Happy New Year, IBioS Community!

On behalf of IBioS, welcome back, and we hope you had a restful and rejuvenating break.

Thank you to Dr. David Hardisty, who is taking on the role of Interim Director of IBioS for the next six months while Dr. Claire Kremen is on sabbatical.

UBC Geography Colloquium Series Winter 2026 Term 2

Recommended by IBioS Member Dr. Juanita Sundberg, the UBC Department of Geography is hosting a colloquium series on Environmental Justice and the Indigenous Governance of Introduced Species.

Details: Selected Tuesdays from January 20th - April 7th | Geography Building, UBC Vancouver Campus

Link to the schedule & details here. 

SFU Fish School Event

Recommended by IBioS Member Dr. Don Carruthers Den Hoed, this event will feature a screening of “Stories We Have Earned: The Stoney Nakoda Film Project” (Canada, 2024, Director: Cody Lefthand) and talks by Indigenous fishing experts.

Details: Wednesday, January 21st | 9:30 - 4:00 PM | Halpern 126, SFU Burnaby Campus 

Link to details about this event here.

Research by Juan Diego Martinez and IBioS Member Dr. Navin Ramankutty suggests that meeting the Paris Agreement’s 2°C warming limit will require dramatic reductions in food-related emissions for billions of people, but the burden falls very unevenly across the globe.

The work was highlighted here:

• The Asia Business Daily: Will Beef Change Humanity's Future? Warning: "The Whole World Must Change"
• StudyFinds: How Just A Small Share Of The World Drives Most Food-Related Emissions

Can the answer to future flooding be found in resurrecting an ancient lake?

This article features commentary from IBioS Member Dr. Tara Martin and discusses plans to bring part of the ancient Sumas Lake back to life following the recent floods in Abbotsford on the territory of the Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation in British Columbia while uncovering the economic, political, and social implications which come with the restoration.     

Read the full article here.

Transforming economic and environmental sustainability through bamboo: a systematic review

Journal: Advances in Bamboo Science, Open Access

Article by IBioS Member Dr. Anil Shestha and colleagues.