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Employment & Opportunities

SCMP summer program - The University of British Columbia

SCMP is a program focused on giving UBC students access to job opportunities at top consulting firms.

We've been incredibly impactful so far, with over 140 successful candidates. Our application season is gaining steam, so I was hoping that we could be included in a monthly newsletter or a direct announcement to students in The Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.

Here is some information that could be useful to students in your group:

1. Brief explanation of the program:

SCMP is an intensive 3-4 month mentorship program that aims to prepare candidates for consulting interviews and life at the firm. This includes multiple lectures, boot camps, resume reviews, and other coaching. SCMP requires a great deal of effort on the part of each participant and success in the program could lead to interviews with six or more of the top consultancies in the world.

2. A summary figure of SCMP's process (attached here)

3. Upcoming info sessions here.

4. Social media posts to share on your outlets (attached here)

We are now accepting applications and will remain open until April 9th. 

News & Events

FOSI seminar

Speaker: Sophie Roth from Auld lab will give a talk titled "Don't FRET, FLIM-FRET! Measuring protein tension in Drosophila larvae in vivo".

Timothy Wong from Nabi lab will give a talk titled " Applying dSTORM and STED Super Resolution Microscopy to investigate Caveolin and Clathrin Endocytosis".

Date & Time: March 26th at 3pm

Location: Life Science Centre (LSC) Room 1003 or Zoom

Before the talk (2:45-3 pm), Snacks and Coffee will be provided for those attending in person outside the seminar room. Please arrive before the seminar starts as food and drinks are not allowed in the room.

For those who don't know about the FOSI seminar, the FOSI seminar series was created to provide a space for everyone to exchange ideas about imaging techniques and to connect with the people who use the imaging techniques that you might need for your research.

We hope that you can join us at this month’s FOSI seminar! For more information, see our home page here.

IOF Seminar: The Deep Ocean: Out of Sight, Out of Mind and Under Pressure 

Speaker: Dr. Diva Amon

Date & Time:  March 22nd at 11am 

Location: AERL Theatre, 2202 Main Mall, UBC or Zoom

Talk Description: The deep ocean, poorly known and largely never seen by the human eye, currently represents 82% of all States’ jurisdictions and the vast majority of areas beyond national jurisdiction. An increase in technology, fascination with this unknown part of the planet, and interest in developing the Blue Economy has led to an expansion of efforts to know, understand, share, and use the global deep ocean. However, with deep-ocean ecosystems already affected by climate change, fisheries and pollution, and with new threats on the horizon, we are at a critical juncture for stewarding Earth’s deep. It is critically fragile, so careful stewardship, which is more likely to be effective when it is locally shaped and led, is needed. Despite this, barriers in capacity have led to inequitable access to the deep ocean, as well as its resources. During this presentation, accompany me on a journey into the depths, to see parts of the planet that few others have and to shine a light on the pressing fate of the deep.

RSVP here.

PCIC Pacific Climate Seminar Series: Climate Simulations at Weather Forecasting Resolution: The Benefit, Challenges, and Prospects of Kilometer-Scale Climate Modeling

Speaker: Dr. Andreas F. Prein

Date & Time:  March 20th at 2pm 

Location:  Zoom

Talk Description: The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly noticeable from year to year. Unprecedented floods, heatwaves, rapid snow and glacier loss, and severe storms are just a few consequences that cause a rising toll on the economy, humans, and our ecosystems. However, predictions and projections of these changes with state-of-the-art global climate modeling systems are erroneous and have barely improved over the last decades. Kilometer-scale (km-scale) modeling has emerged as a viable option to significantly improve our ability to simulate and project not only extremes but also the mean state of the climate system. Regional km-scale climate models have been under development for more than a decade and becoming ever more sophisticated. In this talk, I will summarize the main advances and remaining challenges in simulating the terrestrial water cycle and its extremes in various climate zones including mountains, plains, and coasts. Additionally, I will summarize ongoing international activities to advance km-scale climate modeling and highlight options to get involved in these urgently needed initiatives to provide actionable information for climate change adaption and mitigation.

For more details and register here.