Tue, February 18, 2014 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The Leslie L. Schaffer Lecture in Forest Sciences: Fire and ice: responses by stream-riparian ecosystems to shifting disturbance regimes and some consequences for forest management Colden Baxter, Associate Professor and Director,...
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Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...
Climate Emergency Week
Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.
UBC Reads Sustainability
Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
SDG Week Canada
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.
Climate Justice Series
In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 17:30
Tue, February 18, 2014 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics. This event is part of the...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . This workshop introduces standard citation metric tools that are commonly used to rank researchers individual journals or articles and even whole universities. Learn how to ensure that your citation metrics scores are as...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Are you getting ready to submit your first paper for publication? This workshop will give you guidance about selecting appropriate journals and also survey key aspects of preparing and submitting your paper. Location:...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 14:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally publishing your research. This workshop will...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 13:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . This session will focus on conducting literature reviews in all disciplines. We'll look at: ...what is a literature review? ...what is the 'literature'? ...search strategies for databases ...finding scholarly articles,...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 13:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, February 18, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 11:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . As a UBC graduate student you may already know that you'll need to upload your thesis or dissertation to cIRcle one day. But did you know that there's also a bi-annual lottery award of $500 for uploading your non-thesis (...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 10:30
Tue, February 18, 2014 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Come learn how to quickly make maps with SimplyMap. This web-based software allows you to map Canadian and US socioeconomic data from Census data and demographic estimates, as well as household spending. You can also create...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 09:00