Ashli Akins wins Emerging Humanist of the Year Award
Ashli was honoured by her alma mater, the University of Victoria, for this prestigious award. The parallel Public and Historic Humanist Awards went to the Honorable Roméo Dallaire and the late writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Cam Bullen wins an NSERC CGSM
Cam was awarded an NSERC Master’s Scholarship for his work on the potential ecological effects of rewilding Steller’s sea cows.
Kai & others launch People and Nature
As a lead editor (with Kevin Gaston EIC, Emilie Aimé as Managing Editor), Kai helped launch People and Nature, a new open-access journal from the British Ecological Society. Practice-oriented, deeply interdisciplinary, rigorous, boundary-crossing and envelope-pushing–see the opening editorial.
Kai is listed among the Highly Cited Researchers of 2018
Kai was one of Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers 2018, a list that “recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.”
Marc Tadaki defends his PhD
Marc Tadaki successfully defended his PhD in Geography entitled, “Filling the Void: Struggles over Implementing Freshwater Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand”, co-supervised by Trevor Barnes and Kai Chan. Congratulations, Marc!
Cameron Bullen wins two UBC Spring Graduate Awards
Cam Bullen was awarded the James Robert Thompson Fellowship and the R.E. McKechnie Graduate Scholarship. Congrats, Cam!
Cameron Bullen and Aspen Ono join CHANS Lab
Cam will be doing a MSc, cosupervised by Ed Gregr. Aspen will be doing a MA, co-supervised by David Boyd. Welcome, Cam and Aspen!
Ashli Akins is 1 of 3 finalists for the SSHRC Talent Award
Winners will be announced in Ottawa October 3. Congrats for making it this far, Ashli!
Emily Anderson defends her PhD
Emily defended her PhD entitled, ““Market” Participation for Development and Environmental Sustainability: Costa Rican Dairy Markets and Payments for Ecosystem Services”, co-supervised by Hisham Zerriffi and Kai. Congratulations, Emily!
Adrian Semmelink defends his MSc
Adrian defended his MSc thesis entitled, “Gaps between farmer and government officials views of best management practices: cracks or canyons?” Congrats, Adrian!