Biology

Celine Edwards is this year's Pushor Mitchell LLP Gold Medal Leadership Prize winner.

Top student award goes to UBCO cancer researcher and rural health care advocate

By Patty Wellborn on June 5, 2019

It’s been a dream of Celine Edwards for as long as she can remember—to attend medical school at UBC and improve healthcare delivery for rural populations.

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UBC Okanagan sustainability researcher Lael Parrott, report editor and contributor

Do our mountains matter?

By Christine Zeindler on May 28, 2019

New reporting led by UBC researchers is examining how changing conditions of Canada’s mountainous regions may impact the rest of the country.

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After a multi-year study on four different crop fields found there could be environmental consequences of adding bio-fertilizers to soil.

Do additives help the soil?

By Patty Wellborn on May 1, 2019

A UBC researcher is using her latest study to question whether soil additives are worth their salt.

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Miranda Hart, associate professor of biology in the Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences.

UBC earth scientist offers gardening tip

By Patty Wellborn on April 18, 2019

Miranda Hart digs dirt. The biology professor in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences is a researcher and naturalist who has dedicated her career to studying microbes in soil. Specifically, she investigates how soil biodiversity helps ecosystems function, and what happens when we destroy this life in our soils.

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UBC experts discuss Earth Day relevant research. Photo credit: Lael Parrott

Experts Advisory: Earth Day, 49 years later

By Christine Zeindler on April 17, 2019

Almost 50 years ago, millions gathered to protest the negative impacts of industry and development on the world. Since then, the tradition has continued with Earth Day, a global celebration that is recognized by more than one billion people in 192 countries. It is a day of civic and political action to focus on environmental issues such as biodiversity, sustainability, pollution, climate change and clean energy.

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During photosynthesis, plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere. At the same time, the decomposition of dead plant tissue by soil organisms, including bacteria, fungi, earthworms, ants and others, produce CO2 and release it back into the atmosphere.

UBC researchers explore an often ignored source of greenhouse gas

By Nathan Skolski on February 21, 2019

In a new study from UBC’s Okanagan campus, researchers have discovered a surprising new source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emmissions—bicarbonates hidden in the lake water used to irrigate local orchards.

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When it comes to freshwater availability, more than 75 per cent of the world’s total water supply is found in only three countries—China, Canada and Russia.

Think big—at least when it comes to global conservation

By Nathan Skolski on February 8, 2019

According to a group of international researchers, the potential contributions large countries have to protect the environment are being overlooked.

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Is it a bobcat or a lynx? Even experts, when using publicly-submitted images, have trouble telling the two wildcats apart. Photo credit: James Gagnon.

Copy cats: When is a bobcat not a bobcat?

By Patty Wellborn on January 23, 2019

When is a bobcat not a bobcat?

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Lonesome George was the famed last representative of a giant tortoise species once found on the Galapagos island of Pinta

Giant tortoise provides insights into longevity and age-related disease

By Nathan Skolski on December 11, 2018

Ever since Darwin’s first steps on the Galapagos Islands, understanding the adaptations that offer the giant tortoise its extended lifespan has been a tantalizing scientific pursuit.

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UBC Okanagan Professor Soheil Mahmoud (second from left) teaches students in a small lavender field on the Okanagan campus.

UBC researchers dig to get to the root of lavender’s secrets

By Patty Wellborn on October 11, 2018

A team of researchers, including UBC’s Soheil Mahmoud, have recently sequenced the genome of lavender.

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