September 28, 2021: Conservation Discussion Group with Rassim Khelifa
We started meetings last week and, thanks to all who participated, we have come up with an exciting theme line-up for the term!
- Next week: Our speaker Dr. Rassim Khelifa will lead a discussion on “Using Games for Environmental Education and Public Outreach”!! See his poster below- gamers out there, you’ll want to check this out. For all of us, this will be a fun and creative discussion on how to inspire and educate people about conservation!
Other themes this term:
- Current events and conservation (e.g., covid-19 and recent heat waves)
- Networking November (every week we’ll bring in an expert to connect with and learn about their career path, interaction with academia, and successes and failures in conservation)
- Topics in restoration (natural climate solutions and ecosystem engineering)
The Conservation Discussion Group (CDG) meets every other week on Tuesdays to discuss any and all things conservation-related. Speakers and participants from many departments across UBC, and from inside and outside academia are invited to try to broaden our exposure to conservation ideas and practices. To give you an idea of conservation topics, last year we introduced the CDG/Conservation Science Initiative Spotlight series (which we plan to bring back) and addressed anti-racism in ocean sciences, and conservation across many scales of research. More details about past meetings are available on our website: https://zoology.ubc.ca/conservation/.
