The FuturAgua project: 

Fostering regional drought resilience in Northwestern Costa Rica through international collaborative action research 

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory Building

2202 Main Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus

Vancouver 

Research Seminar: 12:30-1:30pm, AERL Theatre (room 120)

Poster Session + Lunch: 1:30-2:30pm, AERL Foyer 

RSVP required for lunch: futuraguaproject@gmail.com 

The FuturAgua project is an international, multidisciplinary, action-oriented research program involving three teams of researchers, funded by granting agencies in three countries, all focused on applied research to help build resilience to drought in the dry tropical northwest part of Costa Rica. The project was conceptualized, developed, and carried out in close collaboration with civil society groups and regional agencies that work to address important water questions in the region.  

This presentation will address the context, design, process, and key findings of the research conducted by UBC researchers, with input from the team members at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Andrea Suarez, Director of the Centre for Mesoamerica for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE) at the National University of Costa Rica, will provide regional perspectives on the project. The researchers will highlight some of the factors that led to the main successes of the project, and also reflect on some of the challenges of conducting a research project of this kind.  

After the seminar, there will be a poster session to showcase the project’s main research findings. Lunch will be served (RSVP required) 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS  

Tim McDaniels

Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning 

Douw Steyn

Professor Emeritus, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) 

Mark Johnson

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and EOAS 

Kai Chan

Professor, IRES 

INTERNATIONAL GUEST  

Andrea Suarez

Director of the Centre for Mesoamerica for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE), National University of Costa Rica

 

RESEARCHERS

 

Silja Hund

PhD Student EOAS

 

Laura Morillas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow IRES and EOAS

 

Paige Olmsted

Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Visiting Fellow Copenhagen Business School

 

Alejandra Echeverri

PhD Student IRES

 

Daniel Karp

Former Killam Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology UC Davis

 

 

See  you there! and Happy Halloween.

 

Carlina Kim

Administrative Assistant for Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

B.Sc Environmental Sciences

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 428-2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4

 

Email: carlina.kim@ubc.ca

Website: www.ires.ubc.ca

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Congratulations to Justin Falardeau, a PhD Student in the Food Science program, on receiving a 2017-2018 Killam Doctoral Scholarship! A photo of Justin receiving his certificate is here.

See more info and a complete list of winners.

Are you conducting qualitative research and interested in discussing paradigms, methods and analysis?

We are a group of social science graduate students in the Animal Welfare Program. Our research areas are diverse; however, we share the goal of understanding more about the people who care for animals in settings such as farms and laboratories using qualitative research approaches. We began meeting bi-weekly in October 2016 to discuss a broad range of topics such as research paradigms, methods, and validity, and also include areas of interest germane to our own research projects. We include reading materials to supplement the discussion and maintain a database of literature based on these materials.

At this point, we are interested in broadening our discussion group to include more diverse topics and perspectives and to meet other researchers outside of our program, and would like to do this by developing a Community of Practice (COP) group with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. We envision a group that includes students, faculty, and staff, and meets regularly to discuss topics in qualitative research that further group members’ learning.

For our next step in developing this COP, we’d like to invite other graduate students within LFS to join our group. We will be meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month at 3:00 pm. We will meet in our office (MCML 180) as long as space allows! Our next meeting will be Thursday Nov. 2, and the meeting agenda will involve each student giving an update of their current research projects and allow an opportunity for discussion.

If you would like to come, please email katie.koralesky@alumni.ubc.ca to confirm.

We hope to see you on the 2nd at 3:00 pm!

MFRE Speaker Series – Friday Nov 3^rd, 2017: Habibis Mediterranean Foods

Habibis Mediterranean Foods, Locally produced, Made in Canada, Healthy, Non GMO, Kosher, Fresh ingredients.

Speakers: Abe Chabaan, Founder / Co-Owner & Sofia Farah – Chaaban, Marketing

2pm in MCML160

All are invited!

Gabrielle Menard  MFRE Academic Coordinator, Graduating Projects Manager Land and Food Systems | Master of Food and Resource Economics The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada Cell 604 764 0305 gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/