LFS Today July 26, 2021 | LFS Intranet 2020

LFS in the News

Dr. Hans Schreier, a professor emeritus of land and water systems, was featured in a segment on Global News discussing the potential implications of an early heat wave and no significant rain in sight. Global News Morning BC

United Way LFS ClimbUP Team

Are YOU UP for the challenge? Join or Donate to the United Way LFS ClimbUP Team!

Hike, run or walk your way through a 10-day challenge (Sept 23 to Oct 2) this fall and help raise funds in support of people most in need in your community. Safely connect with family, friends and co-workers while exploring neighbourhoods you live, work and play in, knowing you’re making a difference locally. Your participation will help strengthen vital connections for our most vulnerable neighbours ensuring they are able to access the supports and services they need. Together, we can make our community stronger, one step at a time.

If you’d like to join us, please visit our Team Page using the link below.
Team Page: https://secure.qgiv.com/event/cli202/team/882351/
Team Name: UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Team Captain: Barbara Hsiao

Online registration is easy – it only takes a few minutes! ClimbUP 2021 is an important event for us, and I hope you can join us! If you’d like more details about the event, please visit https://secure.qgiv.com/event/cli202/. You can also feel free to email me at barbara.hsiao@ubc.ca if you have any questions.

Supporting Classroom Climate with CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Resources

23 August | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

This session will showcase four resources that the CTLT Indigenous Initiatives team have co-created to support bridging knowledge gaps in curriculum and ways to create supportive and productive classroom climates.

Register here

Deep Space Food Challenge

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is working with NASA on the Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition to develop new technologies to produce food for future space missions while expanding opportunities for food production on Earth.

The Deep Space Food Challenge seeks to create novel food production technologies that require minimal inputs (materials, energy, water, etc.) and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food.

The deadline to submit a design concept for their food production technology is July 30, 2021.

More information about the challenge can be found on the website.

PICS Calling for Opportunity Projects Proposals

Apply to get your high-impact climate solutions proposal funded by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) Opportunity Projects Program.

Successful projects are awarded up to $180,000 over a maximum three-year duration, and three to five awards are made per call.

Applications close on August 04, 2021. Notification of adjudication decisions will be made in December 2021, with projects to start in 2022.

For more information, visit the PICS Opportunity Projects Program page, read the 2021 Competition Guide for Applicants, or contact picsopp@uvic.ca.

To explore what PICS has funded so far under our OPPs program, click here.