LFS Today Mar 8, 2022

 News  

Beyond MFRE: A New Interview Series

Beyond MFRE is a series of interviews focusing on alumni and their life after our masters degree. From PhD candidates to managers in international companies, alumni share their stories across sectors and industries.

Check out this recent interview with Kat Jin, an alumna who excelled in her MFRE Graduating Project, a UBC Sustainability Scholar, and currently employed with Pinna Sustainability as a Sustainability Consultant.

Tech Tip Tuesday: Signing PDFs

Asked to sign a PDF but not sure how? Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Preview (on Mac) and other PDF reader apps lets you sign PDFs and embed digital signatures into a PDF. If you’ve received a PDF as an attachment in email or viewing a PDF on the web, Teams, or OneDrive, make sure to download the PDF before trying to sign it.

Some PDF documents have security settings that prevent you from adding electronic signatures. In this case, print such documents, sign it by hand, and the scan it or take of picture of the document and create a new PDF document.

For step-by-step instructions illustrating how to digitally sign PDFs visit https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/sign-pdf-documents-digitally/

 Events  

Mar. 10 – IRES Professional Development Seminar with Naomi Klein

In conversation with Dr. Naomi Klein about climate action and justice 
Dr. Naomi Klein will join the IRES community virtually for an interactive discussion about challenges and opportunities in addressing the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and inequity crises we face today. This seminar will start with a short, student-led interview with Dr. Klein. The interview may address themes such as: balancing the urgency for climate action with the need to engage in lengthy collaborative processes with affected communities, the respective roles of individual consumers versus corporations that respond to consumer demand in addressing climate change, and polarization and intolerance within activist spaces. This short interview will be followed by an extended audience Q & A and conversation period with Dr. Klein. We welcome your questions and comments for Dr. Klein and the IRES community.

Thursday, March 10
12:30 – 1:30pm
AERL Room 107
or via Zoom

Mar. 11 – SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series

Harini Aiyer
Legacy effects of cover crop rotation on associated soil microbiomes

Friday, March 11, 3pm
To join the list-serve and receive seminar info, contact Sandra.Brown@ubc.ca

More info: bit.ly/soil500

Mar. 11 – IOF Seminar: Extreme Weather 2021: A Snapshot of BC’s Future?

It started with a deadly heat dome that settled over the Pacific Northwest back in June 2021. That was followed by a devastating wildfire season, and that was followed by one of the worst flood disasters this province has ever seen.

Johanna Wagstaffe will take you through these unprecedented events, and what that may mean for our future from the perspective of a meteorologist and newsroom scientist.

Friday, March 11
11am – 12pm
RSVP here

 Deadlines  

Mar. 11 – UBC Farm Undergraduate Research Competition 2022

The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm Undergraduate Research Competition provides financial support for innovative, undergraduate-led research projects at the UBC Farm. In 2022, $6000 of total funding is available, while individual projects can apply for a maximum of $3000 in funding. Students need to identify a primary supervisor (UBC graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or faculty member). Undergrads from any UBC Faculty are eligible.

Find out more and apply here: https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/ubc-farm-undergraduate-research-competition/

Deadline to apply: March 11, 2022.