Craft your own unique greeting cards this season while uncovering the art and science of traditional paper-making and the latest in bio-based materials to enhance paper characteristics! Engage in this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop, where you'll transform pulp slurry into paper at our iconic paper-making lab housed in the famous Pulp & Paper Centre, a hub […]
Craft your own unique greeting cards this season while uncovering the art and science of traditional paper-making and the latest in bio-based materials to enhance paper characteristics! Engage in this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop, where you'll transform pulp slurry into paper at our iconic paper-making lab housed in the famous Pulp & Paper Centre, a hub […]
Speaker: Dr. Anna McLaskey, Research Associate, IOF Pelagic Ecosystems Lab Nutritional quality of prey influences consumer communities including their nutritional quality, so shifts in nutrition at the food web base can be transferred up the food chain to affect fish, seabirds, and mammals. Zooplankton are the main link between primary producers and higher trophic levels, […]
Grapes to Glass is a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series. You will use your senses as you learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Instructor Jay Martiniuk is a UBC Lecturer in Wine Science and Fermentation, who has worked […]
Alternatives to fossil fuels are needed and innovations in wind, solar and other renewable energies are progressing. However, the question of storage remains a challenge. Join UBC researchers Robert Godin (Chemistry) and Werner Antweiler (Business) in a discussion around the question of energy storage.
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Branch Professor, University of Washington Blue whales are truly enormous yet remain enigmatic and poorly understood, with most populations only studied for a few summer months every year, and mating and calving never observed. As a result, classical theories for their migration and behavior have relied heavily on analogies with better-studied species […]