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 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.
UBC Forestry’s Asia Forest Research Centre Wins Open Innovation Award
UBC Forestry is proud to announce the faculty’s Asia Forest Research Centre (AFRC) is the recipient of the 2022 Open Innovation Award from Open Education Global. The AFRC offers 14 graduate-level certificate online courses developed as Open Education Resources (OERs) that have been widely utilized by over 15,000 students globally.
UBC Forestry’s JOHSC Wins Safety Award for Innovation
UBC Forestry is proud to announce the faculty’s Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee (JOHSC) received the 2022 award for Innovative Promotion of Safety Culture at this year’s UBC Safety Day.
Stavros Avramidis Awarded 2022 Carola and Carl-Olof Ternryd Award
UBC Forestry warmly congratulates Professor Stavros Avramidis, recipient of the 2022 Linnaeus Academy Research Foundation’s Carola and Carl-Olof Ternryd Award, for significant contributions to research in forestry.
Dr. Nicholas Coops named 2022 Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Achievement Award Recipient
UBC Forestry warmly congratulates Dr. Nicholas Coops for being named the 2022 Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF-IFC) Scientific Award Recipient. The award honours individuals who have made innovative and outstanding achievements in forestry research in Canada.
Congratulations to the Recipient of the 2022/23 Gordon and Nora Bailey Fellowship Award
UBC Forestry congratulates Sarah Smith-Tripp for receiving the 2022/23 Gordon and Nora Bailey Fellowship in Sustainable Forestry. The Award aims to support students whose studies focus on issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, such as sustainable forest management practices, wildfire prevention and carbon capture.
Candidates Encouraged to Apply for Ubc Future Forests Fellowship
UBC Faculty of Forestry’s Future Forests Fellowship (FFF), one of the largest single awards in the world given to an incoming doctoral student in forestry, is once again available in 2022. Made possible by a private Canadian foundation, the award, amounting to $280,000 over four years, was created to underscore just how much forestry research impacts global current and emerging ecological issues.
Dr. Janette Bulkan & Dr. Tara Martin awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grants
UBC Forestry warmly congratulates Dr. Janette Bulkan and Dr. Tara Martin who are recipients of this year’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC’s) Insight and Partnership Grants.
Maja Krzic Awarded Canadian Society of Soil Science Fellow Award
UBC Forestry warmly congratulates Dr. Maja Krzic, recipient of one of this year’s Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS) Fellow Awards. The award recognizes individuals for their acclaimed accomplishments in the soil science field and their service to the Society.
2022 Alumni Builder Award Winner Shares His Secret to Success
Some lessons demand experience to be understood. For Arthur Tsai, testing his limits helped him realize not only what he was capable of, but a path that led him to complete both a BSc in Wood Science and Industry and MSc in Forestry at UBC, as well as achieve success heading Paper Excellence’s market intelligence team.