Coordinator Position for Integrated Conservation Field School (Deadline: June 15, 2020)
The Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences in the Faculty of Forestry seeks a coordinator (instructor part-time rank) for the Natural Resources Conservation (Science and Management major) capstone course, CONS 451, from July 1 2020 to Dec 31 2020.
Postdoctoral Position in Hydrologic Modelling (Deadline: May 30, 2020)
We are looking for a dynamic scientist with experience in hydrologic modelling to join our team at the Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The successful candidate will contribute to research aimed at understanding and quantifying the effects of natural and anthropogenic forest disturbances at the stand, small, medium and large watershed scales in snow-dominated environment.
Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Natural Sciences (Deadline: September 1, 2020)
The Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia (UBC), invites applications for a tenure-track academic position in Indigenous Natural Sciences at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to commence on July 1, 2021 or when a suitable candidate is found.
Congratulations to Ira Sutherland for being awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Twenty-one doctoral students at UBC have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, and nine postdoctoral fellows have received a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The announcement was made on September 6 by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, at the University of Alberta. Across Canada, there were 167 new Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients and 70 […]
New Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management program
The UBC Faculty of Forestry is excited to announce that the official approval of the Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM) Program. We are now accepting applications and will welcome our first cohort in August, 2017.
‘Sprinting’ Salmon at Risk
New Faculty of Forestry research suggests excessive burst swimming in wild salmon can cause delayed mortality during migration. Learn more
Forestry graduate selected as 2012 recipient of Governor General’s Gold Medal
MSc Forestry graduate, Jennifer Burt, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal, awarded to the student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record in the graduating class for the Master’s degree with thesis.
Forestry Graduate, Cornelius Motsa, featured in UBC Reports: Weighing forest conservation and need
From: UBC Reports | Vol. 57 | No. 5 | May. 6, 2011 Weighing forest conservation and need By Heather Amos Forests of his youth drive a passion for trees When Cornelius Motsa got the call to his home in Swaziland that he was accepted into UBC’s Forestry program and was the winner of an […]