LFS Today Oct 9, 2020

Monday is Thanksgiving

Don’t forget that Monday is a statutory holiday – enjoy the long weekend!

LFS Macmillan Studio & Video Innovation Lab

The LFS LC is happy to announce that the LFS Macmillan Studio & Video Innovation Lab is open for production. The studio is your spot to make higher quality video, prepare pre-recorded content, try new techniques and work with Learning Centre staff.  We are now open for limited (Covid restrictions) pre-booked appointments. Come explore: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/lfs-macmillan-studio-video-innovation-lab/

Preparing for Workday Go-live: Upcoming Finance Cutover Dates

• Oct 9: This is the last day to submit fully approved e-Procurement request for PO/Change order; also it’s the last day to submit approved PO invoice for payment.
• Oct 14: This is the last day to submit complete and approved Q-requisition and Travel requisition.
• Oct 16: This is the last day to create OPT expense claim and OPT third party invoice payment.
• Oct 22: This is the last day to approve OPT expense claim and OPT third party invoice payment.

Please ensure all requisitions and claims are submitted on a timely manner to allow for processing in October ahead of go-live. Should you have any questions please contact lfs.finance@ubc.ca.

SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series

Date: Friday, October 9, 3:00pm
Title: AAFC Soil Organic Matter Research in New Brunswick: Overview of the Soil Carbon Team Research Program
Speaker: Louis-Pierre Comeau, AAFC Fredericton Research and Development Centre
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.

Canada Research Continuity Fund (CRCEF) Stage 3

The Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund (CRCEF) is a Tri-Agency program that is part of the Government of Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan.  UBC is now undertaking an open call for applications for Stage 3 funding from CRCEF to support research maintenance and ramp-up costs incurred due to COVID-19.

Applications for Stage 3 CRCEF funding can be submitted by faculty members who hold research accounts for impacted projects at UBC and affiliated health research institutions.
Stage 3 of this program is to support direct costs of research that have been incurred to:

1. maintain essential research-related commitments during the COVID-19 pandemic; and/or
2. ramp-up to full research activities as physical distancing measures are eased and research activities can resume.

Applicants must complete an application form and submit it using the online portal below, Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm on October 30, 2020.
 
Please visit UBC CRCEF webpage for more information.

Subject Matter Experts needed for Ecosphere – Agroecosystems

The ESA journal Ecosphere is soliciting applications to their editorial board as a Subject Matter Editor in our newly formed Agroecosystems track. As a Subject Matter Editor, you would be responsible for assigning manuscripts to reviewers and then making decisions on those manuscripts after the reviews have been received. You would be asked to handle approximately six manuscripts per year. You would also have the opportunity to participate in Editorial Board meetings to help us shape the future of the journal. Post-doctoral scholars are welcome as Subject Matter Editors as long as they have a record of previous publication and peer-review experience.

The Agroecosystems track includes interdisciplinary research into the interface between agriculture and ecology. Of particular interest are intersections of the four pillars of agriculture (production, transportation, nutrition, security) with ecological systems. Agroecosystems include managed forests, plantations and orchards, pastures, rangelands, and croplands, and the organisms living in them (cultivated and otherwise).

Ecosphere is now the largest ESA journal based on the number of published papers each year. As the online only, open access journal of the ESA, we continue to grow in the number and diversity of submitted manuscripts. Our unique organization of âÂ?ÂotracksâÂ? allows us to continue to respond to the needs of the ecological community by providing a publication outlet at the interface with other disciplines, such as the Emerging Technologies Track with computer science, Macrosystems track with Big Data, and our newest track, the Critical Zone Ecosystems with geosciences. We will continue to add new tracks as long as author demand is there.

If you are interested, please send your CV and research keywords to sunshinevanbael@gmail.com. Questions can be addressed to the same email address.