Hello all,<\/p>\n
Happy Friday \u2013 I hope that the week has treated everyone well and that a restful weekend is ahead!<\/p>\n
I am very pleased to announce the second LFS Scholar Seminar of the series:<\/p>\n
Dr. Christy Morrissey from the University of Saskatchewan <\/b>will join us for a seminar titled, \u201cPerennializing Marginal Agricultural Lands- A Solution to Boost Carbon, Biodiversity and the Bottom Line<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thursday, November 7th, 1:30pm \u2013 2:30pm<\/p>\n
Location: MSL 102<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Mix and mingle social with coffee and cookies will follow!<\/p>\n Please register using the link<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Email risa.sargent@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a> if you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Morrissey while she\u2019s here.<\/p>\n Dr.\u00a0 Christy Morrissey is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research focusses on issues related to agricultural pesticides and other chemicals and the use of birds and insects as indicators of ecosystem health.\u00a0 Dr. Morrissey has published over 90 highly cited journal articles and book chapters and in 2020 was named to the Royal Society College of New Scholars<\/i>, Artists and Scientists. Her work has also been featured broadly in the national and international media and documentaries (CBC, BBC, National Geographic, Nature of Things, and The Messenger film). She is currently co-leading the NSERC funded Prairie Precision Sustainability Network Marginal Land Solutions project and the Bridge to Land Water Sky Living Lab to implement Nature-based solutions to improve sustainable agricultural production.<\/p>\n As provided by Dr. Morrissey a description of her talk:<\/p>\n Marginal croplands are defined as areas within fields that are consistently low yielding and unprofitable. These are often in sensitive higher biodiversity areas near wetlands or field edges but are subject to salinity, flood risk, soil erosion and can be agrochemical sinks. Given the need to address the dual crisis of biodiversity loss and climate change, there is urgent need to find solutions that provide multiple ecosystem benefits without affecting producers\u2019 bottom line.\u00a0 Our team is working with farmers across the Canadian Prairies to identify, map and model where the marginal cropland exists and target these areas for experimental conversion to tame and native perennial forage mixes to study the changes in agronomic, economic and environmental costs and benefits over the transition.<\/p>\n Please let me know if you have any questions, and we look forward to seeing everyone on November 7th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Warm regards,<\/p>\n Madison<\/p>\n Madison\u00a0Johnstone<\/b>\u00a0(She, Her, Hers<\/span><\/a>) Hello all, Happy Friday \u2013 I hope that the week has treated everyone well and that a restful weekend is ahead! I am very pleased to announce the second LFS Scholar Seminar of the series: Dr. Christy Morrissey from the University of Saskatchewan will join us for a seminar titled, \u201cPerennializing Marginal Agricultural Lands- A…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Graduate and Postdoctoral Program Assistant
\n<\/span>Faculty of Land and Food Systems
\n<\/span>The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
\n<\/span>291 – 2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada
\n<\/span>Phone 604 822 8373 Ext. 28373
\nmadison.johnstone@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"