Dear LFS Graduate Students,

Please join us for Geomatics Career Conversations on Thursday, February 2^nd, 2023, hosted by UBC Forestry’s Masters of Geomatics for Environmental Management. This event is open to all graduate students interested in a career in geomatics/GIS with environmental or resource management applications.

This is not your typical networking event — don’t miss this opportunity to connect with GIS professionals in an approachable setting! First, hear from a diverse group of GIS experts in a panel discussion sharing advice on launching your career in the GIS/geomatics sector. You’ll then get to chat with them and ask questions in small, loosely facilitated groups designed to start conversations and build meaningful connections.

We are looking forward to the upcoming Geomatics Career Conversations event on February 2^nd, and hope you are too!

If you haven’t already RSVP’d, please do so here before January 27^th.

Date:	Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Time:	9:30 am – 12:30 pm (Doors open at 9:10 am)
Structure:	Moderated panel discussion followed by small-group conversations
Venue:	UBC Alumni Centre, Jack Poole Hall (2nd floor)

Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be provided.

 

Check out the updated list of employers you’ll get to meet at our event:

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Ecora Engineering and Resource Group

Zoetica Wildlife Research Services Inc.

ESRI

Spatial Vision Group

Licker Geospatial Consulting

Eagle Mapping

David Suzuki Foundation

Inlailawatash

EarthDaily Analytics

Mosaic Forest Management

Dillon Consulting Ltd.
BGC Engineering Ltd.
TRE Altamira
Ostrom Climate
FPInnovations

Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be provided.  

Please RSVP here by Friday January 29^th!  

Here are some of the employers you’ll get to meet:

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Ecora Engineering and Resource Group

Zoetica Wildlife Research Services Inc.

ESRI

Spatial Vision Group

Licker Geospatial Consulting

Eagle Mapping

David Suzuki Foundation

Inlailawatash

EarthDaily Analytics

Mosaic Forest Management

We look forward to seeing you on February 2^nd!

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions at maya.fromstein@ubc.ca.

Best wishes,

Maya

Maya Fromstein

(PronounsLinks to an external site.:    she/her)

Landscape Ecology Lab – Research Scientist

Masters of Geomatics in Environmental Management (MGEM) – Program Assistant

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

 

LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE & LAND AND FOOD SYSTEMS TA TRAINING PROGRAMS PRESENT
Mini-Workshop Series: Inclusive Teaching

When: February 8th | 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Register here

Interested in learning about how to make your classroom more inclusive? Please join us!
Lunch will be provided!

Where:
Biological Sciences Building
(BIOL 1012)

Cheers,
Alysha Deslippe (MSc)

Doctoral Student, LFS TA Training Program Coordinator

Nutrition and Eating Behaviour (NEB) Lab | Healthy Starts

University of British Columbia | BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

alyshade@student.ubc.ca | alysha.deslippe@bcchr.ubc.ca

This week’s IRES Seminar is in Michael Smith Labs Theatre (102-2185 East Mall).  REMINDER: No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

 

January 26, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton

Talk Title: Weathering

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre (102-2185 East Mall)

This seminar is in-person only.

This seminar will not be recorded.

Talk summary:

This talk will define the feminist concept of “weathering” and describe how it can be used to guide research design and analysis in interdisciplinary environmental studies. We will illustrate how this concept works using practical examples from our own research as The Weathering Collective, and other initiatives in Canada (The FEELed Lab) and Australia (Community Weathering Station). People interested in climate change want us to speak about the rain, but we want to speak about social relations. Attentive to the logic of weathering, we can build a new language to speak about how meteorological weather intersects with anthropocentric politics and infrastructures in ways that insist that weather, and by extension climate change, are always more-than-meteorological. Weathering demands that research on climate change attend to the experiences and inheritances of bodies in all of their differences. As we are always weathering, how can we use this capacious concept to help shape research methods and questions? How might these questions illuminate different kinds of mitigation and adaptation measures as necessary for better weathering?

 

 

Dr. Astrida Neimanis (right), Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, and Director of the FEELed Lab at UBC Okanagan
Dr. Jennifer Hamilton (left), Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at University of New England, founder of The Community Weathering Station

Bio:

Astrida Neimanis is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, and Director of the FEELed Lab at UBC Okanagan (Kelowna, Canada); Jennifer Mae Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at UNE (Armidale, Australia) and founder of CoWS (The Community Weathering Station). Since 2015,  Jennifer and Astrida have been been experimenting, researching, writing, and making together: as co-coordinators of COMPOSTING Feminisms and the Environmental Humanities; as co-convenors of Hacking the Anthropocene 2016-2018, and (with Tessa Zettel) as founding members of The Weathering Collective. Their most recent co-authored publication is “Feminist Infrastructures for Better Weathering” (Australian Feminist Studies, 2021).

 

 

See you on Thursday in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre!

 

_______________________________________________________________________________

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

Are you a graduate or undergraduate student conducting research in LFS?

Submit your abstract to the 2023 Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference!

The Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference is a one-day, student-organized conference designed to showcase the diverse graduate research and work taking place in our faculty. This conference aims to highlight the excellent work of our graduate students by providing an opportunity to present at a formal and interdisciplinary academic conference.

Where: GSS Loft

When: Tuesday, March 2, 2023

How: Submit your abstract here by Feb 7th | Register to attend here by Feb 27th

 You can find more information on the conference here, and guidelines for presenters here.

This one-day event will include an interdisciplinary plenary address, poster and oral presentations, lunch, and an award ceremony. Awards and cash prizes will be presented for outstanding oral and poster presentations.

If you have any questions about the conference or abstract submission, email lfsgrads@gmail.com.

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Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council

lfsgrads@gmail.com

 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM (PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIPS) 

The UBC Sustainability Hub is pleased to offer UBC graduate students the opportunity to work on funded sustainability internship projects.

We are currently accepting applications for over 64 internships that will commence May 1, 2023. Current UBC graduate students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to confirm the eligibility requirements and apply.

Successful candidates work under the guidance of a mentor at one of our partner organizations, and are immersed in real world learning where they can apply their research skills and contribute to advancing sustainability and climate action across the region. Each Scholar receives $25 per hour to complete 250 hours of work.

For more information on the available projects and to apply, visit the Sustainability Scholars Program website.

Applications will be accepted until midnight Sunday January 29.

We also appreciate your help in circulating this notice to anyone in your grad student network that may be interested!

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Karen Taylor  MA (she, her)
Manager, Sustainability Scholars Program | Sustainability Hub
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2343 – 2260 West Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 822 9362 | karen.taylor@ubc.ca | https://sustain.ubc.ca/scholars