Living Data Project

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About

In an age of global change, historical data is invaluable in allowing us to track and predict the threat to our ecosystems. However, this data is itself prone to extinction. The Living Data Project is a nationwide initiative to preserve and breathe new life into legacy datasets in ecology, evolution and environmental science, and to train graduate students in best practices in data management, reproducible research, synthesis statistics and scientific collaboration. We organize data archiving internships, student-dominated working groups, undergraduate hackathons, multi-university courses, and a national certificate program.

Certificates

Internships

working groups

Click here to know more about our certificate program.

Click here to know more about our internships and how to apply as an intern or as a host.

Click here to know more about our working groups and how to apply.

Organizers

Diane Srivastava

CIEE Director; Professor, Zoology,
University of British Columbia

Mary O’Connor

CIEE Deputy Director; Associate Professor, Zoology, University of British Columbia

Kelly Haller

CIEE and LDP Program Coordinator,
University of British Columbia

Sally Taylor

Head Librarian, Woodward Library; Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia

Kerri Finlay

Director Inst. of Environmental Change & Society; Associate Professor, Biology, University of Regina

Raymond Ng

Director Data Science Institute; Professor,
Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Jason Pither

Co-lead Fostering Open Science at UBC;
Associate Professor, Biology, UBC Okanagan

Jennifer Sunday

William Dawson Scholar & Assistant Professor, Biology, McGill University

Laura Pollock

Assistant Professor, Biology, McGill University

Timothée Poisot

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences,
Université de Montréal

Sandra Binning

Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair, Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal

Dominique Roche

Marie Curie Global Fellow,
Carleton University & Université de Neuchâtel

Rachel Germain

Assistant Professor, Zoology,
University of British Columbia

Bob Montgomery

Professor Emeritus, Biology, Queen's University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Gracielle Higino

University of British Columbia

Samantha Straus

McGill University & Université de Montréal

Mike Lavender

University of Regina

Fall 2020 cohort

Pilot Projects

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The Living Data Project is committed to the principles of inclusive, supportive and respectful interactions between project participants, including trainees, instructors and researchers from partner organizations. By participating in any Living Data Project activities, including courses, internships and working groups, you agree to:

Respect and value the contribution of participants with different lived experience and perspectives, recognizing that people can respectfully differ on many different topics.
Provide space for others to contribute ideas and questions, recognizing that the onus is on people who find it easy to claim such space to be the first to relinquish it.
Work to actively include other participants, realizing that many marginalized groups can be excluded – even unintentionally - without conscious effort.
Arrive with the assumption that all participants have good intentions.
Never, ever, ever, engage in harassing or discriminatory behaviour and understand that such behaviour may lead to your removal from the program.
Whoever violates these rules will be asked to stop immediately, and if inappropriate behaviour persists, procedures laid out by the the member’s home institution will take place.

To report an issue you can contact ciee-icee@biodiversity.ubc.ca or do it anonymously through this form.

Review history deposited here.

land acknowledgement

The Living Data Project (LDP) is a collaborative initiative by researchers at institutions across Canada: University of British Columbia-Vancouver, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, University of Regina, McGill University, and Université de Montréal. We acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional, ancestral, treaty, and unceded territories of many Indigenous peoples, including the Coast Salish Peoples, xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Syilx (Okanagan), nêhiyawak (Cree), anihšināpēk (Saulteaux), Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, Attawanderon, Mississaugas, kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk), and Haudenosaunee, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation.

We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Cette recherche a été financée par le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG).

We acknowledge the support of this research project the by the University of British Columbia, the Université de Montréal, the University of Regina, and McGill University.