We're hiring!! Looking for a postdoc to build new Canada-specific maps and models of ecosystem services (ES), and will test how these maps can answer a variety of research, management, and policy questions as part of NSERC ResNet. socialecologicalworkshop.com/opportunities-1

New Postdoc Opportunity 📢 Interested in #ForestSampling and #LiDAR? Apply to this PDF position and join the IRSS team! 📍@ubcforestry, Vancouver 📆 Deadline: February 15, 2024 📆 Start date: April 1, 2024 🔗postdocs.ubc.ca/ad/57796 University of British Columbia #RemoteSensing #PDFopportunity #PDFjob

I enjoyed chatting (podcast) about transformation in BC forest management with Matthew Kristoff; now live: open.spotify.com/episode/5dxiDD… Check out Mathew's yourforestpodcast for many fascinating takes on forests w/ western Canada focus.

🚨📢#JustPublished in #Landscape #Ecology. As #agriculture(al) production 🐄🌽 increases in #tropical developing countries🌴🌳, #ecosystem services tend to decline, both in total amount & diversity, impacting #poor(er) households disproportionately. 👉rb.gy/las02e

How does #colonialism impact #forestry? This is not your typical forest management discussion about ecology, but rather a deeper dive into how we got where we are and what stands in the way of what’s next. Ira @ubcforestry Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/5dxiDD…

A tokenistic tree musuem or something really meaningful? Elliott Almond shares thoughtful reflections on Capilano Suspension Bridge Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, which now costs $67 a visit usapp01.newsmemory.com/cascadiadailyn… I've always promoted free alternatives: vancouversbigtrees.com/capilano-suspe…

🌿 Líl̓wat & #UBCForestry researchers shed light on the impacts of outdoor recreation on Líl̓wat Nation's territory. The study unveils 'slow violence' affecting food sovereignty and cultural practices. Learn more: bit.ly/47JCZY6 🔗

An emergent outcome from the UBC Wildfire discussion group, which ran from 2018 - 2022.

So excited this freely available paper is now out! 🔥 "Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research" 🔥 Born from a collaborative effort with a stellar group of early-career researchers, w/ applicability to all career levels and fire contexts.

Congrats to the caring thinkers and doers behind this guiding compass for transdisciplinary fire research! At once tangible and reflexive, this is the internal/external work we need! 🙌🔥

Last week, The Ubyssey celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day with a series of articles that included a feature on #UBCForestry PhD student, Christina Howard. Throughout her time at UBC, she has become one of the world’s best triathletes. bit.ly/3SB6CVU 🔗

Delighted to share out the Mitigating Wildfire Initiative's new report "Landscape Resilience and Wildfire; a Primer for Collaborative Dialogue." Big thanks to Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz for her tireless work on this. rb.gy/c8fu35

#UBCForestry's Cindy Prescott and Sue Grayston joined the Your Forest podcast (yourforestpodcast) to discuss what they have discovered about microbial life in forests. 🔊 Listen to "The Life Beneath Our Feet": spoti.fi/3OVShm1 🔗

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FANTASTIC post-doc opportunity at UBC Okanagan #landscape #sustainability #ecosystemServices

Drought and looper moths have led to the culling of 160,000 trees from the fragile urban forest of Stanley Park. The devastation could be an opportunity to reimagine how to nurture a sustainable ecosystem on the doorstep of downtown Vancouver. montecristomagazine.com/magazine/volum…

A place where "different values and interests and worldviews collide.” For our Spring issue, Barb Sligl spoke to forest researchers Allan Carroll and Ira and Indigenous tour guide Talaysay Tours about rethinking the purpose behind the park.

🍃 Unleash your potential as a guardian of the land! Apply now for the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship program at #UBCForestry🌲 Dive into a curriculum that combines traditional knowledge with contemporary practices.🌍 bit.ly/433TcXv 🔗

History friends, you can now follow the BC Forestry History Association on Youtube. youtube.com/@foresthistory…