LFS Today Oct 7, 2021
By imelda cheung on October 7, 2021
Learn About the Impact of Fish Farms: LFS Scholar Series – Today
Faculty, staff and graduate students are welcome to join LFS Scholar Series events, where experts in their field present the broad impacts of their research and engage the audience in discussion. The October speaker event is organized by Andrea Frommel from the Applied Animal Biology research program and the Graduate Program Office.
Invited Speaker: Bob Chamberlin, Kwikwasutinuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation & advocate for wild salmon
Title: Fish Farm Impacts – Too Complicated for Fulsome Media Reporting
Date and Time:
Thursday October 7, 2021
4-5 pm
Biography: Bob Chamberlin served as an elected chief Councillor for the Kwikwasutinuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation for 14 years, and a Vice President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs for 9 years. A well-known wild salmon advocate, he has participated in various federal & provincial initiatives examining the full spectrum of issues related to open net cage fish farms. Bob served as a key negotiator for the Broughtan Fish Farm LoU where the UNDRIP was successfully implemented for the first time in Canada’s history and participated as negotiator for 3 First Nations at the recent Discovery Island Fish Farm Consultations.
Location:
Earth Sciences Building, Room 2012
The session is available via livestream on Oct. 7 through this link:
https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9169753c-4424-45ed-8005-adb70127fec4
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Welcome, Nicole Adoranti, Embedded Counsellor
We are happy to welcome Nicole Adoranti, Canadian Certified Counsellor, to the Faculties of Land and Food Systems and Forestry as the newest addition to the UBC Counselling Services embedded counsellor community.
Nicole will be providing single session/short-term counselling, triage and referrals to students across both Faculties, while also promoting wellbeing through the development and delivery of wellness programming. Christine Klaray, Director, Student Services (LFS) and Chiara Longhi, Director, Student Services (Forestry) will share supervisory responsibility together with our UBC Counselling Services colleagues to support Nicole in executing shared and Faculty-specific initiatives.
Nicole holds a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology and has been a counsellor in both private practice and the post-secondary environment, having previously worked at the University of Toronto and New York University Abu Dhabi. Nicole’s experience in working with students from different cultures and backgrounds and her genuine interest in promoting student wellbeing will ensure students across both Faculties will be respected and heard.
We are excited to have her join us! Her first day will be Tuesday, October 12. Although she will hold office space in both Forest Sciences and UBC Counselling Services (Brock Hall), we trust you will see her around, so please feel free to introduce yourself virtually or in-person. Please contact Christine Klaray (christine.klaray@ubc.ca) with any questions.
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Lunch & Learn Series: Microsoft OneDrive
This session will be held on Friday, October 8, 2021 at noon. The discussion will be led by Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi from the LFS Learning Centre.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based personal document management solution. It’s one of many components of Microsoft’s Office 365 platform which also includes online applications such as Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote and Teams. With UBC’s OneDrive account, you get 1 Tb of cloud storage for your files and folders.
OneDrive is FIPPA-compliant and is the replacement for the UBC’s Workspace service. One of the features of OneDrive includes syncing between your cloud and computer: it will keep track of additions, changes or deletions in your local OneDrive folder with the OneDrive cloud storage and vice versa. In this session, we will go over OneDrive’s different features, setups for local sync folders, and how you can use it for your own file management.
Join us this Friday to discuss and learn more about incorporating OneDrive for your workflows and collaborations. To register for the Lunch & Learn series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1
Follow the LFS Learning Centre on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage.
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Teaching Theory Thursday
Students on Hybrid Testing
In-person and remote testing occur in very different testing environments. Test design is also very different for each modality. These differences contribute to unequal tests for in-person versus remote and are perceived as unfair comparisons by students.
In focus groups on hybrid teaching, students reported a strong preference that everyone take the test in the same modality, either all at home or all in-person (at testing centres if attending distanced from the university).
– from the Learning Centre Student Focus groups, 2021, https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/students-reflections-on-remote-learning/
Brought to you from the Learning Centre
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2021 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 12th 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.
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BC Dairy Industry Conference 2021 Registration is Open
November 24-25
Registration for the BC Dairy Industry Conference is now open! The BC Dairy Association and BC Milk Marketing Board are excited to welcome a limited number (300 total, including producers, industry, sponsors, etc.) of in-person guests to the remarkable JW Parq Hotel in Vancouver. All presentations will also be available to view online.
By order of the Provincial Health Officer (PHO), proof of vaccination is required to attend in-person. Attendees will be required to have proof of two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Information on the provincial policy, and the Proof of Vaccination card program, is available here.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Mark Taylor, CEO of Lactalis Canada
- Oscar Meuffels, General Manager of the Dutch Dairy Association
- Christophe Lafougere, Managing Director, Gira Consultancy & Research
Register here
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