Career Paths in Conservation: Dr. Anil Shrestha’s Story  

Monday, May 12, 2025 Speaker(s): Dr. Anil Shrestha 12:00 -1:00 pm, Location TBD Discover the fascinating research of Dr. Anil Shrestha (Department of Forest Resources Management), whose work focuses on Ecosystems and Climate Change, Education and Pedagogy in Forestry and in Sustainable Forest Management. Learn about his journey and connect with this inspiring faculty member. Plus, […]

Career Paths in Conservation: Dr. Cole Burton’s Story  

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Speaker(s): Dr. Cole Burton 3:30- 4:30 pm, Location TBD Discover the fascinating research of Dr. Cole Burton (Department of Forest Resources Management), whose work focuses on conservation science and human-wildlife coexistence. Learn about his journey and connect with this inspiring faculty member. Plus, enjoy some free snacks! 

Career Paths in Conservation: Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian’s Journey to Indigenous Conservation with the ISAAK OLAM Foundation 

Monday, December 9, 2024 Speaker(s): Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian 12:00-1:00PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Meet and connect with Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian, Director of Education and International Relations of the IISAAK OLAM foundation, an organization focused on empowering Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada. Learn about her path, and how ISAAK […]

Managing Stress and Building Resilience (Mélissa Lafrance and Vanessa Linton, UBC Wellness Centre) 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Speaker(s): UBC Wellness Centre 3:30-4:30PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Is academia feeling overwhelming? Prioritize your well-being at UBC and beyond with our wellness workshop. Learn about the resources available to support your mental health and discover strategies for managing stress and building resilience in the demanding […]

Career Paths in Conservation: Prof. Matthew Mitchell’s Path Towards Interdisciplinary Ecological Research (Faculty of Forestry and Land and Food Systems) 

Monday, November 4, 2024 Speaker(s): Dr. Matthew Mitchell 12:00-1:00PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Discover the fascinating research of Dr. Matthew Mitchell (Department of Forest Resources Management in the Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Land and Food Systems), whose work focuses on the how to manage human-dominated landscapes, for both people […]

Creating a Compelling Grant Proposal:  Advice for Success (Prof. Mark Johnson, Faculty of Science, IRES/ EOAS) 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Speaker(s): Dr. Mark Johnson 3:30-4:30PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Does writing a research proposal feel daunting? Unlock funding opportunities by learning how to write a compelling grant proposal. In this seminar, Dr. Mark Johnson (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric and Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability) […]

Research Blitz: Grad Students Share Their Research on Biodiversity Conservation, Restoration, Management and Governance

Oct. 21, 2024 Speaker(s): Graduate Students 12:00-1:00PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Curious about what other grad students are researching? Join us for speed presentations, where you’ll get a glimpse of the diversity of topics in biodiversity conservation and interdisciplinary solutions. Connect with peers and expand your academic network. Plus, enjoy […]

Dr. Lucas Garibaldi: Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes: Enhancing Yields and Sustainability through Ecological Intensification

Co-Sponsored by: Institute for Environment, Resources and Sustainability September 12, 2024, 12:30-1:20PM Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) This talk will explore the role of landscape configuration and ecological intensification in optimizing agricultural productivity and sustainability, drawing insights from recent studies across Argentina’s agricultural regions. Key findings demonstrate that smaller fields, increased […]

Your Future, Your Plan: Crafting an Individualized Development Plan  

Sept. 23, 2024 Speaker(s): IBioS Program Coordinator Dr. Conny Scheffler, IBioS Graduate Student Ambassador Tatiana Chamorro 12:00-1:00 PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Are you feeling overwhelmed with graduate school? Struggling to plan your future? Our seminar guides you through starting an Individualized Development Plan (IDP), a tool to help you […]

What I Wish I Knew: Professors Share Grad School Lessons 

Sept. 17, 2024 Speaker(s): Dr. Naomi Schwartz, Dr. Alex Moore 3:30-4:30PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Ever wondered what professors wish they’d known before starting grad school? Join our panel with Dr. Naomi Schwartz (Department of Geography) and Dr. Alex Moore (Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences and Botany), to hear their […]

A systematic literature review of climate change research on Europe’s threatened commercial fish species

“Climate change poses a major challenge for global marine ecosystems and species, leading to a wide range of biological and social-ecological impacts. Fisheries are among the well-known sectors influenced by multiple effects of climate change, with associated impacts highly variable among species and regions. To successfully manage fisheries, scientific evidence about the potential direct and indirect impacts of […]

Equity and Justice should underpin the discourse on Tipping Points

“Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability have winners and losers, with equity and justice embedded to a greater or a lesser extent. According to research, only the wealthiest 1-4% of the global population will radically need to change their consumption, behaviours, societal values and beliefs in order to make space for an equitable and sustainable […]

Spatializing oil and gas subsidies in endangered caribou habitat: Identifying political-economic drivers of defaunation

“Reforming environmentally harmful subsidies is an international priority under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Research that links industrial subsidies to negative ecological impacts, however, is limited. This paper contributes to the emerging agenda of global “subsidy accountability” research by linking oil and gas subsidies to the decline of endangered caribou herds in British Columbia, […]

Community Forests advance local wildfire governance and proactive management in British Columbia, Canada

As wildfires are increasingly causing negative impacts to communities and their livelihoods, many communities are demanding more proactive and locally driven approaches to address wildfire risk. This marks a shift away from centralized governance models where decision-making is concentrated in government agencies that prioritize reactive wildfire suppression. In British Columbia (BC), Canada, Community Forests – […]

Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858–2020

“Many landscapes are constrained into pathways featuring deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and rising mega-disturbances due to legacies and feedbacks preserved in ecosystems and institutions. Institutions are the norms and rules that emerge locally or are set by prevailing powers, and that mediate coupled social-ecological dynamics.” Read more in the article by IBioS faculty member Dr. […]

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

“The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets.” Read more in the article by IBioS faculty […]

The benefits of climate change mitigation to retaining rainbow trout habitat in British Columbia, Canada

“Climate change is increasing stream temperatures and thereby changing habitat suitability for a variety of freshwater fishes. We investigate how suitable stream habitat for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), a valuable cold-water species, may change in British Columbia, Canada, currently near the north end of their range. We examine a no-mitigation climate change scenario (RCP 8.5), […]

Combating the unsustainable exotic pet trade: Effects of conservation messaging on attitudes, demands, and civic intentions

The exotic pet trade poses a major threat to biodiversity conservation. To combat biodiversity loss, it is essential to reduce demand for exotic pets and engage people in civic actions for wildlife conservation. Although messaging has been extensively used in conservation practice, little is known about how it can influence attitudes and various types of […]

Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate-driven range shifts

Climate change is causing geographic range shifts globally, and understanding the factors that influence species’ range expansions is crucial for predicting future changes in biodiversity. A common, yet untested, assumption in forecasting approaches is that species will shift beyond current range edges into new habitats as they become macroclimatically suitable, even though microhabitat variability could […]

Global change at nexus of climate change, biodiversity and disease

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and disease emergence are the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. While the pairwise interactions between climate, biodiversity and disease are well documented, we lack a framework that integrates all three and that recognizes the powerful positive and negative feedbacks between them. This symposium will illustrate the recent findings on […]