Ale, Sarah, Ally and Kai raised $745 for Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society as part of The Big Wild Challenge trail race in North Vancouver. The rain and mud made the hot drinks and kale chips (!) at the finish line that much more appreciated.
‘Life Off Grid’ now available on Video On Demand
Jonathan Taggart’s ethnographic film about how and why some Canadians choose to live ‘off the grid’ is now available to the public through Video On Demand. You can watch it here.
Welcome Danny Karp, new Killam Postdoc!
CHANS lab welcomes Danny Karp, from Stanford and UC Berkeley, who will be joining the FuturAgua project.
John Driscoll was awarded a UBC Four-Year Fellowship
John Driscoll was awarded a UBC Four-Year Fellowship for his ongoing RMES PhD degree. Congratulations, John!
Alejandra Echeverri defends her MSc, wins a Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship for her PhD
Alejandra Echeverri defended her MSc and was awarded a Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship for her RMES PhD degree (supplanting her UBC 4-Year Fellowship), starting Sept 2015 in CHANS Lab. Congrats and welcome, Ale!
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.