LFS Today Nov 8, 2021

 News  

LFS Virtual Townhall – recording

For faculty and staff who missed last Friday’s Townhall, a video recording is available to view on the Intranet. This includes the MITACS presentation from Marcelo Mora. The page is CWL-password protected, so a login is required.

To view the Friday, Nov. 5 LFS Virtual Townhall – click here.

LFS in the News

Former Director of UBC’s Wine Research Centre, Hennie van Vuuren and Simon Castellarin were featured in an article about UBC’s Wine Library. Montecristo Magazine

 Events  

Nov. 9 – “Migration and Pandemics” with Dr. Chinmay Tumbe

Tuesday, November 9
6:00pm PST

The UBC Centre for Migration Studies is pleased to invite you to a virtual talk by Dr. Chinmay Tumbe on “Migration and Pandemics” as part of their 2021-22 Speaker Series. This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and the UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research.

Lecture Abstract:
The migration crisis of 2020 unleashed by the lockdown to contain the Covid-19 crisis in India raised important questions about migration and health. This talk revolves around two books, one on migration and the other on pandemics, both written from a historical perspective. It engages with questions such as: What is the geography and history of migration in India? How did we forget past pandemics in India that claimed 40 million lives between 1817 and 1920 due to cholera, plague, and influenza? And how does such knowledge inform contemporary policymaking with respect to migration and pandemic management?

Learn more and register here.

Nov. 18 – IRES Student Seminar with Yeonuk Kim and Helina Jolly

Thursday, November 18
12:30 – 1:30pm
Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall

Dry regions get drier and wet regions get wetter as the world gets warmer: Evidence from US watersheds

Abstract:
As warmer air can hold more water vapour, anthropogenic global warming increases atmospheric demand for water that has been intensifying the global water cycle. A scaling so-called “dry get drier, wet get wetter” (DGDWGW) well explains observational changes of the water balance over the ocean, but this scaling does not always hold over the land. Unlike evaporation from the ocean, terrestrial evaporation is controlled by not only atmospheric demand but also soil moisture, which complicates changes in the land water balance. To unravel this issue, this study reframes the land water balance by attributing changes in evaporation to changes in atmospheric demand and soil moisture. We applied our new framework to 346 US watersheds. Our results support the DGDWGW trend with one critical implication: a little decrease in streamflow in dry regions accompanies the cost of deteriorating agricultural/ecological drought.

Learn more here

Nov. 22 – Mobilizing Knowledge in Ontario’s Agri-Food Sector and Rural Communities

Monday, November 22
1:30 – 4:00pm

An Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance (a collaboration between OMAFRA and U of G) KTT Knowledge Exchange Event

Profiling Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance-funded Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) projects and building capacity around new and innovative KTT approaches and best practices, with the goal of getting research into use.

Learn more and register here.

Nov. 25 – Reconciliation + Design Dialogue Series 2

Please join us for the next dialogue in the series: Indigenous ways of knowing, and being
More information about the series and Registration for Dialogue 2:

This reconciliation + design dialogue series is co-designed and led by UBC Civil Engineering Assistant Professor of Teaching Pam Wolf and Civil Engineering graduate student Danilo Caron.

The reconciliation + design series is supported by Applied Science Dean James Olson, and Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Dr. Sheryl Staub-French. Participants include UBC Applied Science students from the faculties of Engineering, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and School of Community and Regional Planning, as well as external guests.

These dialogues are a scaled Indigenization complement to decolonization curriculum. Applied science invites anyone who reflects on reconciling their design processes to join the conversation. This is an interdisciplinary conversation on reconciliation and design.

The speakers are Indigenous change-makers. We amplify their voices and listen to understand. Students and faculty practice authentic, experiential learning in dialogue circles, learning to weave together these Indigenous perspectives, ways of knowing, and ways of being, with our own as designers.

The breakout room facilitators are students. They will be practicing their skills leading dialogue circles.
The annual cycle of four topics spoken to by Indigenous leaders and elders is listed below.

1) Truth
Took place on October 14, 2021: Watch the full session here:
Reconciliation & Design: Truth – Dialogue 1 Recording
Speaker: Danilo Caron

2) Indigenous ways of knowing, and being
(November 25, 2021 @ 4:30 PM)
Speaker: Elder Albert Marshall
REGISTER NOW

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 680 3952 9056
Passcode: 074574

3) Synthesis
(February 10, 2022 @ 4:30 PM)

4) Community Values and Goals in Technical Specifications
(March 17, 2022 @ 4:30 PM)

History
In 2019, the Civil Engineering student club, student Danilo Caron, and faculty member Pamela Wolf initiated a series of dialogues with Indigenous perspectives on infrastructure design. In 2021, pandemic moved everything online, and these events grew. The Applied Science Dean’s office generously supports the larger scale of these dialogues, for which we are grateful.

Please direct any logistics questions to edii@apsc.ubc.ca; questions about the content can be directed to danilo.caron@ubc.ca or pamela.wolf@ubc.ca the co-designers and leaders of the series.
Thank you,

EDII Team
https://apsc.ubc.ca/EDI

 Deadlines  

Nov. 12 – UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition

UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition (2021-22) is now open. Proposals are invited from UBC Faculty & Staff to co-develop innovative, impactful and collaborative ‘living lab’ projects on campus. The competition closes on November 12, 2021.

This program offers Faculty & Staff a unique opportunity to incubate, test and demonstrate innovative research ideas in a real-world setting, embedded on campus lands or within its communities. The competition will provide funds up to $50,000 per project. Proposals are invited from across academic disciplines and operational Units at UBC.

CLL projects must embody the essence of a ‘living lab’; in that they must be centered on the on-campus demonstration of innovation. This definition covers a broad spectrum, including innovative programs, platforms, technologies, products, research methods, etc. CLL projects must demonstrate measurable impact on one of four priority areas – Climate Action, Resilient Systems, Sustainable Places & Communities, or Health & Wellbeing. The project period is April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

For more information, please visit CLL Fund Competition (ubc.ca) or email us at CLL.Team@ubc.ca.

Nov. 12 – Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize Competition

As part of UBC’s ongoing efforts to increase the benefits for Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs), the Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO) is pleased to announce the 2021 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, an opportunity to recognize and reward UBC’s postdocs. The Killam PDF Research Prize is funded by the generous donation of Izaak Walton Killam and his wife, Dorothy Johnston Killam, who together created the Killam trusts. This initiative clearly demonstrates UBC’s recognition of the critical role played by PDFs in advancing the quality and excellence of our research.

The LFS internal deadline for complete applications, including all necessary supporting documentation is  Friday, November 12^th at 4:00 PM.  Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. Please submit applications/supporting documentation to lfs.gradasst@ubc.ca

The Nomination Guidelines, Nomination Form, and evaluation guidelines can be found on the PDFO website: https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-fellow-research-prize

The Killam PDF Prize will be administered through the PDFO. Deans, nominators and nominees will be apprised of the status of their nominations by April 1, 2022.