LFS Today Nov 20, 2020 | LFS Intranet 2020

Learning Centre Support for Term 2 Courses

Are you an instructor teaching in Term 2?

Are you thinking of trying something new with your online course? Do you feel that you are not fully leveraging the technology available to you? Do you need someone to bounce ideas off? Do you need help with designing your course? All instructors teaching in Term 2 are invited to contact the LFS Learning Centre to discuss your plans for online teaching in Term 2. Avoid the rush in January. Contact us today! it@landfood.ubc.ca.

Workday Vacation Balances

Here’s how to understand your vacation balance and make adjustments in Workday. All employees should:

Review their vacation balances to confirm they have the correct number of vacation days remaining for 2020
Re-enter planned vacation for November 16 – December 31, 2020 into Workday

If adjustments are required, employees should work with their managers and LFS HR to correct.

Knowledge Base articles: Understanding your vacation balance in Workday [NEW!]

SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series – Today

Date: Friday, November 20, 3:00pm
Title: Effects of elevated carbon dioxide in plant-insect interactions at multi-trophic levels
Speaker: Jimmy Ha, PhD student (supervisor Juli Carrillo)
Abstract & bio available here.

If you have registered previously for one of our seminars, you do not need to register again – the weekly zoom link is the same.
If you need registration information, please email sandra.brown@ubc.ca.

Upgrade AMP for Mac endpoints – Big Sur compatibility issue

There is a new update for Cisco AMP (Advanced Malware Protection) for Mac OS ‘Big Sur’, which will be applied automatically in the background. After this update is applied, you should check that the AMP application still has access to your computer’s System Extension and has Full Disk access.

These documents will show you how to do this.

Check System Extension:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/amp-endpoints/216089-advisory-for-amp-for-endpoints-mac-conne.html#anc3

Check Full Disk Access:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/amp-endpoints/216089-advisory-for-amp-for-endpoints-mac-conne.html#anc6

Contact the LFS Learning Centre, it@landfood.ubc.ca, if you have any questions or would like assistance with this procedure.

COVID-19 and Contact Tracing

There have been a lot of questions around how contact tracing works. To provide clarity, the SRS site has posted some FAQ that will hopefully answer many of the overarching questions.

Assistant Professor (Indigenous Scholar) in Land and Food Systems

We will be interviewing three candidates for the position of Assistant Professor (Indigenous Scholar) in Land and Food Systems, starting November 24. All interviews will be done online. We have now included Zoom links to each of the seminars (below). Registration is required, so please click on the links in advance to register, and you will receive a confirmation email with info about joining the meeting, and an option to add it to your calendars. We very much hope that you will be able to attend and to provide feedback to the selection committee. Also, if you’d like to meet with any of these candidates (virtually) during their interview please contact Melanie Train (melanie.train@ubc.ca) to set up a time. A copy of the advertisement is included here.

Tabitha Martens is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Manitoba, with a research agenda that focuses on Inninnew (Cree) Elders, traditional foods, ceremony and implications for Indigenous food sovereignty, especially the intersections between these topics.

Research Seminar: Hunger on the prairies: From starvation to contemporary food insecurity in Indigenous communities
November 24, 1:00-2:30pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EoceirqT0tGtd9DLKehaDRSyPCqXw9VgNT

Teaching Seminar: Meechim (one lesson in a class called Evaluating Indigenous food system interventions)
November 25, 1:00-2:15pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mtfu-oqj8jHte7F4ljy7QHjgFxNbppBt7-

Hughie Jones received a PhD in Soil Science in LFS in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Andy Black. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in IRES (Ecohydrology Group) at UBC, where he uses soil, plant, water and meteorological techniques to understand the impact of climate change and land/resource management on the sustainability of agricultural and aquatic ecosystems.

Research Seminar: The need to eat and the water we drink: agriculture’s impact on energy, greenhouse gas and water balances
November 26, 1:00-2:30pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ivc-CtqzMsHtNlOowIAecVT4qGDk6Db9F2

Teaching Seminar: Soil moisture: theory, measurement and applications
November 27, 1:00-2:15pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5IpcuGopjIiEtwHIfzHwDBz_DilpME2LT0z

Jennifer Grenz completed her PhD in Integrated Studies in LFS in October 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Carol McAusland. She is currently a Sessional Lecturer in our Faculty. Her expertise incorporates (but is not limited to) food security and sovereignty, plant science and sustainable agriculture, and includes scholarly approaches to the intersection of food systems and indigenous issues.

Research Seminar: It’s Time for the Academic Time of the Eagle
December 3, 1:00-2:30pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Urc–vqT4uGNaNlL7-P-dF3Mn2XBYUrQBu

Teaching Seminar: Reclaiming an Indigenous Ecology
December 4, 1:00-2:15pm
Register in advance:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UrdO-gqTkpEta5V9Nz2ZR7H4Nx9h7pmjkj