{"id":5985,"date":"2019-12-19T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2019-12-19T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:56:31","slug":"res-500c-advanced-topics-in-conservation-biology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5985","title":{"rendered":"RES 500C: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>***<\/strong><strong>New course announcement \u2013 extra seats released***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are very pleased to announce that we have a new graduate course that is open to graduate students in all departments. We have added a few slots to this new course so please sign up if you are interested:<\/p>\n<p><strong>RES 500C:\u00a0 Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/graduate-program\/course-information\/\">http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/graduate-program\/course-information\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructor: <\/strong>Dr. Claire Kremen<\/p>\n<p>2019W, Term 2<\/p>\n<p>View the syllabus <a href=\"http:\/\/ires2015.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2019\/06\/RES-500C-Conservation-Science-Seminar-CK-2020-Syllabus.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This course is a graduate level seminar with lecture and discussion covering advanced topics in conservation of biological diversity.\u00a0\u00a0 We will read a mixture of foundational as well as recent papers covering a range of current topics within Conservation Biology.\u00a0\u00a0One of the most exciting aspects of the course is that students will have the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams on an active conservation project, commissioned by international and local NGOs (for example, World Wildlife Fund and Delta Wildlife Farmland Trust).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Students will prepare deliverables that will help these organizations in their current on-the-ground work, under the guidance of the instructor and the project lead(s) from respective NGOs.\u00a0\u00a0Group projects represent an exciting and unique opportunity to learn while contributing to conservation, and can lead to future projects or co-authored publications, resum\u00e9-building and networking. \u00a0Students will also gain experience leading discussions and developing interactive class exercises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All graduate students with some background in ecology and a strong interest in conservation are welcome.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Students with any prior experience in GIS, statistics, economics, decision support tools,\u00a0data science\u00a0OR other quantitative skills, and\/or background in policy, business, planning and social sciences, are also particularly encouraged to enroll. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***New course announcement \u2013 extra seats released*** We are very pleased to announce that we have a new graduate course that is open to graduate students in all departments. We have added a few slots to this new course so please sign up if you are interested: RES 500C:\u00a0 Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/graduate-program\/course-information\/&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-5985","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\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}