UBCV
March 21, 2026, 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm
Climate Change and Climate Policy: A Canadian Forest Ecologists Perspective
with Dr. Catherine Potvin, Emeritus College Patricia Merivale Visitor in Residence at Green College, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forest (Tier 1), Department of Biology, McGill University
Dr. Potvin is a distinguished tropical forest ecologist whose research advances understanding of carbon dynamics, biodiversity, and community-based climate solutions. With decades of fieldwork in Panama and Latin America, her work has shaped international climate policy, including through her service as a UN climate change negotiator for Panama. She has published more than 100 scientific articles in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and Global Change Biology. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she was the first woman to receive its Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. Dr. Potvin leads Sustainable Canada Dialogues, a national network of scholars developing climate action policy, and is a Trottier Fellow at the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy.
New Time: Saturdays at 7:15 p.m.
Location: Hall #2, P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver
Admission: Free – No registration required. Lectures are delivered in person only (not live-streamed)
Building Access: After-hours entrances to the P.A. Woodward building are marked on this map.
Parking: Accessible parking is available at the Health Sciences Parkade, 2250 Health Sciences Mall.
Please note: The ticket machine is located at the south entrance of the parkade. There is no ticket machine at the north entrance.
This event is in person, and it will not be live-streamed. The recording will be posted at a later date here: https://archives.library.ubc.ca/lists/vancouver-institute-lectures/
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Read our interview with Dr. Potvin "Leading Canadian climate scientist to grace UBC in March".