UBC Forestry
Hybrid Steel-CLT Composite Connection Design Enhances Capacity and Constructability in Timber Buildings
With the rapid growth of the mass timber construction industry, the challenges of making the building process more efficient through constructability, sustainability, and compliance with performance-based design regulations, are as prevalent as ever. A new experimental study conducted at UBC by Samuel Shulman and Cristiano Loss examines the behavior and performance of innovative hybrid shear […]
Rob Guy Receives the Faculty of Forestry Excellence in Graduate Supervision Award for 2023
UBC Forestry celebrates Dr. Rob Guy’s generosity of expertise, integrity and his ability to inspire and provide encouragement and tailored support for graduate students on their individual journeys.
Bianca Eskelson Receives the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship
Dr. Bianca Eskelson has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is recognized as a Humboldt fellow for her research project on climate-sensitive tree mortality models and the economic implications of altered mortality probabilities in mixed-species stands in central Europe and interior British Columbia, Canada.
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2023 FPBC Management Award and MGEM Program Awards
UBC Forestry congratulates the winners of the FPBC Management Award, the MGEM Best in Class Award, and the MGEM GTA Award. The recipients demonstrated exceptional leadership and teamwork skills and contributions to teaching that earned them high respect from students and course supervisors.
Congratulations to our 2023 Best in Program Winners!
UBC Forestry recognized its award winners at the Silver Ring Ceremony earlier this month. Get to know some of this year’s Best in Program Winners, their advice for future students and what is next for them. From sustainable development to fieldwork and wildlife, these students share what inspired them to pursue a degree in forestry. Congratulations to all the graduates!
Younes Alila and Lydia Braam Receive AMS Just Desserts Award
UBC Forestry congratulates Professor Younes Alila and Lydia Braam for winning the AMS Just Desserts Award. The Just Desserts Award honours faculty, staff, and/or students who have gone above and beyond in their service to an AMS constituency.
Our internet addiction is destroying our ability to combat the climate crisis: An Earth Day Q&A with Hamish van der Ven
The internet is firmly embedded in human life, but we need to consider its rising physical and non-physical costs to the environment and our ability to address climate change. That’s according to Dr. Hamish van der Ven, assistant professor in the UBC Department of Wood Science, whose lab investigates how technology impacts the great sustainability […]
Lori Daniels Receives Association of Fire Ecology Distinguished Leader in Research Award
Dr. Lori Daniels’ innovative and collaborative research has resulted in policy and practice impacts on forest and community resilience to wildfires.
Marshall, Peter
Forest Resources Management
Mitchell, Stephen
Founding Director, Master of Sustainable Forest Management Program
Forest and Conservation Sciences