Graduate Academic Assistants for Online Teaching (Deadline: Until Filled)
Are you interested in becoming a Graduate Academic Assistant in the Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences at UBC Forestry? There are many positions available.
Ira Hudgin (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – Environment and Climate Change Canada, Vancouver, BC For my second co-op term I have been working within the Canadian Wildlife Service, which is a branch of the Environment and Climate Change Canada department. I have been working within the stewardship unit and on the priority place team as a conservation planning assistant. The […]
Haina Luo (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – Urban Ecosystems Lab of Forestry Resources Management, Vancouver BC I worked with Urban Ecosystem Lab of FRM this spring as a data analyst. My supervisor is a PhD candidate working on how to classify city trees based on their ecohydrological features in Montgomery County, Maryland. The research is completely remote sensing based. I […]
Hannah Bugas (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Vancouver BC This past winter I was working as a Outreach Intern with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – BC Chapter. It has been extremely fulfilling being able to communicate conservation science and garner support for our campaigns to create more protected areas, and learn how the […]
Georgina Magnus (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC For my last coop I moved to Victoria, BC to work for Natural Resources Canada as apart of the Carbon Accounting Team and Deforestation Monitoring Team. For this role I used remote sensing tools such as ArcGIS to create a systematic process to validate afforestation data in Ontario, […]
Wildflowers Adapt to Deer Presence – UBC Study
Researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry have now shown that seablush, a wildflower of endangered Garry Oak ecosystems throughout the Pacific Northwest, can adapt rapidly to become a large, showy plant over a metre tall where deer are absent, or a diminutive plant only centimeters tall where deer are present, but is nevertheless rapidly driven to extinction where deer are overabundant.
Laura Gordon (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – UBC Belowground Ecosystem Group, Graham Island, BC For my third work term, I worked as a research assistant with Sue Grayston in the UBC Belowground Ecosystem Group. The research, which was part of the MFLNRO Forest Carbon Initiative, was designed to study how fertilization of western red cedar seedlings in Haida Gwaii could increase […]
Cindy Choi (Natural Resources Conservation) | Fall 2019
BSCN – Ecobase, South Korea Over the autumn of 2019, I had an invaluable opportunity to work in South Korea at a privately owned lab/manufacturing company called Ecobase for four months as a sewage water quality diagnosis lab assistant. To work in Korea, where I used to live until the age of twelve, was eye […]
Angelo Chang (Natural Resources Conservation) | Winter 2020
BSCN – Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Dawson Creek, BC My time with FLNRORD in Dawson Creek is often filled with a balance of Office and Field work. Specifically, I have been heavily involved with logging residue and waste assessment project, which heavily involves inquiry of data and information […]
Arial Eatherton (Natural Resources Conservation) | Fall 2019
BSCN – Tree Ring Lab, Vancouver, BC For my fourth co-op term, I worked as a crew lead and research assistant as a part of the Tree Ring Lab in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC. In this position, I completed field work in wildfire affected plots establish by the BC government across the Cariboo […]