Patrick Culbert

Reach out if you are interested in applying to the Liber Ero postdoctoral fellowship program. I work on caribou, wolves, invasive wild pigs, farmland moose, and a lot more.

ryan.brook@usask.ca

liberero.ca

Tariffs_v2_final_edited20250728_UseThisOne_Rev3.doc

I’m curious if both species seem to preserve similarly well in the water?

Nodding onion in bloom with an inflorescence of small pink flowers drooping toward the ground.

On the UBC campus, a patch of native plant landscaping surrounded by sidewalks.

First time I’ve ever seen nodding onion in landscaping 😊. I remember a few years ago when there was a stink because the university insisted on mowing down some fireweed (an art installation) before it went to seed, lest it establish on campus. I really appreciate the complete turnaround on this.

Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".

Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

An open-ocean scene with the dorsal fins of a mother and calf orca protruding from the water. In the background, a humpback whale tale is clearly sticking out of the water.

Sometimes a humpback whale photobombs your shot of orca mom and baby. 🤷‍♂️

A yellow extension cord, running from the charge port of an electric vehicle to a black electric tea kettle sitting on a picnic table in a campsite.

One convenient thing about camping with an EV is powering an electric kettle with the car. I’m really tempted to ditch the propane Coleman stove for an electric tabletop induction burner.

In case anyone is interested, I used the 5K Runner app and slowly built up to this over 10 weeks.

A smiling but exhausted Patrick standing outdoors in front of some ripe elderberries.

Just ran 5K for the first time in my life. (33:22 PB! 😂) I will assume the coyote pup I saw at the start of my run was a good omen.

The base of the reconciliation pole at the University, British Columbia, surrounded by wildflowers.

Close-up of various wildflowers.

The planting at the reconciliation pole is looking quite nice. Definitely prefer this over mowed grass.

The only heartening thing I’ve seen online today.

If anyone’s looking for a PhD position, I strongly recommend Tobias’s lab.

YouTube video by Patrick Culbert - UBC Forestry Snowy Day in the Coastal Temperate Rainforest of BC (CWHvm1) - 4K Drone Fly-Through

Need a momentary escape? Enjoy a snowy winter (Feb) day at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest in Maple Ridge, BC. youtu.be/v6vHMDQ0nsM

Harvey Milk served in the Navy during the Korean War, but was discharged in 1955, not for any misconduct, but because he was gay.

And now his name is being removed from a Navy vessel, once again not because of anything he did wrong, but because he was gay.

It's the same hate from the same scum.

I was having similar thoughts while in China last week.

FAFU

A brick-paved parking space with a small, 1-foot tall fire hydrant placed right in the middle.

Worst campus parking space ever.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

A street scene with a large tree growing out of a stone wall in an improbable looking manner

Close-up of the tree growing out of the wall with thick roots, spreading along the stone wall

This tree didn’t come to play. 👀

Greatly looking forward to my 12-hour layover in Hong Kong tomorrow. 😊

Course eval time. Made minimal changes in my two courses this term, evals for one improved modestly, evals for the other dropped dramatically 😕🤷‍♂️. Time for some pondering.

False Solomons seal surrounded by vetch in a disheveled looking planter

White showy blossoms of false Solomons seal.

I appreciate this false Solomon’s seal that popped up in an otherwise unkept planter on campus.

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie

Twice

VanCity “Visa Infinite Privilege” credit card

I’ll stick with my credit card for cishet white men 😂🤪.

I hear there’s going to be a big upgrade for the 2026 model year.

Groot.

Cast my first Canadian federal election ballot! 🇨🇦 (A bit disappointed there were no “I voted” stickers.)

Parker’s Obsessed with this Movie (But She Cannot Find it Anywhere) Podcast Episode · Hyperfixed · 2025-04-24 · 34m

Most of my podcasts (news-focused) are depressing at the moment. But this episode of Hyperfixed just brought me some joy.
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