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UBC Faculty of Forestry > Student Stories

Student Stories

Victor Lum (Forest Sciences)

December 4, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Business Co-op, Conservation & Energy Management Position at FortisBC Energy Inc. I am currently in my fourth co-op work term in the Business Co-op, Conservation & Energy Management position at FortisBC Energy Inc. in Surrey, BC.  Some of my responsibilities include initiating the first steps of processing rebate applications for multiple programs, sorting through mail-in […]

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Jonathan Garsson (Forest Sciences)

December 4, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Jr. Forest Technician Co-op at Fortsite Consultants Ltd. For the past couple of months, I’ve been working at the Fort St. John office of Forsite Consultants Ltd. for my fourth Co-op work term. Forsite Consultants Ltd., or Forsite for short, is a large forestry consulting company that operates within the province of British Columbia and […]

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Ruotong Liu (Wood Products Processing)

December 4, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Production Coordinator Co-op with Builders Door and Window Supply At the start of my co-op term at Builders Door & Window, I was very lucky to work on a process improvement project that significantly impacted the company’s operations. In this project, I conducted time studies and wrote a process flowchart to analyze the whole manufacturing […]

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Tagged with: Co-op, Forestry Co-op, Student Stories, Wood Products Processing

Katia Leo (Forest Sciences)

October 10, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Field Team Member Co-op with Surrey’s Natural Areas Partnership Program This summer I’ve been working as a Field Team Member with a program called SNAP: Surrey’s Natural Areas Partnership. It’s a partnership between three non-profits and the City of Surrey designed to give post-secondary students from the ages of 18-30 valuable field experience through various […]

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Jennie Jiang (Forest Resources Management)

September 28, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Community Forestry Summer Student at Sunshine Coast Community Forest During my co-op work term at Sunshine Coast Community Forest the situated in Sechelt BC, I have had the privilege of assisting the directors with various tasks and intricate projects within the Community Forest including forestry layout plan, timber crusing, traffic control, trail assessment project, culvert […]

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Tagged with: Co-op, Forest Resources Management, Forestry Co-op, Student Stories

Zewen Liu (Urban Forestry)

September 20, 2023 | Author: Tripti

Intern at Fiddlehead Nursery My name is Zewen and I am working in Kimberley, Ontario for my first co-op term. I am working on a farm called Fiddlehead Nursery. In the nursery we sell a wide range of edible perennial plants. I have been doing plant maintenance, gardening, and other tasks like the construction of […]

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Tagged with: Co-op, Forestry Co-op, Student Stories, Urban Forestry

Aidan Chan (Natural Resources Conservation)

September 19, 2023 | Author: Tripti

GIS Business Analyst Co-op at Korotu Technology Inc. I have been working as a GIS Business Analyst to help shape forest management recommendations for landowners, organizations and the government. This includes estimating biomass information on > 900 forest hectares (equivalent to ~ 1200 football fields) and importing data from multiple spatially aware remote sensing data […]

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Maria-Belen de Schutter (Natural Resources Conservation)

August 28, 2023 | Author: nidarang

Intern at UBC Centre for SPDA – Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental in Lima, Peru Working for the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) I have had the opportunity to assist in community-based conservation projects across 3 communities in the Amazonas region of Northern Peru. I have helped set up various camera traps across the dense […]

Posted in: Natural Resources Conservation, Student Stories
Tagged with: Co-op, Forestry Co-op, Natural Resources Conservation, Student Stories

Bridget Guo (Natural Resources Conservation)

August 28, 2023 | Author: nidarang

Forest Inventory Data Analyst at BC Public Service in Victoria, BC This work term, I continued my position with the Ministry of Forests in the Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch from last term. My main task this term was to produce a regression model analysis report used to compare and evaluate the performance of two tree […]

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Tagged with: Co-op, Forestry Co-op, Natural Resources Conservation, Student Stories

Reintroducing the International Forestry Students’ Association

August 24, 2023 | Author: UBC Forestry

After a multi-year hiatus from UBC Forestry, the International Forestry Student’s Association (IFSA-UBC) is returning for the 2023-2024 school year. Learn more about the group’s history, mission and values in a Q & A with President Chenming Wei.

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Tagged with: Graduate, International Students, Leadership, Student Stories, Undergraduate

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