Adrian Semmelink wins an NSERC CGS-M
Adrian Semmelink was awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship for his RMES MSc degree, starting Sept 2015 in CHANS Lab. Congrats and welcome, Adrian!
Jonathan Taggart is awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship
Jonathan Taggart was awarded a prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his doctoral studies. Kudos, Jon!
Nathan Bennett named as a 2015-2016 Fullbright Scholar
Congratulations to Nathan Bennett for being named a 2015-2016 Fulbright Canada Canadian Scholar. Nathan’s Fullbright project is entitled ‘From Baja to Bering and All States in Between: The Effectiveness of Regional and Transboundary Marine Conservation Initiatives in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico’. View the full list of 2015-2016 Fullbright recipients here.
Marc Tadaki and others publish on the politics of bounding and measuring ecosystem services.
Marc, Will Allen, and Jim Sinner published a new article in Ecological Economics in which they discuss how ecosystem services concepts do political ‘work’ by constraining the kinds of processes considered and encouraging certain kinds of measurements over others. Read the article here.
Sarah, Paige and Jonathan receive awards from the UBC Public Scholar Initiative
Congratulations to Sarah Klain, Paige Olmstead and Jonathan Taggart on receiving awards from UBC’s new Public Scholars Initiative (PSI). PSI supports mutually beneficial partnerships of university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to contribute to the public good through – read more about PSI here.
Vancouver Sun Op-ed re: proposed National Park in the Okanagan
Maayan and Kai publish an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun, “Separating Fact from Fiction in the Okanagan”, regarding the proposed South Okanagan-Similkameen National Park. Popular myth says that most locals oppose the park, suggesting that the park is an example of governments imposing themselves on downtrodden locals. Facts suggest otherwise (url).
Bees Won’t Survive … Unless We Do This
Susanna Klassen, Kelly Sharp, Jill Guerra, Scott McKenzie and Kai Chan published an Opinion piece in the National Observer entitled, “Bees won’t survive, and neither will we, unless we do this” [NB: Authors don’t choose newspaper article titles.] June 15 2015. url
Kai Chan selected as delegate to World Science Forum
Kai has been selected as one of four young Canadian delegates to the InterAcademy Partnership’s 2015 World Science Forum. The Forum will focus on “Scoping the future: views and ideas of young scientists to tackle global challenges” and will take place in Budapest, Hungary in November 2015.
Bennett 2015 Conservation Biology: Governing Marine Protected Areas in an Interconnected and Changing World
Bennett, N. J. (2015). Governing Marine Protected Areas in an Interconnected and Changing World. Conservation Biology [OPEN ACCESS]
Bennett, Govan & Satterfield 2015 Marine Policy: Ocean Grabbing
Bennett, N. J., Govan, H., & Satterfield, T. (2015). Ocean grabbing. Marine Policy, 57, 61–68. [OPEN ACCESS]