Hello LFS grads,

This is it—the final deadline to submit your abstract for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference is tonight, January 24th, 2025, at 11:59 pm!

Don’t miss this chance to share your research and be part of an exciting lineup of presentations.

Please remember to:

1. Review the abstract guidelines???? 
2. Submityour abstract before the clock strikes midnight.
3. register for the conferenceto secure your spot! 

We can’t wait to celebrate your contributions and the amazing work of our LFS grad community. Please note that late abstract submissions will not be accepted.

For more info, visit our website or email us (lfsgrads@gmail.com) with any questions.

 

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Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council

lfsgrads@gmail.com

IOF SEMINAR – January 24, 2025 Big Fish, Little Fish: Incorporating Youth into Marine Science Today’s youth makes up a significant portion of the global population yet they hold the least power— institutionally speaking. As climate change threatens the sake of our futures, it is important more than ever to get youth involved in the the climate movement and ocean sciences. By learning ways to encourage, support, and uplift youth in our own work, we can empower the next generation of scientists to fight for a livable future.

Chanté Davis Youth Climate Activist

Friday, January 24, 2025 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm Over Zoom

IOF SEMINAR – January 31, 2025 Good Trouble: Revitalizing Ancestral Indigenous Laws, Governance, and Practices to Restore Ocean Relationships Coast Salish fishing weir stakes Comox BC Canada. Guinness323, CC BY-SA 3.0  via Wikimedia Common “What do we need to change in ocean research, governance, and policy?” This is the foremost question we have been asking given current colonial laws and practices have failed to resolve crises of social inequity, biodiversity loss, and climate change brought about by centuries of colonial laws and practices. By combining research and action, several Indigenous-led transdisciplinary initiatives throughout the Pacific Rim are revitalizing and upholding ancestral Indigenous laws and governance systems that reflect generations of observing, experimenting, experiencing, and adapting to environmental change. For example, the Clam Garden Network, Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative, and Coastal Voices are beginning to increase the social-ecological resilience, productivity, and biodiversity of coastal ocean communities amid extreme climatic events, predator recovery, and socio-political rhetoric. Key ingredients to success include uplifting Hereditary Indigenous leaders and their management knowledge, acknowledging past harms, bridging sovereign knowledge systems, engaging youth and community members anxious to make a difference, and experimenting with diverse care-taking practices grounded in respect, responsibility, reciprocity, and interconnectedness. Underlying these actions are collaborative, transparent, accountable, and long-term, reciprocal relationships. Ultimately, making meaningful change towards an ecologically safe and socially just future for our oceans, and all they encompass, demands replacing entrenched power inequities and siloed practices in biodiversity science and ocean policies with equitable governance processes, systems thinking, continuous learning, and tangible long-term actions. Ḵii’iljuus (Barbara Wilson) Centre for Indigenous Fisheries Haida Matriarch Dr. Anne Salomon Professor Simon Fraser University

Friday, January 31, 2025 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm Live: UBC’s 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/

The next IRES Seminar is in AERL Room 107.  The speaker will be presenting virtually.

January 30, 2025: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Dr. Leslie McLees

Why are we here: Translating your university experiences to non-academic career pathways

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: AERL Rm 107 (2202 Main Mall)

Available on Zoom

Talk summary:

Academics are well-prepared to support students navigating an academic career. We tend to be less prepared to help students articulate their skills to careers and life outside academia. Often, graduate students feel overqualified for jobs or are so focused on their research that they are only looking for jobs and careers in that content area, unaware that the vast skills they develop in graduate school are highly sought after in the government, non-profit, and private sectors.

This talk will provide:

• ways of seeing the personal and professional strengths and skills that you have,
• some tangible and effective job-search strategies, and
• help you focus on what you cando

The goal is to empower you to understand who you are and what you can do, regardless of where you are in your grad school journey.

 

Dr. Leslie McLees

Undergraduate Program Director & Senior Instructor in the Department of Geography

University of Oregon

Bio:

Leslie McLees is a Senior Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. She co-developed and co-teaches the UO’s first college-wide course that links liberal arts to career readiness. She has held workshops for undergraduates and graduate students to empower them to reflect on and realize the skills and strengths they develop throughout their university careers. After all, if we tell students they need a certain degree to be successful in their professional and personal lives, we should be able to show them how that degree contributes to that success.

See you next Thursday in AERL Room 107! 

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Bonnie Leung

RES Program Support (she/her/hers)

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 429 – 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada

Email: bonnie.leung@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-9249

 

Check out our IRES Seminar Series!

 

Wall Awards

Graduate awards, ranging in value from $25,000 (for Master’s students) to $30,000 (for Ph.D. students), have been made available through the Peter Wall Legacy Fund, an endowment established by Peter Wall, for graduate students whose research relates to one of three specific areas of interest:

• sustainable approaches to and development of the general urban environment, including water, energy and transportation infrastructure in British Columbia;
• environmental protection of oceans, beaches and waterfronts that impact British Columbia;
• and sustainable approaches to resource-intensive industry in British Columbia.

Projects within these areas of interest will principally relate to British Columbia, but may also apply to and address other Canadian and international regions.

These awards are intended to support students in their 5th and/or 6th year of their PhD program and to students in their 2nd or 3rd year of their Master’s program. Funding is available for up to 12 months for Master’s awardees, or until program completion, and for up to 24 months for PhD awardees, or until program completion. All awards will commence from September 1, 2025.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025 at 4:00PM PT. Applications are submitted by applicants directly to G+PS.

Further information, including eligibility requirements and complete application procedures, is available on our website at: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/wall-awards.

Questions can be directed to graduate.awards@ubc.ca.