Biodiversity Public Lecture: Claire Kremen "A Bee's Eye View of a Healthy Food System"

Congratulations Rashid Sumaila: 2017 Volvo Environment Prize

Rashid Sumaila is awarded 2017 Volvo Environment Prize for his radical solution to making the world's wild fisheries more sustainable.

Congratulations Stilianos Louca

Congratulations to Stilianos Louca (BRC postdoc) for winning the grand prize of the 2017 Science and SciLife Lab competition for his 2016 PhD thesis!  Awards are made annually in each of four different life science categories.  One of the awardees is then chosen to be the grand…

Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others

William Cheung

Congratulations Diane Srivastava!

Diane Srivastava, is the new Director of the Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution (http://ciee-icee.com)!  Founded in 2008, the CIEE has been promoting and funding synthesis research in Canada, as well as training workshops (see listing http://ciee-icee.com/CIEE-ICEE-Research-Programs…

Congratulations Sally Aitken!

Please congratulate Sally Aitken, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada!  Sally is a leading authority on climate change adaptation and plant conservation genetics.  She was studying evolutionary responses to climate change in the 1990s, long before this became a mainstream…

Job Opening: President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity Studies

The President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity Studies is expected to establish UBC as a global leader for research and graduate training in this field. The Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, invites applications for a President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity Studies. We welcome applications from candidates working in any area of biodiversity research, and on any organisms or ecosystems. Candidates are expected to have an innovative and integrative research program that would extend and complement existing faculty strengths in conservation biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, microbial evolution, physiology, and systematics.  

Bird’s eye view helps reduce avian-window collisions on campus

Sally Otto

'Redwoods of the sea' reveal fundamental growth patterns for photosynthesis (Science magazine)

Patrick Martone 

Spider sharing isn't always caring: Colonies die when arachnids overshare food (UBC News)

Ruth Sharpe, Avilés lab