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Leonard Foster: B.C. bees face deadly virus
‘Higher than historical losses’: B.C. bees face growing threat of deadly virus News Sources: CTV, Glacier Media via Vancouver is Awesome, Times Colonist, New Westminster Record, Delta Optimist, Powell River Peak, Prince George Citizen, Pique Newsmagazine, Tri-City News, Alaska Highway NewsCHEK News June 6, 2022 CSFS Associate Dr. Leonard Foster (Michael Smith Lab; department of biochemistry […]
Students use AI to Tackle Heat Damage
UBC Students use Artifical Intelligence (AI) to Tackle Heat Damage May 31, 2022 Students from UBC Sauder School of Business and UBC Faculty of Applied Science have teamed up on a project that uses AI to help prevent heat damage in fruit crops. When surface temperatures of fruit monitored by the AI reach a certain […]
Detecting Insects is Getting High-Tech on UBC Campus: Juli Carrillo and Quentin Geissmann
Detecting Insects is Getting High-Tech on UBC Campus News Source: Reach Out magazine May 24, 2022 A new “sticky” Campus as a Living Laboratory project will enable CSFS researchers Drs. Juli Carrillo and Quentin Geissmann to monitor insects in real-time, on a scale never done before. “This project promises to help us understand insect biodiversity, […]
Leonard Foster talks about importance of bees: City News
Vancouver West End rooftop home to hives to help local bee population News Source: City News May 20, 2022 “The more we can do to support bee health of all kinds — not just honeybees — the better off our environment is going to be,” says Dr. Leonard Foster CSFS Associate and Professor, Michael Smith […]
Very stressful’: Cold weather delays crops for many B.C. farmers, but no relief in sight
Very stressful’: Cold weather delays crops for many B.C. farmers, but no relief in sight News Sources: Global, CFox, Q107 May 16, 2022 Dr. Sean Smukler, CSFS Associate and Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, commented on the impact of longer than usual cold […]
Maja Krzic Named Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science
Maja Krzic Named Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science June, 2022 Congratulations to CSFS Associate Maja Krzic on being named Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS)! This award is presented to members of the CSSS with a distinguished record of accomplishment in soil science and service to the CSSS society.
Livestock is getting caught in the climate change crossfire: Sean Smukler
Livestock is getting caught in the climate change crossfire News Source: Corporate Knights May 9, 2022 CSFS Associate and chair of agriculture and environment in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems Dr. Sean Smukler and NSERC industrial research chair in animal welfare Dr. Dan Weary were interviewed about about adapting animal agriculture to climate […]
Teaser: Growing a Farm
Growing a Farm: The 20-year Journey of the UBC Farm Teaser How a group of dedicated students started, and beat the odds to save, the UBC Farm. https://lfs400media.landfood.ubc.ca/UBCFarm/Episode1_Planting_The_Seeds.mp3 Show notes: To further your knowledge of Musqueam Territory upon which the UBC Farm is situated, check out Land Beneath Our Feet, a Musqueam guide brought to […]
Episode 1: Planting the Seeds
Growing a Farm: The 20-year Journey of the UBC Farm Episode 1: Planting the Seeds Twenty years ago, a group of dedicated students resurrected a derelict research site and turned it into a thriving educational farm. But there were other plans for that land, and growing food wasn’t one of them. https://lfs400media.landfood.ubc.ca/UBCFarm/Episode1_Planting_The_Seeds.mp3 Show notes: To […]
CANOVI Participants: Fill Out the Season Exit Survey
UBC CANOVI Season Exit Survey Survey open from November 15 to December 15, 2021 Data interpretability, usefulness, and trustworthiness In addition to carrying out participatory variety trials, we seek to understand how trial participants use trial data and how this is influenced by dynamics of trust. Specifically, we are investigating the relative usefulness and trustworthiness […]