{"id":4291,"date":"2018-03-19T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:41:05","slug":"mfre-friday-seminar-march-23-dr-sean-smukler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4291","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Friday Seminar &#8211; March 23: Dr. Sean Smukler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><u><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">MFRE Speaker Series<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Speaker:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0Dr. Sean Smukler<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Topic:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0Agriculture and Climate Change<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Date &amp; Time:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0Friday, March 23rd, 3:30 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Venue:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0ORCH 1001<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">About the Speaker:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Originally from Berkeley, California, Smukler earned a PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis (2008) \u2013 where he spent time working on the UC Davis student farm \u2013 and an MSc in Forest Soils at the University of Washington in Seattle (2003).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Prior to joining our Faculty in January 2012, Smukler spent three years at The Earth Institute at Columbia University as a Post Doctoral Fellow and then an Associate Research Scientist in the Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program. His research was focused on the Millennium Village project, a large-scale development project mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he evaluated the environmental impacts of interventions at project sites in Tanzania and Kenya and helped in the baseline analysis of a new site in Haiti.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Excerpt taken from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reachout.landfood.ubc.ca\/2012\/sean-smukler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/reachout.landfood.ubc.ca\/2012\/sean-smukler\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">All are welcome!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Best regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Shristee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Shristee\u00a0Rahman<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nEducational Researcher<br \/>\nLand and Food Systems\u00a0|\u00a0Master of Food and Resource Economics<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">348A<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">-2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">shristee.rahman@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><u><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFRE Speaker Series \u00a0Speaker:\u00a0Dr. Sean Smukler Topic:\u00a0Agriculture and Climate Change Date &amp; Time:\u00a0Friday, March 23rd, 3:30 PM Venue:\u00a0ORCH 1001\u00a0 About the Speaker: Originally from Berkeley, California, Smukler earned a PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis (2008) \u2013 where he spent time working on the UC Davis student farm \u2013 and an MSc&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","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\/4291","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\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}