In 2017, UBC’s departments of EOAS and Geography embarked on an ambitious partnership with the University of Central Asia (UCA) to design, develop and transfer a 22-course curriculum making up UCA’s new undergraduate B.Sc. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) focusing on issues of importance to mountain societies.

In 2014, UBC’s Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics and Astronomy departments received generous funding from the Harris family to pilot paired teaching as a follow-up to the CWSEI (see above). During the project, 27 instructors across these two departments taught 18 courses to over 2,500 students in the pilot program, and research was disseminated through several scholarly publications.

In 2007, EOAS became the first department in UBC’s Faculty of science to be approved for the 7 year Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). The aim was to increase the effectiveness of post-secondary science education for all undergraduate students taking courses offered by our Department.

The EaSEIL project aims to create space for collaborative reflection among students, instructors, staff, and community members to reimagine, develop, and transform field-based experiential learning across multiple programs, departments and Faculties at UBC.

This project aims to engage and partner with Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students in UBC Science to learn more about their experiences, needs, and desires with respect to curriculum, pedagogy, research, educational programming, and advising.

This project aims to support Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) efforts across UBC Science (and beyond) by developing an assessment toolkit that can be used by instructors or units to determine whether students are reporting a greater understanding of how Indigenous topics intersect with their field of study in Science.

The Quantitative Earth Sciences Transformation initiative seeks to transform and modernize quantitative Earth sciences education at UBC.