Want a quick look at what ES grad students are actually working on?
Note: next week’s 11:30 seminar is cancelled.
Instead, join us April 1 (1–3pm, DTB B255) for short research presentations + Q&A.
New ideas, early-stage projects, and room to ask questions.
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From net pens to river restoration—this is applied learning in action.
Dr. Benjamin Neal shows how UVic students engage directly in BC fisheries recovery.
March 25 | 11:30–12:30 | DTB B255
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Indigenous Knowledge offers long-tested ways of caring for land and community. How can it reshape cumulative effects assessment and resource management?
Join Lawrence Ignace / Miskomin on braiding Indigenous Knowledge with governance to rethink sustainability.
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Climate action needs more than policies and targets. What motivates people to actually take part?
Gustav Osberg explores how values, relationships, and shared purpose can power participation in climate governance.
📅 Mar 11 | #UVicENVI
Warming Arctic seas are impacting subsistence harvests in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Collaborating with Ulukhaktok community members, a team created a Cultural Calendar that connects climate, species, language, and knowledge systems. Come learn more! #UVicENVI
What is Indigenous political ecology — and who defines the “political” and the “ecological”?
Join Dr. Hunt as she shares relational principles shaping this field, the central role of Indigenous leadership, and why Indigenous political ecology matters for environmental studies.
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It's reading week, so just a reminder there is no #UVicENVI seminar this week. See you all next week!
If culture matters in humans, why wouldn’t it matter in chimpanzees?
Dr. Ammie Kalan shares evidence from 40+ wild communities showing rich, threatened cultural diversity — including distinct termite-fishing traditions.
Conservation needs to protect populations and their cultures.
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“Water Lines: Landscape, Design, and Environmental Legibility”
How can design make hidden water systems visible—and political?
This talk traces water across rivers, pipes, dams, and dry landscapes to show how landscape architecture helps us read power, ecology, and public concern.
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B.C. “running out of electricity”? Not so fast.
Dr. Mark Zacharias breaks down what’s fact vs fiction in debates about EVs, heat pumps, and electrification—and what smart planning actually means for a net-zero grid. #UVicENVI
Is B.C. really running out of electricity?
At this #UVicENVI seminar, Mark Zacharias breaks down claims about power shortages, drought-year imports, and electrification—and explains what the evidence actually shows.
A fact-based look at how B.C. can plan an affordable, reliable path to net-zero.
Join Louise Blight at #UVicENVI seminar on bird–window collisions.
Window strikes kill ~25 million birds each year in Canada—second only to cats. A UVic study shows West Coast impacts can be worse, especially in fall & winter.
Learn which species are most at risk & which building fixes reduce deaths
Join us at #UVicENVI seminar by Salvatore Curasi where he talks about climate change's effects on Arctic and boreal ecosystems, focusing on wildfires' impact on Canada's carbon cycle and plant traits' role in climate-carbon feedbacks in tundra ecosystems.
Join us for the #UVicENVI seminar “The Political Ecologies of Fire” by Onyx Sloan Morgan, examining how colonial forestry policy & timber capitalism shape wildfire risk in BC, often excluding Indigenous law, using Indigenous feminist perspectives and case studies from lək̓ʷəŋən and syilx territories
#UVicENVI grad student Rekha Marcus found real hope at COP30 — meeting youth leaders, Indigenous land defenders, and researchers in the Amazon. A good read on why these connections matter: news.uvic.ca/2025/environ...
There are no more #UVicENVI seminars until the new year! Watch this page for our upcoming speaker dates, beginning in January 2026.
www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...
📣 Dec 3, 12:30–13:30 (NB time change) #UVicENVI
Dr. Kelsie Murchy (UVic Biology) shares new work using passive acoustic monitoring to track Arctic cod & other gadids. She’ll cover daily and seasonal sound patterns, species differences, and what this means for monitoring shifts in a warming Arctic
Join us for the #UVicENVI Colloquium on Nov 26, 11:30–12:30 in DTB B255.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.
