When Prof. Roland Stull designed his first-year course in Earth and Ocean Sciences, The Catastrophic Earth: Natural Disasters, he assembled a team of experts so that students could learn the science behind storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunami and landslides -- and their social ramifications -- from top researchers at UBC.
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The Lost Forests of Afghanistan
This month, Assoc. Prof. Gary Bull from UBC’s Faculty of Forestry is spending time in Kabul training an Afghan field crew.
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UBC Climate Change Experts Help Create First Carbon Neutral Airline
Offsetters Climate Neutral Society, founded by two UBC professors, is helping the airline industry to reduce its impact on the environment through carbon offsets, a method for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Fishing for Trouble
Can the World Trade Organization (WTO) put a stop to harmful fishing practices largely driven by government subsidies that top US$35 billion each year?
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Let Your Fingers Do the Singing
UBC researchers have created a new system that translates hand gestures to speech using a computerized glove.
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Car Sharing Comes to UBC Students
Steve Jones remembers the day he snapped. He was traveling to the outskirts of Vancouver, like so many other days, to purchase materials for engineering projects and transport them back to UBC.
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A Crime Called Genocide
Near a small town in Bosnia this summer, Adam Jones watched in the rain as a mass grave was exhumed, the remains of dozens of nameless people brought forth from the sodden earth.
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