LFS Today July 9, 2021

LFS in the News

Jennifer Grenz was featured in an article about the wildfires in Lytton, where the surrounding Indigenous reserves have been entirely destroyed, except for a single fireproof home. Over 1,000 people, largely made up of Indigenous Nlaka’pamux people, live in these reserves. Regarding climate change and its disproportionate effect on Indigenous communities, Jennifer states that “these traditional lands and waters are feeding communities. And so, you know, now that in many respects in many parts of that area that is gone. Traditional hunting areas are gone. We already had struggling salmon populations up there.” CNN

MacMillan Fumehood Walkthrough

Please be aware that on July 14^th from 9am to noon there will be a group of contractors doing a walkthrough of MacMillan to take a look around lab spaces and fumehoods. There will be no shutdown and they will be accompanied by UBC personnel.

Sustainable Friday

Your sustainability tip of the week is

Recycling plastic? Make sure it’s clean or it could end up contaminating the other recyclables, making them unsuitable for use.
 

Do you have a sustainability tip to share with your colleagues? Send it to mcm-lst@lists.ubc.ca and lfs.today@ubc.ca! Tips can cover a range of settings, from lab work to your community to working from home. 

Job Posting: MFRE Program Coordinator Position

The MFRE Program Coordinator is responsible for developing and strengthening the academic courses, operations, and activities of the Master of Food and Resource Economics program within the Associate Dean Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Portfolio in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. The person in this role acts as the primary academic resource person to support students and instructors and enhances the student experience by contributing to program learning, activities, planning, and assessment. The closing date for this job posting is 11:59pm on Tuesday, July 20^th. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

Click here for more details

Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies and are available for most fields of research. The number of awards offered presently varies between three and five per year. 

Value: an annual stipend of $50,000 for a maximum of two years plus a travel and research allowance of $4,000 over two years.

The application and nomination process is briefly summarized below.  Refer to the Application Guide and Nomination Guide posted on our Killam webpage for complete details. 

UBC Vancouver (UBC-V)

• Each UBC Vancouver department or unit sets its own internal application deadline for receipt of applications (typically early to mid-October). Internal LFS application deadline is Friday, October 1, 2021 – late and incomplete applications cannot be accepted
• The Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies may submit 2 nominations – one each from Applied Animal Biology (AABI, PLNT, SOIL, ISLFS) and Food Science (FOOD, HUNU) to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies by November 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm. Rather than using UBC Workspace, a Qualtrics survey link is provided in the nomination form and nomination guide for nomination submission.
• UBC-V contact: killam.fellowships@ubc.ca

For complete application and nomination details, as well as detailed eligibility requirements, refer to our webpage.  Please visit: https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship.

Applications are to be sent electronically to shelley.small@ubc.ca

Call for Authors for the Canadian Mountain Assessment

The Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA) is currently seeking authors interested in contributing to this foundational effort to understand the state of knowledge of Canada’s rapidly changing mountains systems, guided by innovative conceptual and ethical frameworks for knowledge sharing. This first-of-its kind Assessment will include insights from both peer-reviewed literature and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountain systems, with individual Assessment chapter teams being balanced between Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. 
 
CMA authors should be recognized as 1. Established or emerging academic experts 2. First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledge holders or 3. non-academic specialists (e.g. mountain guides, tourism operators, writers) with expertise/knowledge relevant to Canadian mountain systems. The CMA provides a platform for connecting and mobilizing researchers, practitioners, and Indigenous Peoples with knowledge of mountains, and is therefore helping to catalyze a community of practice related to mountains in Canada. This high-impact project is expected to inform the mountain research and policy agenda in Canada for years to come.
 
Click here for more information and to submit a self-nominate form
 
Self-nominations will be accepted until July 9, 2021, but submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis for qualified applicants. Please circulate this call widely among your networks. For any questions, please contact CMA Project Assistant Madison Stevens at: madisonpstevens@gmail.com