Acknowledgements
Project team
This open educational resource was created by the FRST 232 OER project team, supported by the UBC OER Fund Affordability Grant.
| Role | Team member | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Applicant | Dr. Suborna Ahmed | Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
| Co-Applicant | Dr. Ehsan Karim | Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC |
| Team Member | Sophie Huang | Undergraduate Student, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UBC |
| Team Member | Rebecca McCracken | Undergraduate Student, Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
| Team Member | Rachel Lim | Graduate Student, Forest Resources Management Department, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
| Team Member | Libby Taylor-Manning | Graduate Student, Forest Resources Management Department, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
| Team Member | Michelle Zeng | Associate Director, Teaching and Learning Support, Dean’s Office, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
| Team Member | Dr. Stella Acquah | Senior Research Scientist, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, UBC |
Funding and support
This OER project was supported by the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship. I gratefully acknowledge the support of Dr. Robert Kozak, Dr. Sarah Gergel, and Jill Yu. I am especially grateful to Dr. Sarah Gergel for her enormous encouragement and valuable suggestions, which helped move forward the modernization of FRST 232 and the development of this open educational resource.
Open data and open source
We acknowledge Environmental Reporting BC, the Government of British Columbia, the Government of Ontario, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and the Columbia Shuswap Regional District for publishing the forestry and natural-resources datasets used throughout this book under open government licences — making genuine learning with real data possible. (See the Datasets Used in This Book page for full sources and download links.)
We also thank the open-source community — the authors and maintainers of R, RStudio, Quarto, the tidyverse, sf, leaflet, and the many supporting packages — whose work makes this resource possible.
Learners and reviewers
We thank the FRST 232 learners (and the coming FRST 531 cohort) whose feedback shaped this resource, and the reviewers whose comments improved the curriculum and the open datasets behind it.