LFS Today Jan 26, 2022

 News  

Call for Nominations – International Day of Women & Girls in Science

In the days leading up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Friday, February 11, LFS will be highlighting five students on our social media channels and website. We are looking for nominations from faculty and staff of students who have demonstrated community leadership, academic excellence, or who have overcome barriers to study at UBC.

If you’d like to nominate an undergraduate or graduate student who self-identifies as a woman, please send their contact information to lfs.today@ubc.ca by Thursday, January 27 at 10am. We will select five people and reach out to profile them.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Shannon Wong
LFS Communications Coordinator
shannon.wong@ubc.ca

Wellness Wednesdays

Bell Let’s Talk Day is Wednesday, January 26, and UBC is joining to help drive mental health progress. Together, over the years, they have taken big steps to reduce the stigma around mental health issues and inspire one another to take action and help create a Canada where everyone can access the mental health support they need. This year’s campaign is about supporting ourselves and each other because now, more than ever, mental health matters.

Follow @HealthyUBC on Twitter on January 26 to take part in the conversation.

 Events  

Today – Teaching Seminar

Anna Brisco, Candidate for Lecturer in Dietetics Education
Teaching Seminar:  Sustainable Food Systems: The roles and responsibilities of registered dietitians
Wednesday, January 26, 11:00am-12:00pm
Register here

Today – Forest(Reads): Black Faces, White Spaces

The first step to building community is showing up. The Faculty of Forestry invites you to join their virtual book club, Forest(Reads), on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. This year’s Forest(Reads) focuses on understanding Black experiences within the environmental field with “Black Faces, White Spaces” by Dr. Carolyn Finney. Join and find out more here

Upcoming Events: 

Late March 2022: 

Discount Purchase: Click Here                               Join the club: Click Here

All events except the March author visit will be held virtually through their Canvas Site.

“Whiteness as a way of knowing becomes the way of understanding our environment, and through representation and rhetoric, becomes part of our educational systems, our institutions and our personal beliefs (Sunberg 2002; DeLucal & Demo 2001; Smedley 1993)”
– A passage from Black Faces White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

Jan. 28 – SOIL 500 Seminar

Speaker: Paula Porto Resque
M.Sc. student in Soil Science, supervisor Dr. Sean Smukler
Title: Impact of soil drainage and water table level on soil greenhouse gas emissions  from blueberry farms in Delta, B.C
Date & location: Friday Jan 28, 2022 3:00-4:00 pm
Livestreamed via zoom (see details below for how to join)

Abstract: Managing soil drainage is crucial for agricultural production in regions with humid climate and poorly drained soils. Soil water content is an important driver of soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; however, the impact of artificial drainage practices on emissions has not been extensively studied in perennial agroecosystems. An observational study was conducted in nine fields planted with highbush blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) on silt loam Gleysols in Delta, British Columbia. The following three drainage systems were investigated: (i) undrained, (ii) drained with subsurface tiles, and (iii) drained with tiles and pumps (pumped). Water table level and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes (CO₂, N₂O, and CH₄) were measured every two weeks from June 2017 to June 2019 using the non-steady-state chamber technique. In this seminar I will discuss the effect of drainage system and water table level on soil GHG emissions, and evaluate the performance of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 methods for estimating GHG emissions from blueberry farms in BC.

How to Join
Livestreaming via zoom is available for this presentation; pre-registration required.
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MvduurrT4oHNF6SJLdx8V34tYVfePOWLyj
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please note that you only need to register once for both terms.

More information: bit.ly/soil500

Jan. 31 & Feb. 1 – Research and Teaching Seminars – Food and Resource 

We will be interviewing two additional candidates for the position of Assistant Professor in Food and Resource Economics, on Jan 31-Feb 1 and Feb 1-2.   We have included their information below, along with Zoom links to each of the seminars.  We hope that you will be able to attend and to provide feedback to the selection committee via the Canvas link:
https://canvas.ubc.ca/enroll/PD3LEG.  A copy of the advertisement can be found here.

Molly Sears, PhD candidate, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Molly Sears is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include environmental and agricultural economics, climate change economics, and applied econometrics. Her current work involves measuring damages from degraded water quality and benefits from recycled water programs, nitrogen application and management practice adoption, recycling behavior and policy, and climate change impacts to agricultural yields. She especially enjoys multidisciplinary and policy-relevant work.

Research Seminar:  Valuing Recycled Water for Irrigation: Direct and Indirect Benefits to Coastal Agriculture
January 31, 3:30-5:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UodO2qpjIoHNGq57wAL71quZx7se2mVxqs

Teaching Seminar: Emerging tools for Data Analysis in Economics
February 1, 2:00-3:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Atc–srDktGt0XsTY17yDew78PTeuP5UNN

Graduate Student Roundtable
Jan 31, 1:00-1:45pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68127593900?pwd=L3A4a3l4bWpjdGJBV2t6Y24zRG5JZz09
Meeting ID: 681 2759 3900
Passcode: 554614

Joakim Weill, PhD Candidate, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Joakim (Jo) Weill is an applied microeconomist and data scientist working at the intersection of environmental and public economics. His research explores the origins and consequences of environmental inequalities, and investigates how we can design social insurance and anti-poverty programs to deliver equitable outcomes under environmental change. His current projects investigate households’ responses to disaster risk information, the impacts of federal housing assistance on residential outcomes, and measuring the evolution of environmental inequalities globally.

Research Seminar:  Perilous Flood Risk Assessments
February 1, 10:00-11:30am
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Esfuyopz8sGtx_8VgCwdoLKvib9PD7GHhg

Teaching Seminar: Emerging tools for Data Analysis in Economics
February 2, 12:30-1:30pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aqd-ihpzMrHtWvylNWvHBgH7yNfsM_mcIL

Graduate Student Roundtable
Feb 1, 2:00-2:45pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61936343192?pwd=dTB0S2Q3YVQ1QnVRK0R6c3QrNjVsdz09
Meeting ID: 619 3634 3192
Passcode: 662114

 Deadlines  

Feb. 4 – Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (Deadline extended)

The UBC Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CIS&C) have extended the proposal submission deadline for the Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (WL IURA) to February 4, 2022. The websites and the UBC CareersOnline online form have been updated to reflect the extended deadline.

Are you looking for funding to hire international undergraduate students to work full-time on your research for Summer 2022? The Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards provides an award subsidy to hire international undergraduate students to work on your research projects while allowing students to explore workplace and research skills. These awards are valued at $6,000 and are distributed across seven Faculties/Schools at UBC Vancouver Campus.

The Faculty of Land & Food Systems has Ten (10) WLIURAs available for 2022.

Program timeline:

• Call for Research Project Proposals period: November 29, 2021 – February 4, 2022.
  • Note: Faculty members will need to submit a proposal(s) on UBC CareersOnline. A student can work with a faculty member to submit a proposal together.
• The Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CIS&C) to send all research project proposals pertaining to the Faculty/School by Friday, February 11, 2022.
• Deadline for Faculty/School offices to submit their list of funded proposals: Friday, February 25, 2022.
• CSI&C will send funding decisions to faculty members by Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
• For faculty members who have not indicated an internal candidate for their position(s), it will be posted on UBC CareersOnline for students to apply from March 7 – 20, 2022.

Additional information about the program can be found on the Faculty and Staff webpage. Student eligibility information is available on Student Services website. LFS evaluation criteria and process are available on LFS Research Support website.

Please contact LFS Undergraduate Student Research Awards lfs.nserc-usra@ubc.ca if you have any questions.

Feb. 7 – Vancouver Foundation Participatory Action Research (PAR) Grants

Applications are open for Participatory Action Research Grants (PAR) until February 7 at 11:59 PM (PT).

PAR grants fund projects that question and investigate the root causes of complex community health issues. Within this broad context, we’re also interested in receiving proposals that investigate the root causes of racism and other discriminatory behaviours and beliefs experienced by adults and children within health systems.

Available PAR Grants:

1. Convene Grants – Short-term grants up to $20,000 to help teams unpack a complex heath issue and to question the systemic behaviours that have created or sustained it. They are intended to help teams develop a research question and project plan to be funded in the future.
2. Investigate Grants – Multi-year grants up to $100,000 per year for up to three years to help teams answer a research question, analyze their findings, and share knowledge in a way that supports the community to take action in the future.

Download the Granting Guidelines and the 2022 Addendum for more information, including how we’ve updated the application form to make it easier to apply.

If you have any questions, contact us at grants.admin@vancouverfoundation.ca.

Learn more and apply here