awards website:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships-masters-program

The deadline by which Affiliated Fellowship applications for Master’s-level funding must be submitted to the applicant’s UBC graduate program is Friday, 1 December 2017 (same as the deadline for Tri-Agency CGS-M applications).

November 30, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Wade Davis

IRES Seminar Series

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday)

Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall 

Pizza will be served at 12pm on the 4th floor of AERL.  There’s a limit of one slice per seminar attendee to ensure everyone has pizza.

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The WayfindersAbstract:

The myriad of cultures in the world, with their own traditions and beliefs, are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. Each is an inspired expression of our collective genius, each a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?  Every culture has something to say, each deserves to be heard, just as none has a monopoly on the route to the divine. And yet of the world’s 7000 languages, fully half are not being taught to infants. Every fortnight an elder passes away and carries into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue. At risk is a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination that is the human legacy. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed in culture, is among the central challenges of our time.

  

 

Bio:

Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 20 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the National Geographic Channel. Davis is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers’ Club, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award and the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. 

See you there! 

Bonnie Leung

UBC IRES