UBC Forestry
Alila, Younes
Forest Resources Management
Aitken, Sally
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Congratulations to the 2022/23 recipients of the Binkley Family Graduate Scholarship
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship congratulates the 2022/23 recipients of the Binkley Family Graduate Scholarship. The scholarship is granted annually to one outstanding student in each UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Professional Master’s program.
Ahmed, Suborna
Forest Resources Management
UBC Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship HEAL Network Receives Grant Renewal to Continue Innovative Research
UBC’s Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship is thrilled to announce that the Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation and ResiLience (HEAL) network has had its grant renewed for another year. Co-led by Dr. Lorien Nesbitt, Department of Forest Resources Management and Dr. Chris Carlsten, Division of Respiratory Medicine/Department of Medicine, the interdisciplinary group is one of 40 UBC research excellence clusters that received funding under the university’s Research Excellence Clusters Initiative.
In the Spotlight: Jaya Joshi
Jaya Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wood Science at UBC. Her research focuses on improving the yield and nutritional values of crops, guided by the aim of successful implementation of carbon farming by 2050.
Ingrid Jarvis Receives the Best Doctoral Dissertation and Marina Melanidis Receives the Best Master’s Thesis Awards in Forestry for 2022
The Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship would like to congratulate Dr. Ingrid Jarvis for winning the Best Dissertation Award and Ms. Marina Melanidis for winning the Best Master’s Thesis Award.
Wild and Immersive wins Maple Ridge Stewardship of a Community Cultural Asset Award
Wild & Immersive runs educational programming for youth out of the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, with a goal to teach the importance of our local ecosystems and diverse ecology and planting the seed of environmental curiosity.
Celebrating Black History Month 2023
Black History Month serves as a time to honor and celebrate the accomplishments of Black students, staff, and faculty within our UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship community. While we should celebrate these achievements everyday, we hope to offer this time as an opportunity for focused and intentional reflection. This year, we are grateful to share with you four stories of some of our amazing Forestry students and alumni.