May 17, 2024
Assistant Professor Dr. Jean-Thomas Cornelis spends a lot of time getting his hands dirty. But when your research focuses on understanding the intricate micro-scale soil processes that underpin macrosized ecosystems, grubby fingernails at the end of the day are a standard occupational hazard.
Tagged with 2024, Indigenous, Soil Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research
May 17, 2024
While Dr. Andrew Riseman takes a lengthy view of the research topics he tackles at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm (CSFS), many of the real world challenges in his field are arising more often and becoming more dramatic.
Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Plant Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research
May 17, 2024
In the face of multiple crises converging on the way we grow, distribute and eat food, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at the UBC Farm is responding with a new plan to facilitate change.
Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut
May 17, 2024
Understanding and addressing agriculture’s biggest climate change challenges starts at the microscopic level for plant physiologist Dr. Thorsten Knipfer.
Tagged with 2024, Plant Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research
May 17, 2024
Dean’s Message At home and around the world, we are facing climate extremes. We are shattering records like never before. One striking example is last year’s wildfire season. Across Canada ongoing drought and high temperatures fuelled a record wildfire season that torched 16.5 million hectares of land. That is six times more than in a […]
Tagged with 2024, Staff
Categories: ReachOut
April 29, 2024
We asked Thilini Leitan, our LFS Student Engagement Officer about her favourite treat.
Tagged with 2024, Staff
Categories: News
April 25, 2024
Three senior students are being recognized for making a positive impact in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Shout out to Jasmine Zhao, Jason Pang and Kelly Chia for providing new ideas, leadership, and long-standing service to benefit students and the overall LFS community.
Tagged with 2024, Awards, Food Nutrition and Health, Global Resource Systems, Undergraduate
Categories: News
April 23, 2024
Risa Sargent, who heads the Plant Pollinator and Global Change lab in LFS, and master’s student Sarah Knoerr are featured in a UBC News story to discuss rising concerns about the number of common eastern bumble bees—an introduced species—being found in the wild and in research surveys of pollinators in the Lower Mainland.
Tagged with 2024, Applied Biology
Categories: News, Research
