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Oceanic relationships: a Q&A with postdoctoral fellow Rosanna Carver

Oceanic relationships: a Q&A with postdoctoral fellow Rosanna Carver

Dr. Carver explores the complexity of our social and legal relationships with the ocean – especially with the rising prospect of deep sea mining.

Aerial view of a fen in the Rocky Mountains - bright green vegetation surrounds areas of open water.

New project to study the role of wetlands in combating climate change

Sara Knox is co-PI on the pan-Canadian initiative.

New study shows need for safe supply and rural harm reduction support

New study shows need for safe supply and rural harm reduction support

A team modelling fatal overdose odds in B.C. found that people were 30% more likely to lose their lives in rural areas.

Alaska border project awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Alaska border project awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Led by Desiree Valadares, ‘Circuits of Capital’ will document infrastructural routes that traverse Alaska and Canada – including steamboat lines, ice roads and the Alaska Highway.

Sara is a white woman with long brown hair. She is wearing dark framed glasses and a sweater, and smiles at the camera. Text reads: Canada Research Chair in Eco-Meteorology

Sara Knox named Canada Research Chair in Eco-Meteorology

Dr. Knox’s work focuses on how land atmosphere exchanges of greenhouse gas fluxes respond to a changing climate.

A tundra landscape with gently sloping mountains and a glacier in the background. Clear hexagons with open tops are dotted around the foreground, where they enclose patches of delicate tundra plants.

30 years of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX)

A special issue of the journal Arctic Science reflects on three decades of research generated by the project, co-founded by Professor Emeritus Greg Henry.

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The benefits of blended learning at UBC

Dr. Siobhán McPhee and PhD candidate Micheal Jerowsky share their findings in The Conversation.

Large machinery at work in a coal mine

Over half of BC mining projects do not consider their gendered impacts

These include labour equity, violence, and the disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities.

Papwa Sewgolum Golf Course is located along the lush green slopes of the Umgeni River in Durban. Almost unbelievably, a sprawling informal settlement exists just meters from the tee for the 6 hole. A low-slung concrete fence separates the tin shacks from the carefully manicured fairways. In a twist of irony, the golf course is named after an apartheid-era golfer of Indian descent, named Sewsunker “Papwa” Sewgolum. Papwa Sewgolum was an excellent self-taught golfer, with no formal schooling.

A dialogue on uneven development

A new paper, co-authored by Prof. Jamie Peck, discusses past trajectories of uneven development, and what they mean for future research.

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BC Knowledge Development Fund invests in river project

Led by Dr. Marwan Hassan, the experimental Fluvial Landscapes Platform (LegoFlume) will explore the impact of climate change on waterways.