News & Stories

We have some exciting news to share (which we hinted at on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). Yesterday we received 4 wild sheep and 1 muskox as a donation to the Museum.

Like many of us growing up on the west coast, I have fond childhood memories of exploring the rainforests of coastal British Columbia. With youthful exuberance and imagination, the forest was transformed into a playground with endless adventure waiting beyond every stone, stump and tree.

June 1, 2014, 1:00pm. Join Cheryl Chow, Post-Doctoral Fellow in UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, in learning about the microscopic, but mega-important, world within the ocean. Included with museum admission or membership.

I was part of a small group of people (along with Kai Chan of IRES and Anne Salomon of SFU) who have studied the Joint Review Panel’s report (JRPr) on the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline Project (NGP).

I just returned from the spring species assessment meeting of COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) that was held in Halifax, NS, April 24-May 2. Functioning independently from government, COSEWIC is a committee of scientists that advises the federal government on the conservation status of wildlife species in Canada under the Species at Risk Act.

UBC Herbarium research associate Dr. Terry McIntosh and I ran a workshop for Katzie First Nation Traditional Resource Specialist Roma Leon and Environmental Technician Paul James on rare plant identification.

On May 6 2014, we celebrated the fifth year of BRITE internships, with a panel discussion on careers and networking and a reception under the whale at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. BRITE or Biodiversity Research: Integrative Training and Education is an NSERC-CREATE-funded training program. For the past five years, the Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has hosted the BRITE Internship Program.

We are very pleased to announce the release of a new video to augment the “Using and contributing to Avian Collections Workshop” series. This workshop features an international roster of speakers discussing the changing uses of avian collections and demonstrating techniques to prepare and preserve specimens.

Ever since I can recall I have loved frogs. Some of my first memories were of catching frogs in the swamps and ponds of Northwestern Ontario. I think I spent whole summers doing nothing but.