Heather and Nicole had a fun week at UBC at the CIEE-UBC workshop on improving forecasts of species range shifts to climate change led by Heather and Jenn Williams (UBC).

Congratulations to Honours students Nicole and Jenna for doing a FANTASTIC job on their posters for Honours Poster Day 2024!

Heather and our artist-in-residence, Valérie Chartrand presented their Art-Science collaboration about insect declines at the SCI_ART symposium at the SAW centre in Ottawa. 

Congrats to former PhD student Steph Rivest on publishing her final PhD paper!
Click to read key findings.

Over reading week, Heather spent time an amazing group of conservation scientists in Conguillío National Park, Chile. As part of the Andina VI workshop, they gathered together to figure out how we can have a bigger impact in society, and involving the climate change and biodiversity crises.

A great initiative! The Science Student Association is running a competition for a science student to design a mural for the Biosciences complex on campus related to the theme of "Science and Society". Deadline is Feb 28 2024 to apply. Details here

We are starting a new phase of our collaboration with Valérie Chartrand, a local visual artist. The first phase of the project is supported by Artengine. Stay tuned!

Sarah is presenting her work at the International Biogeography Society in Prague.

A new blog post by Katherine about her field experiment on monarchs.

The lab has finally joined Instagram! Find us here: https://www.instagram.com/kharouba_lab/