UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship would like to congratulate the following faculty members and graduate students on receiving Wall Research Awards:
Team Faculty Awards:
Project Title: How Deep Learning can be Harnessed by Indigenous Fire (Qwen) Stewardship: A Pilot with Yunesit’in
William Nikolakis (Lead PI), Tara Atleo, and Nicholas Coops
In partnership with the Yunesit’in Government, UBC researchers are combining Indigenous Knowledge with deep learning to strengthen Indigenous Fire Stewardship. The project will document traditional ecological indicators with Yunesit’in fire stewards and integrate them with satellite and sensor data, supporting wildfire resilience and sustainable forest management across BC and beyond.
Graduate Student Awards:
About Wall Research Awards
Wall Research Awards (Faculty) are available annually to UBC faculty members through the Peter Wall Legacy Fund, an endowment established by Peter Wall, to support research excellence at UBC and invest in those who will help move BC and the world forward.
Wall Research Awards for tenured and track faculty members are available as individual and group awards.
- Team awards of up to $200,000, awarded to a group of three to five faculty members over a maximum term of up to three years.
- Individual awards of up to $80,000 over a maximum term of three years.
The Wall Research Awards focus on enabling good future work, rather than as rewards for past work, and are intended to support a range of scholars at different career stages. Projects supported by these awards may be exploratory or derived from established programs of inquiry.
Wall Research Awards (Master’s and PhD students)
Graduate awards (Master’s and PhD students) are available annually through the Peter Wall Legacy Fund, an endowment established by Peter Wall, for graduate students whose thesis/dissertation research relates to one of three specific areas of interest of the Wall Legacy Fund.
- $30,000 per year for PhD candidates for 1-2 years
- $25,000 for Master’s students, for 1 year.
See the full list of 2025 Wall Legacy Award recipients, and read project details here.