Story telling and systems thinking from Vancouver area. Post-doc at SFU: Cumulative effects forestry, ecosystem services, energy planning. RPF, ISA.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined June 2011
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Transdisciplinary and transformative fire research: four principles from Early Career Researchers in British Columbia 🇨🇦 @kcopesgerbitz @ira_sutherland @sdicksonhoyle @TahiaDevisscher
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ALT Diagrams in colour comparing traditional and transdisciplinary research frameworks
Strong Winds & Windowmakers: a Labour history of Pacific Northwest Foresty.
Check out this talk from Steven Beda (Oregon State) Oct 15 (and others) hosted by the BC Forest History Association fhabc.org/2024/10/07/speaker…
History friends, you can now follow the BC Forestry History Association on Youtube.
youtube.com/@foresthistoryas…
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🍃 Unleash your potential as a guardian of the land!
Apply now for the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship program at #UBCForestry🌲
Dive into a curriculum that combines traditional knowledge with contemporary practices.🌍
bit.ly/433TcXv 🔗
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Drought and looper moths have led to the culling of 160,000 trees from the fragile urban forest of Stanley Park. The devastation could be an opportunity to reimagine how to nurture a sustainable ecosystem on the doorstep of downtown Vancouver.
montecristomagazine.com/maga…
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A place where "different values and interests and worldviews collide.”
For our Spring issue, @bsscreative spoke to forest researchers @Allan_L_Carroll and @ira_sutherland and Indigenous tour guide @TalaysayTours about rethinking the purpose behind the park.
Just finished your PhD in Canada & passionate about #EcosystemService? Our team needs a postdoc for modelling & assessment in multifunctional landscapes, with an agri-focus. Join our dynamic team at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, with @NSERC_ResNet. See the links and info below:
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#UBCForestry's @cindyprescott6 and Sue Grayston joined the Your Forest podcast (@yourforestpdcst) to discuss what they have discovered about microbial life in forests.
🔊 Listen to "The Life Beneath Our Feet": spoti.fi/3OVShm1 🔗
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Delighted to share out the Mitigating Wildfire Initiative's new report "Landscape Resilience and Wildfire; a Primer for Collaborative Dialogue." Big thanks to @kcopesgerbitz for her tireless work on this. rb.gy/c8fu35
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Join us on Feb 24, 2024, for "Fortifying Black Futures Through Real-Time Actions."
Let's tackle unemployment, boost economic growth, and create sustainable livelihoods in Black Canadian communities. Stay tuned for speaker announcements!
🌐eventbrite.ca/e/811321543577…
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Last week, @Ubyssey celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day with a series of articles that included a feature on #UBCForestry PhD student, Christina Howard.
Throughout her time at UBC, she has become one of the world’s best triathletes.
bit.ly/3SB6CVU 🔗
An emergent outcome from the UBC Wildfire discussion group, which ran from 2018 - 2022.
New open access research 🔓: "Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research" in Fire Ecology @fireecology @SpringerEcology 🧵
With @kcopesgerbitz @ira_sutherland @sdicksonhoyle @morganahcrowley @TahiaDevisscher @KateKitchens
fireecology.springeropen.com…
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🚨📢#JustPublished in #Landscape #Ecology.
As #agriculture(al) production 🐄🌽 increases in #tropical developing countries🌴🌳, #ecosystem services tend to decline, both in total amount & diversity, impacting #poor(er) households disproportionately.
👉rb.gy/las02e
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🌿 Líl̓wat & #UBCForestry researchers shed light on the impacts of outdoor recreation on Líl̓wat Nation's territory. The study unveils 'slow violence' affecting food sovereignty and cultural practices.
Learn more: bit.ly/47JCZY6 🔗
A tokenistic tree musuem or something really meaningful?
Elliott Almond shares thoughtful reflections on Capilano Suspension Bridge @capbridge, which now costs $67 a visit usapp01.newsmemory.com/casca…
I've always promoted free alternatives: vancouversbigtrees.com/capil…
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How does #colonialism impact #forestry? This is not your typical forest management discussion about ecology, but rather a deeper dive into how we got where we are and what stands in the way of what’s next.
@ira_sutherland @ubcforestry
Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/5dx…
I enjoyed chatting (podcast) about transformation in BC forest management with Matthew Kristoff; now live: open.spotify.com/episode/5dx…
Check out Mathew's @yourforestpdcst for many fascinating takes on forests w/ western Canada focus.
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New Postdoc Opportunity 📢
Interested in #ForestSampling and #LiDAR? Apply to this PDF position and join the IRSS team!
📍@ubcforestry, Vancouver
📆 Deadline: February 15, 2024
📆 Start date: April 1, 2024
🔗postdocs.ubc.ca/ad/57796
@UBC #RemoteSensing #PDFopportunity #PDFjob
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We're hiring!!
Looking for a postdoc to build new Canada-specific maps and models of ecosystem services (ES), and will test how these maps can answer a variety of research, management, and policy questions as part of @NSERC_ResNet. socialecologicalworkshop.com…
