PICS UVic Student Engagement

The Climate Solutions Navigator is hiring a Communications and Coordination Intern! The ‘Climate Solutions Navigator’ draws on a cross-campus working group (WG) responsible for developing and implementing an awareness and engagement plan for climate action opportunities at the University of Victoria (UVic). The Navigator’s goal is to develop and deliver ambitious short-term actions and long-term recommendations to support broader Climate Action and Sustainability Planning at... UVic. The communications and coordination intern provides support to the Climate Solutions Navigator planning team and will report to the PICS UVic Program Manager. Application deadline: January 17th Find more job and volunteer opportunities on the Climate Solutions Toolkit: https://www.climatetoolkit-picsuvic.net/job-and-volunteer-o

Looking for ways to get involved with climate solutions on campus? The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is excited to share the Climate Solutions Toolkit... with #UVic undergrads! Whether you're looking to build your knowledge through a new class, find a research supervisor, or get involved with a student club or organization, this online resource can help. The toolkit celebrates the people and initiatives working towards climate solutions at UVic, and makes it easier to for students to connect with these resources. We will keep adding resources to the toolkit, and welcome feedback on what you think should be included! Check out the toolkit here: https://www.climatetoolkit-picsuvic.net/ Follow PICS UVic Student Engagement or email [email protected] #UvicStudent #climatesolutions

Earlier this year we hosted the PICS Student Forum where we heard from multiple research students through Lightning Talks presentations. These researchers share...d exciting early results of some ongoing PICS projects under the overarching themes of the built and natural environment. Researcher Eric Nance from the PICS Wildfire and Carbon project shared how better quantifying the amount, and types, of wood fibre being burnt in slash piles in BC, can support a more sustainable way of managing forest ecosystems, as well as contribute to meeting provincial GHG targets. View his presentation at http://ow.ly/3ALP50CU8Eq Researcher Nicole Bates-Eamer from the PICS Climate Change Displacement Project presents the challenges British Columbia residents face due to climate change displacement. Nicole is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of Victoria and presented at the PICS 2020 Student Forum. View her presentation at http://ow.ly/flWH50CU8FN Researcher Maha Shehadeh from the PICS Innovations in Mobile Thermal Energy Storage Project explains how her team is developing a mobile, thermal energy storage prototype to enable transmission of waste heat from off-the-grid urban and industrial sources into the City of Surrey’s district energy system. Overall goals include reducing the city’s carbon footprint, as will as the integration of bioenergy into the system. View her presentation at http://ow.ly/OaBj50CU8Gv Researcher Ilana Judah from the PICS Adaptation Mitigation Project presents on the relationship between climate change impacts and multi-unit residential buildings, and the framework she is developing to integrate climate adaptation and mitigation solutions in their design, construction and operations. Buildings and construction are responsible for approximately 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. View her presentation at http://ow.ly/OJgD50CU8H6 Researcher Garrett Therrien from the PICS Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Solutions for Municipalities Project discusses the challenges that communities face in tracking carbon emissions, often due to a lack of data, and how this project will assist with solution pathways for creating effective climate action plans. View his presentation at http://ow.ly/O39b50CU8Hv Researcher Ryan Foxall from the PICS Solid Carbon Project provides an overview of the project’s ambitious goal to capture atmospheric CO2 and convert it into rock beneath the ocean floor. View his presentation at http://ow.ly/OnDW50CU8PM In partnership with PICS Universities University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University

In the past decade, global greenhouse gas emissions have risen sharply, bringing us ever closer to the dangerous limits that our 2030 global climate targets see...k to avoid. Join us this week at the Victoria Forum as PICS Program Manager, Kristy Faccer, co-chair's Democracy in decline, emissions in ascent: Signposts for a more resilient future. The Victoria Forum brings together regional, national and international change-makers with different backgrounds, perspectives and expertise to tackle the issues most important to our country and the world. Learn more about this emission session and more at https://pics.uvic.ca/events/join-us-victoria-forum-2020

An exciting opportunity to join the team behind a pioneering negative emissions technology. The engineering group within the PICS Solid Carbon project is hiring... for three positions in a research project led by Dr. Curran Crawford at the University of Victoria. One PhD and two Post-Doc positions are available. View full details including information on the application process, by visiting https://pics.uvic.ca/news/solid-carbon-hiring