LFS Today Nov 24, 2020
By imelda cheung on November 24, 2020
LFS Instructors Named UBC Open Education Resource Champions
Associate Professor Maja Krzic and Sessional Lecturer Matthew Mitchell were named UBC Open Education Resource Champions for 2020.
Dr. Krzic is a co-editor of an open access E-textbook under development for Introduction to Soil Science, a course taken by 300 students annually at UBC alone. Currently textbooks written for the USA are commonly used. Maja and her co-editor are leading a team of 41 authors from across Canada in writing chapters. In addition to funding from the Canadian Society of Soil Science, Dr. Krzic secured funding from BCcampus. Currently there is no Canadian-based textbook that provides an introduction to soil science; and this initiative is an OER available to instructors or students without cost, and with an open license allowing for reuse, revision, and redistribution.
Dr. Mitchell ensures that the extensive course materials in LFS 250 are all free and accessible to students, and deploys a range of media to engage students, including virtual tours of the UBC and BC dairy farms.
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ReachOut – Fall 2020
Thanks to everyone who participated in this fall’s alumni magazine. It’s now online, and it has been distributed to 10,000+ LFS alumni via email or post. Our cover this time features Sean Smukler in a story called Building a Resilient Food System Starts with the Soil. Other stories include how UBC and LFS moved online due to COVID-19, alumni Harold Steves who is set to retire from civic politics, and our newest faculty members – Risa Sargent, Thorsten Knipfer and Lindsay Cuff. Read more: https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/reachout/
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Assistant Professor (Indigenous Scholar) in Land and Food Systems – Interviews
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
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Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond: Webinar Series
Join the next edition of the Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond webinar series:
Reclaiming Food Sovereignty in Africa post-COVID-19
Friday November 27, 9:00 – 10:30am PST
In this panel, speakers will discuss the status of food sovereignty in Africa prior to and emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, as local communities seek to reclaim and rebuild their food systems following border closures and critical levels of food insecurity. Speakers will discuss topics related to valuing and strengthening Indigenous food systems, improving food and nutritional security, and seed sovereignty. Sponsored by CSFS and the Liu Institute Network for Africa.
Learn more and register here.
This series is presented by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS), the BC Food Web and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS).
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SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series
Date: Friday, November 27, 3:00pm
Title: The effect of cuticular waxes on transpirational water loss in different blueberry varieties.
Speaker: Yifan Yan, PhD student (supervisor Simone Castellarin)
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.
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