BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Raincoast - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.raincoast.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Raincoast
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Vancouver
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241009T213000
DTSTAMP:20241007T181546Z
CREATED:20241007T172028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T181546Z
UID:97703-1728500400-1728509400@www.raincoast.org
SUMMARY:Nerdnite talks with Auston Chhor\, Alice Murage\, and Martin Austwick
DESCRIPTION:Nerd Nite v54: Salmon\, Work Effects on Health\, and Songs About Science \n\n\n\nCome to Nerd Nite v54! What do salmon\, work effects on health\, and songs about science have in common? We wanted to learn about them so they’re next up for the first of two Fall Nerd Nites coming your way! Tickets as always go fast\, so get in here! \n\n\n\nGet your tickets!\n\n\n\n\n\nAuston Chhor – Salmon\n\n\n\nThe Creekwalkers. They may sound like a breed of moss-covered swamp monsters who are seeking revenge against a mining company for draining their wetland\, but they’re actually a ragtag team of bug-bitten biologists who’ve survived for weeks on a tiny island with nothing more than muffins\, canned soup\, and baloney sandwiches. Their mission? To use the latest technology (their eyeballs) to count the salmon run in 15 creeks in Haíɫzaqv Territory. Join me as I recount the soggy month I spent as a creekwalker\, explain why creekwalking is important\, and share my tips on how to eat lunch when you’re surrounded by piles of dead rotting fish. \n\n\n\nAuston Chhor (he/him) is a salmon habitat biologist at Raincoast Conservation Foundation. He holds a BSc from Queen’s University where he studied what happens to fish habitat when cottagers develop shorelines\, and received an MSc. for studying what happens to fish when those same cottagers catch them for fun. He moved out west with a dream of becoming a “typical BC boy” and spends his free time trying his best to do so. \n\n\n\nAlice Murage – Work effects on health\n\n\n\nAs part of her PhD\, Alice did some digging on what others have written about the connections between work and health. She found a lot of research and policies that address classic occupational safety such as exposure to hazardous materials and physical injuries in the workplace. She also found growing literature on connections between precarious or insecure work and psychological wellbeing that in turn contribute to physical illness.Many workers experience a fight or flight biological responses to stressful work conditions. In our evolution\, this response was critical for our survival. Now\, work can biologically and psychologically be experienced as a lion we need to fight or flee from. This creates a cascade of hormone production that negatively affects our health. In her talk\, Alice will share the psychological\, biological\, life course\, materialist\, and structural explanations of how our work might be affecting our health. \n\n\n\nAlice Mũrage is a research fellow and PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University\, Faculty of Health Sciences. She uses research as a tool to promote social and health equity. Her PhD research aims at understanding experiences of Black healthcare workers who work under conditions of limited job security\, control\, protections\, compensation and/or support in British Columbia\, and how their work conditions affect their health. Under the background of the current healthcare workforce crisis\, Alice hopes to inform equitable workplace and provincial response policies. \n\n\n\nMartin Austwick – Songs about science\n\n\n\nMartin will bring his songs about science to Nerd Nite\, in his capacity as the Lower Mainland’s most English science music songwriter. \n\n\n\nBio:Martin Austwick (he/him) is a singer-songwriter\, musician and podcaster (The Allusionist). Prior to running away to join the circus\, he got a doctorate in Physics and Materials from Oxford University\, and worked in Medical Physics\, and later Urban Data Visualization. In 2023 he moved to the city voted 2nd most important boba city in the world (2015) and hasn’t looked back.
URL:https://www.raincoast.org/event/nerdnite-talks-with-auston-chhor-more/
LOCATION:Fox Cabaret\, 2321 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.raincoast.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/nerdnite-v1.0.jpeg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR