When: January 13, 2026 | 10-11 am Vancouver time (PST)
Where: Online via Zoom
Online Micro-Certificates
Designed for working professionals, UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship’s wide array of micro-certificate programs offers an accessible way to build your skills, engage with industry leaders, and advance your career. Delivered fully online, these micro-certificates provide high-quality, industry-aligned forestry education accessible across Canada.
Join this information session to hear from the program director and ask your questions. Dr. Amy Wotherspoon will also join the session to discuss one of our newest programs, Foundations of Advanced Silviculture.
All of our current micro-certificate programs qualify for the StrongerBC future skills grant, which provides up to $3,500 for eligible short-term training.
Presenters
Sheri Andrews-Key, Director, Micro-Certificate Programming
With extensive experience in large-scale climate vulnerability assessments across different sectors and organizations, Dr. Andrews-Key brings her expertise in the development and implementation of adaptation, specifically as applied to business cases for adaptation across all sectors. She is passionate about exploring how we can bridge science, theory and action to provide students with the comprehensive and applied knowledge necessary to excel in their careers.
Amy Wotherspoon, Program Lead – Foundations of Advanced Silviculture
Dr. Amy Wotherspoon is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Silva21 project, researching how future climate conditions will affect Canada’s managed forests and inform adaptive silviculture. She holds a PhD in Forest Ecology and has expertise in climate–forest interactions and silvicultural treatments. Passionate about teaching, she also works in higher education pedagogy and teaches internationally through UBC programs.