{"id":10359,"date":"2024-02-21T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2024-02-21T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:03:30","slug":"ires-seminar-series-thurs-feb-29-with-tatiana-chamorro-vargas-and-jumi-gogoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-10359","title":{"rendered":"IRES Seminar Series: Thurs, Feb 29 with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Next week\u2019s IRES Seminar is in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4>Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm<\/h4>\n<h4>Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/u5IqcOisrDMuEtVwKpXmPwech5MbUelRv4XE\">here<\/a>\u00a0for Zoom link. Zoom will be terminated if we encounter tech problems 5 to 10 mins into the seminar.<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Talk summary:<\/p>\n<p>Colombia is a global biodiversity hotspot of important ecological significance. However, deforestation is rampant in the country, and its primary cause is extensive cattle ranching which is inefficient, susceptible to climatic events, contributes to poverty, and causes unsustainable levels of environmental degradation such as water pollution. An agroecological alternative to ECR is Silvopastoral systems (SPS) which combine trees and shrubs in forage grasses to enhance cattle production. Thus, the goal of my research is to determine how SPS practices can be scaled out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>IRES MSc Student<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bio:<\/p>\n<p>Tatiana Chamorro (she\/her) is an MSc student in the Working to Restore Connectivity and Sustainability\u00a0 (WoRCS) Lab at IRES and is supervised by Dr. Claire Kremen. Her research focuses on the scaling up of sustainable\u00a0cattle ranching practices in Colombia, as she is highly interested in biodiversity conservation and ecology. She is a recipient of the Philip A. Jones Fellowship 2022-2023. She is also the trip coordinator for the RES Student Society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talk summary:<\/p>\n<p>Timely and reliable estimation of crop production is essential for strategic decision making in the agricultural system. Recently, detailed ground-based field-scale yield datasets have become available providing a timely opportunity for using high spatial resolution observational data for model training. The key research objective was to develop a crop-yield prediction model using satellite and biophysical data and calibrated using field-scale yield monitor data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Jumi Gogoi<\/strong>,\u00a0recent <em>PhD graduate in IRES<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bio:<\/p>\n<p>Jumi recently completed her PhD in IRES under the supervision of Dr. Navin Ramankutty. She is pursuing her research interests in mobilizing methods from data science to answer questions about food security. Her PhD work specifically focuses on developing modeling methods using different datasets for improving prediction of crop production. Jumi has an interdisciplinary academic background and has completed studies\u00a0in analytics, economics, and business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See you on Feb 29 in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonnie Leung <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RES Program Support (she\/her\/hers)<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<\/p>\n<p>Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)<\/p>\n<p>Room 429 \u2013 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:bonnie.leung@ubc.ca\">bonnie.leung@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tel: 604-822-9249<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week\u2019s IRES Seminar is in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre. February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre. 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