Maritime Awards Society of Canada

The MASC Fellow for 2014/2015 at the University of Victoria is Jackson Chu. His webpage can be found here.

The latest MASC Fellow at the University of Victoria is PhD Candidate Nathalie Forget. Her webpage can be found here.

As a Friend of the Victoria Foundation, the Maritime Awards Society is pleased to bring to your attention a link to this year’s Victoria’s Vital Signs^®, the fifth anniversary edition of the report that measures the vitality of our city, identifies significant trends and assigns grades in eleven issue areas deemed critical to our quality of life.

Through this annual community snapshot, the Victoria Foundation hopes to stimulate discussion, debate and action by underscoring the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in our region.  The hope is that you are inspired and motivated by what you read and see so that we can work together as a community to address them.

Over the past four years, Vital Signs has provided important information that has increased our understanding of our community. The Victoria Foundation continues to connect donors to needs and opportunities, making impactful grants and convening people on issues of importance.

If you would like further information on Victoria’s Vital Signs^®, please contact the Victoria Foundation office at 250.381.5532.

Call for Proposals 2010: Collaborative Coastal Research

Proposals are invited from qualified individuals to undertake collaborative research projects that focus on understanding and implementing aspects of sustainable development in coastal areas. Specifically, the Robin Rigby Trust provides support to (1) Canadians travelling overseas, and (2) non-Canadians travelling to Canada, in both cases to undertake coastal research that involves collaboration with appropriate coastal communities, coastal research organizations, and/or coastal-focused non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (more…)

Northern Scientific Training Program

The purpose of the Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) is to support Canadian universities in providing training that gives advanced and graduate students the opportunity to gain professional experience in the Canadian North and encourages them to develop a commitment to northern work. The Program objective is to increase the number of graduate and other advanced students within Canadian universities who have specialized in some aspects of northern studies and who have northern research experience. For more information on the NSTP program visit: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nstp/index-eng.asp

(For UVic students: The University of Victoria has received the 2009-2010 NSTP application package from Indian and Northern Affairs. The UVic Northern Studies Committee has established an internal application deadline of November 1, 2009, to ensure there is sufficient time to compile the applications and forward them to Ottawa.)

Note that the NSTP forms are fully interactive and available on-line. The following provides access to the forms and links to the student manual.

Northern Scientific Training Program Electronic Forms http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nth/st/nstp/electro-eng.asp

Northern Scientific Training Program Student’s Manual 2009-2010 PDF format http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept/north/manual.pdf

The Maritime Awards Society of Canada Graduate Fellowship at the University of Victoria has been renamed the Commander Peter Chance MASC Graduate Fellowship.  This change of name, to honour the founder of the Maritime Awards Society of Canada, Commander Peter G. Chance, was approved by the Board of Governors and the membership at the Annual General Meeting of the Society on December 15, 2008. (more…)