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Wed. Sept 18th 4:30 PM – EME 1202- Nature’s Role as municipal Infrastructure – Emanuel Machado

Wed. Sept 18th 4:30 PM – EME 1202- Nature’s Role as municipal Infrastructure – Emanuel Machado

Dear BRAES members and friends don’t miss this talk!  Emanuel Machado will talk about how the Town of Gibsons B.C. was the first North American municipality to manage natural assets, using asset management, financial management and ecology principles that are systematically applied to managing engineered assets. The rationale is that the services provided by these […]

Beautiful Destruction: Using Art to Grapple with the Alberta Tar/Oil Sands

Louis Helbig, author of the book Beautiful Destruction, will be speaking in the BRAES Classroom Speaker Series on October 1st, 2015, 11:30-12:30, room TBA. Louis Helbig brings an eclectic background to his work. He competed internationally on Canada’s national cross country ski team, flew bush planes in rural BC, holds an MSc from the London […]

On March 27th, Dr. Jérôme Dupras, expert in Ecosystems Services will be on Campus

BRAES Guest Speakers Series Presents: “Economic value of Montreal’s green and blue belt non-market ecosystem services in a land use management and planning perspective” Presenter: Dr. Jérôme Dupras Assistant Professor, University of Québec Friday, March 27th  10:30 – 11:30 AM  Room: FIPKE 250 UBC Okanagan RSVP with Carolina Restrepo at carolina.restrepo@ubc.ca Abstract: The Greater Montreal […]

World Water Day Speaker

BRAES is proud to co-sponsor the keynote presentation  during the World Water Day Celebrations on March 19th The Keynote speaker for that day is the novelist  Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Brief Abstract: (Stanford University B.A., English, and University of British Columbia M.A., English) Eileen has recently completed a forthcoming history of the upper Columbia River’s natural systems […]

BRAES Workshop: Language R (second edition)

Mondays, March 23rd and 30th. Your First Steps in the Open Source Language R (Second Edition) Presenter: Matthias Bass, PhD. Student, Complex Environmental Systems Laboratory at UBCO Time: 1-4 PM              Room: ARTS 219 REGISTRATION REQUIRED BRAES and UBC Community: Free;  General Public: $20.00 For registration and additional information please contact: Carolina […]

BRAES Speaker Series presents on December 5th

Using spatial graphs to determine management priorities in fragmented forest landscapes  Speaker: Dr. Elise Filotas Assistant Professor in Environment TÉLUQ | Université du Québec December 1st 2014, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Room: TBC

BRAES Workshops Series Presents:

Wednesdays, Dec. 3rd and 10th Your First Steps in the Open Source Language R Presenter: Matthias Bass, PhD. Student, Complex Environmental Systems Laboratory at UBCO Time: 12:00-3:00 PM              Room: EME1151 REGISTRATION REQUIRED BRAES and UBC Community: Free;  General Public: $20.00 For registration and additional information please contact: Carolina Restrepo at carolina.restrepo@ubc.ca NO PROGRAMMING […]

October 29th- BRAES Partners in the Classroom Speaker Series

BRAES, is pleased to announce the “BRAES Partners in the Classroom Speaker Series” with the following presentation: Wednesday, October 29th 9:30 to 10:30 AM Room: EME 1151 “Forest Carbon Offsets and their Potential Markets” Speaker: Kelly Sherman, CEO ECORA (Local Forestry Consulting Company) Host Prof.: Adam Wei   Open to the public –   Refreshments will be […]

BRAES New Members

Since May 2014 we welcome 3 new members to BRAES: Dr. Greg Garrard, Associate Professor in Sustainability, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Dr. John Wagner, Associate Professor, Community, Culture and Global Studies, IK Barber School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Aleksandra Dulic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Call for Session Proposals and Abstracts for the Okanagan Water & Biodiversity Forum is now open!!

For more information or details please click here or contact Carolina Restrepo at carolina.restrepo@ubc.ca.