IOF Orientation – September 2025

Please mark your calendars for the IOF Orientation sessions for academic year 2025 / 2026!

Note: More details will be coming.

Date

Time

Location

What’s happening

Who should be there
Tuesday, Sept. 2 1:00-3:30 pm Hakai Node (216) Nuts and Bolts onboarding session
This is a hands-on session, specifically for new incoming students, Research Associates, postdocs, and staff.

  • Core staff introductions
  • Onboarding
  • ANCHOR/Extended Learning
  • Grad Program overview
 Incoming students, staff, postdocs!
Wednesday, Sept. 3 1:00-3:00 pm AERL 107

More about us / ABCs of IOF

  • Land Acknowledgement;
  • Health and Safety (H&S)
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
  • IOF community
    • FISH 506Y overview
  • IOF Student Society (IOF SS)
  • UBC Sustainability
 All IOF community members invited
Friday, Sept. 5 11:00-12:00 pm AERL Theatre (120) IOF – Meet & Greet

  • History of IOF & our 10 Year Anniversary
  • IOF in the world
  • How we’re organized
  • Meet the faculty!
  • Meet the research associates!
  • Meet our new students!
 All IOF community members invited (particularly faculty, new students, who will be introduced in this session)
Friday, Sept. 5 12:00-3:00pm Hakai Node (216) IOF pizza lunch & Icebreaker session All IOF community members invited
Monday, Sept. 8 12:00-1:30pm Hakai Node (216) IOF Student Society gives overview to all IOF students IOF students
Wednesday, Sept. 10 2:00-4:00pm AERL 107 Poster session
IOF research units will be asked to create posters, discussing the work of their units, as well as their predictions based on our 10th Anniversary theme of “Reimagining the Future of Oceans and Fisheries.”

(Units must pick up poster paper and pens on afternoon of Friday, September 5th from Katherine Came’s office (Rm. 233)

All IOF community members invited. Research unit members and PIs strongly suggested
Friday, Sept. 12 1:00-3:00pm AERL Foyer IOF Welcome (Back) BBQ! All IOF community members invited.

Other Activities

Date

Time

Location

What’s happening
Tuesday, Sept. 16 all day Chilliwack Lake FISH 520 Field trip
Students in FISH 520 will be taking a field trip to Chilliwack Lake, guided by Dr. Jordan Rosenfeld, Aquatic Scientist, Applied Freshwater Fisheries Research Unit (AFERU), in order to observe the natural habitat of local Pacific salmon species.

As in past, this will be open to all IOF students, staff, faculty, researchers, or post-docs who want to come on this field trip. Details about signing up to come.