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  • Slow Fashion Season

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    Slow Fashion Season, Jan 1 – Mar 27 | Fast fashion, textile waste, and unsustainable clothing consumption are global environmental problems. Can we make a difference, here and now, in the […]

  • Black Excellence in STEM: Microbiome of ‘Success’: Cultivating Resilience from Roots to Ecosystems by Dr. Zelalem Taye

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    Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building (CEME) 6250 Applied Science Lane, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Dr. Taye leads an interdisciplinary research group studying agricultural, forest, and urban ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystem productivity, sustainability, and resilience under global change. His team collaborates closely with experts in soil science, plant science, plant pathology, plant breeding, computer science, and statistics, among other fields. Their work combines wet-lab and field research with […]

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  • Assessing policy implementation: a case study of global trade in marine fishes

    Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Speaker: Dr. Sarah Foster, Project Seahorse Project Seahorse has developed a novel scheme for analysing policy implementation across four Levels: technical outputs (tools and capacity building); policy outcomes (governance changes); field outcomes (practical changes on vessels and at docks, traders’ facilities, Customs sheds, courts, etc); and population impacts (biological changes in wild populations). They apply this […]

  • Archaeological investigations and ecological modelling into pre-contact (1792 CE) Tsleil-Waututh stewardship of Burrard Inlet, BC, Canada

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    Speaker: Dr. Meaghan Efford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Modelling past ecosystem baselines and ecosystem change over time can demonstrate the cumulative effects of anthropogenic impacts to ecosystems over seasons to millennia. This project established a new method for modelling in Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE), drawing on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), archaeology, […]

  • Slippage: Shaped by Time – Special talk with Michael Cox and Sam Shekut

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    Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    On Saturday, March 7 at 1:00 pm, photographer Michael Cox joins UBC Geology graduate student Sam Shekut in the museum auditorium for a conversation on erosion, biodiversity, and landscape photography. In the exhibition Slippage: Shaped by Time, Cox captures the slow and powerful forces of erosion and change through striking black-and-white photographs of local landscapes. […]

  • The Climate Brink: On the Brink of Disaster and the Brink of Salvation

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    Buchanan A | Room 104 Option for livestream (follow event link) While the physics of climate change is well-established, the complexity of its impact on human systems remains our greatest uncertainty. We are now witnessing climate impacts that are profoundly non-linear, with the potential for rapid acceleration in the coming decades. However, this trajectory is […]