Course:SOIL500/Current Seminars
Soil 500 Seminar Series - SEMINARS
2025/26W Term 1 (Sep-Dec 2025)
3:00-4:00 pm In-person and via zoom
contact sandra.brown@ubc.ca for zoom link
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Location | Bio/Abstract / poster |
| Sep 5 | Sandra and colleagues | Welcome back meet - n greet (faculty, staff and studentes) | McMl 154 | n.a. |
| Sep 12 | Grad students | Posters and props | McMl 154 | n.a. |
| Sep 19 | Sean Smukler, Director of CSFS | UBC Farm Fall Picnic (1st 200 students get free meal) | UBC Farm | n.a. |
| Sep 26 | Amy Wells, MSc co-supervised by JT Cornelis and Maja Krzic | Radiance fields for virtual soils (winner of best student presentation at CSSS) | McMl 154 / hybrid | Abstract/BIo |
| Oct 3 | Emily Dennis, UNBC MSc supervised by Michael Preston. | Thirty-Year Soil Productivity: Impacts of Soil Compaction and Organic Matter Removal in Lodgepole Pine and Hybrid Spruce Forests of British Columbia | McMl 154 / hybrid | Abstract |
| Oct 10 | Patrick Pow, Postdoc, Wagner-Riddle CWR Agrometeorology Lab, Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph | CanN2ONet - Nitrous oxide emissions from flux-gradient sites in the Canadian Nitrous Oxide Network | McMl 154 / hybrid | Abstract / Bio |
| Oct 17 | Tristin Bouwman, PhD candidate, supervisor Sean Smukler | Evaluating Organic and Regenerative Agriculture as Climate Change Mitigation Options t.b.c. | - | |
| Oct 24 | De Shorn Bramble, Post Doc SoilRes3 lab w JT Cornelis | Formation of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter in Soils: Role of Mineral Type and Land Use | McMl 154 | |
| Oct 31 | Kymberly Eppich, MSc supervisor Maja Krzic | Spatial soil data use in Canada | Hybrid / speaker via zoom | |
| Nov 7 | Jessica Chiartas, post-doc and research manager at CSFS | Conservation management practices and soil C / soil health impacts | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Nov 14 | Alan Lee, PhD supervisor Sean Smukler | t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Nov 21 | Catie Ciampaglia, MSc soil science, supervisor Sean Smukler | Agricultural management practices that minimize greenhouse gas emissions t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Nov 28 | Steward Fuoco, MSc, co-supervisors JT Cornelis and Luke Bainard (Agriculture – Agrifood Canada) | Responses of microbial communities to invasive weed pressure in grazed and ungrazed grasslands in British Columbia t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Dec 5 | Sandra and friends | World soil day activity t.b.d. | McMl 154 | n.a. |
*Please note that in-person seminars will also be livestreamed via zoom for folks who cannot join us.