<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Chelsea Little</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:0000a81d3de8e7a7-dmarc-request@lists.ubc.ca">0000a81d3de8e7a7-dmarc-request@lists.ubc.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM<br>Subject: PhD or Postdoc fellowship in British Columbia<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ITEX-LIST@lists.ubc.ca">ITEX-LIST@lists.ubc.ca</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi ITEX-ers,</div><div><br></div><div>Canada has a new funding program aiming to recruit PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, called IMPACT+. Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe and I are interested in recruiting someone to nominate for one of these fellowships to work in British Columbia. Eligibility is limited to those residing outside of Canada: either non-Canadian citizens, or Canadians who currently reside abroad. If this describes you, read on! </div><div><br></div>The candidate would have the chance to lead work at the ITEX alpine sites in Garibaldi Park, including every-other-year quadrat surveys in OTC’s and control plots, and potential additional research directions to be developed by the candidate. This aspect would be embedded in the Alpine Horizons project (<a href="https://alpinehorizons.ca" target="_blank">https://alpinehorizons.ca</a>). At the same time, the candidate would develop a global synthesis of the relative impact of climate change on alpine and arctic systems using the ITEX datasets. Questions of interest may include importance of the length of the growing season in contrast to growing degree days as well as different impacts of the experimental design in alpine and arctic ecosystems.<br> <br>The candidate would be hosted at Simon Fraser University (<a href="http://www.sfu.ca" target="_blank">www.sfu.ca</a>) and co-supervised by Chelsea Little (<a href="http://www.littleecologygroup.ca" target="_blank">www.littleecologygroup.ca</a>) and Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe at the University of Victoria (<a href="https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/sellab/" target="_blank">https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/sellab/</a>). <div><br></div><div>This position is conditional on the candidate receiving special NSERC funding for candidates (Canadian and non-Canadian) currently based outside of Canada. Program information here: (<a href="https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/launch-new-canada-impact-research-training-awards" target="_blank">https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/launch-new-canada-impact-research-training-awards</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Interested candidates should contact Chelsea Little at <a href="mailto:chelsea_little@sfu.ca" target="_blank">chelsea_little@sfu.ca</a> before January 30th and, if selected, will be expected to submit an NSERC application soon after.<br> <br>Please share widely, and reply to me if you are interested in learning more about the opportunity.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Chelsea (and Noémie)</div></div>
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