Fall 2021
| Date | Name(s) and Pronoun(s) | Topic |
| Sept. 14 | CDG Facilitators | CDG Welcome Session |
| Sept. 28 | Dr. Rassim Khelifa (Postdoc in WoRCS Lab, IRES) | Creative Conservation Outreach |
| Oct. 12 | Fiona Beaty (PhD Candidate, Harley Lab); Sandra Emry (PhD Candidate, Harley Lab); Graham Brownlee (Master’s Candidate, Harley Lab) | The effects and potential implications of marine heat waves on biodiversity and conservation |
| Oct. 26 | Dr. Robin Naidoo (Lead Scientist, WWF-US) | The effects of COVID-19 on conservation |
| Nov.2 | Lindsay Knezevich (Fisheries Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada) | NETWORKING NOVEMBER |
| Nov. 9 | Nathan Cardinal (Senior Advisor, Indigenous Relations, Nature Conservancy of Canada) | NETWORKING NOVEMBER |
| Nov. 16 | Chelsea Nerpio (Environmental Control Technician at District of North Vancouver) | NETWORKING NOVEMBER |
| Nov. 23 | Dr. Dawn O’Neal (Vice President National Audubon Society and Executive Director Audubon Delta) | NETWORKING NOVEMBER |
| Nov. 30 | Richard Pither (Environment and Climate Change Canada) | NETWORKING NOVEMBER |
| Dec. 7 | Drew Bondar (Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust) | Restoration: Ecosystem Engineering |
Winter 2021
| Date | Name(s) and Pronoun(s) | Topic |
| Jan. 19 | Jared Grummer, He/Him | Connecting with Nature |
| Feb. 2 | Victoria Hemming (Postdoc in Tara Martin’s lab) Sierra Sullivan (PhD student in Rick Taylor’s lab) Jacqueline Huard (MSc student in Tara Martin’s lab) | Cultural Gaps Between Academia and Industry/Government |
| Feb. 9 | Madison Stevens (PhD student in IRES) | Issues of Human Rights in Conservation |
| Feb. 23 | Natasha Klasios (MSc student, Tseng lab, Zoology) | Plastic pollution and conservation: a focus on understanding the diversity of plastic pollution and its ecological effects |
| March 9 | Chelsea Gowton (PhD student, LFS) | Microbial Conservation |
| March 23 | Harold Eyster (PhD student, IRES, Chan Lab) | Changing Human Perspective on Conservation |
| April 6 | Alys Granados (Post Doc, Forestry, Cole Burton’s Lab) | Implications of Human-Wildlife Conflict in Conservation |
| April 20 | Jordy Kersey (PhD student, LFS, Sean Smukler’s Lab) | Linkages Between Ecosystem Services and Human Health Goals with Soil Science |
| April 27 | CDG Facilitators and Conservation Science Initiative Coordinators | Happy Hour CDG |
Fall 2020
| Date | Name(s) and Pronoun(s) | Topic |
| Sep. 17 | CDG Organizers | Conservation Across Scales |
| Sep. 24 | Sara Cannon | Anti-racism in ocean sciences |
| Oct. 1 | Melanie Dickie | Adaptive Management |
| Oct. 8 | A collection of BRC graduate students, postdocs, and faculty | BRC Conservation Spotlight Part I |
| Oct. 15 | CDG Organizers | Continuation of conservation in the BRC discussion |
| Oct. 22 | Fiona Beaty (she/her) | Reconciliation for biologists in Canada |
| Oct. 29 | Jacob Usinowicz | Connecting ecological theory and conservation |
| Nov. 5 | Gaurav Singh-Varma and Angella Brennan | Ecological Connectivity |
| Nov. 12 | Jared Grummer | Genetic rescue and the conservation of isolated populations |
| Nov. 19 | A collection of BRC graduate students, postdocs, and faculty | BRC Conservation Spotlight Part II |
| Nov. 26 | ||
| Dec. 3 | ||
| Dec. 10 | ||
| Dec. 17 | CDG Organizers | End of term wrap-up |
Winter 2020
| Date | Name(s) and Pronoun(s) | Topic |
| Jan. 14 | CDG Organizers | Case study – implementing our own recommendations |
| Jan. 21 | Claire Kremen | Socio-ecology hiring cluster |
| Jan. 28 | Victoria Hemming | Overcoming bias in expert and guest speaker selection: Developing a database of conservation researchers. |
| Feb. 4 | Amy Liu (she/her) | Science & our Privileges |
| Feb. 11 | ||
| Feb. 18 | Kim Girling | Evidence for Democracy |
| Feb. 25 | Victoria Hemming, Abbey Camaclang | Decision science- what is it and how can graduate conservation scientists better understand and use it in their research. |
| March 3 | ||
| March 10 | Jessica Dempsey | Subsidizing extinction |
| March 17 | ||
| March 24 | Jordan Rosenfeld (he/him) | Translating research to management decisions |
| March 31 | ||
| April 7 | Alana Westwood – NRCAN | Making research actionable for conservation: A guide to coproducing ecological research in a framework of reconciliation and community consent. |
| April 14 | CDG Organizers | End of term wrap-up |
Fall 2019
| Date | Name(s) | Topic | |
| Sept. 19 | CDG Organizers | — | |
| Sept. 26 | CDG Organizers | — | Science in the public eye; climate change |
| Oct. 3 | Sara Cannon | secanno@gmail.com | Decolonizing Research |
| Oct. 10 | Sara Cannon | secanno@gmail.com | Capitalism and Neoliberalism in conservation |
| Oct. 17 | Carla Di Fillipo | carla.difilippo@alumni.ubc.ca | Privatized Conservation: can it be good? |
| Oct. 24 | Sally Otto | otto@zoology.ubc.ca | The legislation of protecting biodiversity in British Columbia |
| Oct. 31 | Sara cannon | secanno@gmail.com | Non-monetary motivations in Conservation |
| Nov. 7 | Kai Chan | kaichan@ires.ubc.ca | The new face of ecosystem services? Or a fundamental ideological divide? |
| Nov. 14 | Chelsea Little | little@zoology.ubc.ca | Land sharing/sparing |
| Nov. 21 | Carla Di Fillipo | carla.difilippo@alumni.ubc.ca | The role of animal welfare and ethics in conservation |
| Nov. 28 | Evan Morien | morien@zoology.ubc.ca | More on capital vs. nature (plus alternatives) |
| Dec. 5 | Chelsea Gowton | cmgowton@gmail.com | Microbial Conservation |
| Dec. 12 | CDG Organizers | — | Prep. for next term |
Winter 2019
| Week | Date | Cluster | Topic | Name |
| 1 | Jan 10 | Perceptions, Values, and Motivations (PVM) | Conservation, academia and public policy | ALL |
| 2 | Jan 17 | PVM | Values, trade-offs, politics and markets | Hugh Scorah |
| 3 | Jan 24 | PVM | Conservation Economics | Frederik Noack & Sumeet Gulati |
| 4 | Jan 31 | PVM | Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services | Matt Whalen |
| 5 | Feb 7 | PVM | Government action to preserve endangered species | Rob De Wreede and Jeannette Whitton |
| 6 | Feb 14 | PVM | Trade-offs among multiple ecosystem services Debrief: conclusions, synthesis, and actions | Ira Sutherland |
| 7 | Feb 21 | READING | WEEK | NO |
| 8 | Feb 28 | Knowledge Systems | Theory of metabolic rift | Evan Morien |
| 9 | March 7 | Knowledge Systems | MPAs, Fisheries, and Communities for Conservation | Lindsay Davidson |
| 10 | March 14 | Knowledge Systems | BC First Nations | Jared Grummer |
| Week | Date | Cluster | Topic | Name |
| 11 | March 21 | Knowledge Systems | Traditional vs. Institutional Conservation Practices in India | Keerthikrutha Seetharam |
| 12 | March 28 | Synthesis: Perceptions, Values, and Knowledge | Career choices and returns of ‘mixed-strategy’ of investment in empirical and theoretical ecology | Peter Arcese |
| 13 | April 4 | Synthesis | UBC Farm/Stadium Road Development and discussions with Musqeuam peoples | Hannah Wittman & Claire Cullen |
| 14 | April 11 | Synthesis | Caribou conservation and TEK | Jean Polfus |
| 15 | April 18 | Synthesis |
Fall 2018
| Date | Theme | Name/Lab | Topic | Snacks |
| Sept 27 | Process | Robert de Wreede | Stakeholders in Marine Conservation | Chelsea Gowton |
| Oct 3 | Sustainability, Food Security | Rachel Mazac Chelsea Gowton | Land and Food Systems | Fiona |
| Oct 11 | Integration | Dr. Nathan Bennett | Fields of conservation science and the role of humanities | |
| Oct 18 | New Frontiers | Madison Stevens | Metrics/Social efficacy/tradeoffs | |
| Oct 25 | Integration | Emily A., Sarah Joy, Fiona B. | Integration of fundamental ecological research with management and restoration—seagrass example | |
| Nov 1 | Stefanie Lane | Riparian forest management and riparian | ||
| Nov 8 | New Frontiers | Dr. Peter Arcese | Optimizing the conservation of migratory species over their full annual range | |
| Nov 15 | Outreach | Emilie and Darwin | Overview of methods in outreach (flagship species) | |
| Nov 22 | Food Security and Sustainability | Chelsea Gowton | Working lands and food production | |
| Nov 29 | New Frontiers | Mairin | Conservation triage and decision making | |
| Dec 6 | Integration | Jared and Pirmin | Conservation genetics | |
| Dec 13 | Synthesis | ALL | TERM 1 SYNTHESIS: DIRECTIONS, THEMES, COLLABORATIONS | Sarah Joy |