UBC Campus and Community Planning: UBC Bird Friendly Design Guidelines for Buildings
Over the last year, I took on a lead role in the writing and research for the updated UBC Bird Friendly Design Guidelines for Buildings. Through research of academic studies and best practice review of municipal guidelines across North America, the update promotes cost-effective and co-beneficial strategies to designers.
Research Abroad with TUDarmstadt: Seeing Soundscapes
In Summer 2019, I had the very enriching opportunity to collaborate on urban design research at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany as a visiting research student. I conducted a study to examine the relationship between soundscapes, urban design, and mental health and produced a research poster to illustrate my findings.
UBC Campus and Community Planning: The Green Building Action Plan
From Fall 2017-2018, I had the very exciting and unique opportunity to participate in writing and researching the new UBC Green Building Action Plan (GBAP) for UBC Campus and Community Planning. The GBAP outlines goals, targets, and actions to advance academic and residential buildings at UBC towards making net positive contributions to human and natural systems by 2035.
Final Project – Safer Buildings for Birds: a GIS Analysis
Buildings are the main anthropogenic cause of death for birds in cities, with approximately 16 to 42 million deaths in Canada each year, and around 10,000 deaths at UBC. To investigate this issue as a final project in my Advanced Issues in GIS class, I created a model to identify core institutional buildings of high bird collision risk at UBC. The project aims to recommend UBC operational staff where to target bird friendly design retrofits.
UBC Learning Exchange: Teaching & Learning as an English Conversation Program Facilitator
As an English Conversation Program Facilitator, I am responsible for preparing a lesson plan and guiding discussion for ESL learners on topics selected by the Program Coordinator. While I teach speaking skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation at the Learning Exchange, I'm also always learning from the patrons I meet as we exchange stories, skills, and laughs!
My ePortfolio Journey 2016-2018
Here is a timeline of my involvement with ePortfolio making and the UBC Arts ePortfolio program starting from my 3rd year GIS class to the present! This post will be updated as I continue to collaborate with the UBC Arts ePortfolio program.
Vancouver Aquarium: Educating and Interpreting the Wonders of the Sea!
I have been a volunteer at the Vancouver Aquarium for 2 years as a Marine Educator and Gallery Educator. Find out how I engage visitors with facts and conservation takeaways about bamboo shark egg cases!
Final Project – Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery in BC
For the final project of my GEOB 372- Introduction to Cartography course, we were tasked to make a thematic map on any issue we were interested in. As a volunteer for educational programs at the Vancouver Aquarium, I decided to use my cartography skills to make an educational proportional symbol map that would summarize the current state of Oregon Spotted Frog populations and recovery programs in BC from 1998-2010.