{"id":6723,"date":"2020-11-12T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2020-11-12T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:00:42","slug":"res-500c-advanced-topics-in-conservation-biology-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6723","title":{"rendered":"RES 500C: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"

***Course Announcement\u00a0– Winter\u00a0Term 2***<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are very pleased to announce that RES 500C is open to graduate students in all departments, please feel free to sign up if you are interested:<\/p>\n

RES 500C:\u00a0 Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu&Th 1:30 \u2013 3:00 (to be adjusted as needed based on time zones)<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/courses\/course-information\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

This course is a graduate level seminar with lecture and discussion covering advanced topics in conservation of biological diversity.\u00a0We will read a mixture of foundational as well as recent papers covering a range of current topics within Conservation Biology.\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.\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.\u00a0A partial list of this year\u2019s projects is provided below.\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.\u00a0 Students will also gain experience leading discussions and developing interactive class exercises.<\/p>\n

All graduate students with some background in ecology and a strong interest in conservation are welcome.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Students with any prior experience in GIS, remote-sensing,\u00a0OR other quantitative skills, OR social sciences\/qualitative coding, botany, wildlife ecology, Indigenous knowledge systems, project management, literature review are also particularly encouraged to enroll. All departments are\u00a0welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

2021 projects (partial list):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nature Conservancy Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Bringing Indigenous ways of knowing into NCC\u2019s conservation and land management planning<\/li>\n
  2. Evaluating use of scientific evidence in NCC\u2019s conservation planning (building from a project this class conducted last year)<\/li>\n
  3. Use of NCC protected area network as avian migratory stop-over sites<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Canadian Wildlife Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Detecting spatio-temporal change in land condition in critical habitat for species at risk in British Columbia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      UBC Botanical Garden\/CGIAR\/USDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Developing a 10-yr action plan for botanical gardens for conserving crop wild relatives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        ***Course Announcement\u00a0– Winter\u00a0Term 2*** We are very pleased to announce that RES 500C is open to graduate students in all departments, please feel free to sign up if you are interested: RES 500C:\u00a0 Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology Tu&Th 1:30 \u2013 3:00 (to be adjusted as needed based on time zones) http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/courses\/course-information\/ Course Description This…<\/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-6723","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\/6723","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=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}