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 |
| Jan 9 | Natalia Mondi | Little Bear Project: Soil carbon and microbial relationships resulting from Kwiakah eco-cultural Regenerative Forest Treatments | McMl 154 / hybrid | n.a. |
| Jan 16 | Deb Chachra, Olin college of Engineering; author of "Inside the Systems that Shape Our World" | In conversation with .... | McMl 154 (in-person only) | n.a. |
| Jan 23 | Shabnam Khalaj, UBC Careers | Communicating your value to employers | McMl 154 (in-person only) | n.a. |
| Jan 30 | Alyssa Robinson | t.b.d. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Feb 6 2:30 start | Zishen Wang, Post Doc, Castellarin lab | Irrigation management of blueberries considering plant and soil properties (joint seminar w Plant Science) | Forestry 1221 | |
| Feb 13 | Roger Bryenton | BC's Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Policies | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Feb 20 | Reading break | no seminar | - | |
| Feb 27 | Kaya Fraser | Above and Belowground Ecological Response to Traditional Land Management by the Kwiakah First Nation | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Mar 6 | John Austenfeld | t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Mar 13 | Kristen Pundyk | t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Mar 20 | Amy Wells | Connecting Silicon Stocks & Ancestral Land Management by the Kwiakah First Nation | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Mar 27 | Catie Ciampaglia, MSc soil science, supervisor Sean Smukler | t.b.c. | McMl 154 / hybrid | |
| Apr 3 | Good Friday | no classes | ||
| Apr 10 | Sandra and friends | End of term gathering | t.b.c. |
*Please note that in-person seminars will also be livestreamed via zoom for folks who cannot join us.