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.
John Driscoll wins Les Lavkulich Graduate Student Fellowship
The Les Lavkulich Awards have been endowed by colleagues, friends and UBC alumni in honour of Professor Les Lavkulich, who created the Resources and Environment Program in 1979, the first truly interdisciplinary graduate program at UBC. As the program’s inspirational leader between 1979 and 2004, he was able, with his unrelenting effort and visionary thinking, […]
Healthy oceans, economies and communities
Kai Chan and Sarah Klain spoke on why thriving marine ecosystems matter for British Columbia as part of a webinar with economists Michelle Molnar and Ngaio Hotte. Here’s a link to the audio and visual recording of their talks on market and non-market benefits from the ocean, the contribution of particular industries to BC’s economy, social and […]
Kai’s webinar for Yale University Centre for Business and the Environment is online
Kai Chan presented his research on building frameworks to conceptualize ecosystem services in a webinar for the Yale University Centre for Business and the Environment, emphasizing cultural ecosystem services to highlight importance of supporting ecosystem services to catalyze sustainability. The YouTube video is here.