UVic School of Environmental Studies
3800 Finnerty Rd V8P 5C2 Victoria, BC, Canada

The School of Environmental Studies has made some necessary adjustments to our Summer 2020 course offerings in response to the advice of health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see the attached update on ES Summer course listings. Many Environmental Studies courses have had to be pivoted from their original field-based components to online offerings, or in some cases postponement due to the land-based learning methods and relationship with our community partners.... ER and continuing studies (ecological restoration courses) ES course credits are available on a case-by-case basis, please contact [email protected] for advising support. For schedule and course modification questions, please inquire for details with the course instructor. We are in the midst of arranging the returning of course fees and deposits for our Summer 2020 ES Field Schools, and more information on this will follow next week. Please email [email protected] if you have concerns or questions and rest assured that we will be processing these returns as appropriate, and in a timely manner. Thank you for your patience as we adjust to arrange for these necessary changes. We wish you and your friends and families good health and wellbeing.

New research by Jason T Fisher and collaborators show that predators are affected more so than prey species, and that anthropogenic features impact predator distribution 10X more than natural habitat! Paper: https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca//S00 Thread: https://twitter.com/JasonTFis//1316088297509150720/photo/1

With fewer people hiking the West Coast Trail, will wildlife behaviour change? Our @BStarzomski comments https://www.timescolonist.com//a-strangely-quiet-summer-fo

Our Sarah Hunt / Taliila’ogwa is the CRC in Indigenous Political Ecology. Find out more about her research, her return home, and being a role model for the huge number of Indigenous students who are changing the way academia works across the country. https://www.uvic.ca//2020+indigenous-political-ecology-hun

New paper by MSc grad Jemma Green & Eric Higgs on factors affecting where the Pacific chorus frog is found. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-020-01057-4

What are political ecology issues for conservation? Our #UVicENVI seminar series continues with a talk from Tracey Heatherington this WEDNESDAY.

Wolf culls are a divisive issue, but they continue in part to safeguard livestock. What are your thoughts on the practice, and do you think other alternatives would be as or more effective? https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-cattlemens-association-livestock-/

Richard Hebda (adjunct) talks about saving BC's Western red cedars https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-red-flags-in-the/

Thomas Heyd (adjunct) has a new paper, Covid-19 and climate change in the times of the Anthropocene published in @AnthropoceneRev https://journals.sagepub.com/d/abs/10.1177/2053019620961799

Our #UVicENVI seminar series continues with a talk from Charles Menzies this WEDNESDAY.

Very cool work! New study from UVic Geography & UVic Anthropology confirms the diet of ancient domestic dogs in Tseshaht First Nation territory to be largely marine fish-based, giving a better understanding of human-dog relationships. https://www.uvic.ca//2020+wool-dogs-tseshaht-first-nations

Living that Zoom life? Well our Jason Fisher is out doing field work IRL right now. Lucky! https://twitter.com/JasonTFisher/status/1311020514547085317

Our @kekinusuqsJudith Sayers joins CBC Radio's "On the Island" to discuss the upcoming provincial election in BC, the NDP's record on issues vital to Indigenous nations in BC. Tune into "Pandemic, pipelines, and the pursuit of self-determination" https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-48-on-the-island

Our John Volpe researches food and wine production systems to reveal linkages between ecological and social sustainability, quality, and the primacy of place, a.k.a. "Ecogastronomy". Find out more at http://www.johnvolpe.ca/

Are you concerned about equity and the transition to renewable energy? Then join us this WEDNESDAY for our #UVicENVI seminar series with Emily Eaton