Seminar Videos

March 28, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Katie Fiorella


This talk will use the case of Cambodia's social-ecological food systems to examine how rapid changes in social-ecological systems are affecting the people who live and work within these systems. Read More

March 21, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Joanne Fitzgibbons and Imranul Laskar


Talk titles: 1. Rewilding as a Plural Boundary Object: Implications for Research and Practice 2. Characterizing uncertainties in the decarbonization of maritime shipping: an expert elicitation study Read More

February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi


Talk titles: 1) Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia 2) Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data Read More

February 15, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Ta Phurisamban and Jade Radke


Talk titles: 1. When Indigenous and Western sciences collide: re-storying/restoring Mekong expertise through community-engaged research 2. The role of happiness in pro-environmental action Read More

February 1, 2024: Professional Development Seminar with Elder Jim Leyden


Kwekwecnewtxw Watch House Elder Jim Leyden will tell his personal stories working at the frontline, and share his perspectives on community-engaged research, and how to do it well. Read More

January 25, 2024: Faculty Seminar with Jessica Dempsey and Audrey Irvine-Broque


This talk will explore – through six case studies of extractivism in the Global South – how the organization of the international financial system influences state policy towards extractive land use change Read More

January 18, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Kushank Bajaj on Zoom only


Talk Title Transboundary climate risks of Canada’s fruit and vegetable supply Read More

December 7, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún and Jumi Gogoi (Last seminar in Term 1)


Talk titles: 1. Women+ counter-mapping hydrosocial territories: activists’ practices of knowledge co-production in the Chiloé archipelago (southern Chile) and, 2. Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data Read More

November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall


Tindall describes recent work: This study examines the perceived influence of different actors in Canada's climate change policy network just prior to the signing of the Paris Agreement. In this research, we consider the problem of addressing climate change from a policy network perspective Read More

November 23, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Jackie Lerner


This presentation will be a frank exploration of careers in environmental consulting. IRES Alumnus Dr. Jackie Lerner has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, Indigenous, provincial, territorial, and federal governments for over twenty-five years. Most of her work has related to the environmental assessment of large resource development projects in Canada: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia. Read More

November 16, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with James Connolly


How do land-use-based climate strategies reorder the local geography of risk for urban residents? In this talk, Connolly argues that the answer to this question is more complicated than the one commonly presented in public discourse. Read More

Seminar Cancelled — November 9, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Lindah Ddamba and Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas


Talk titles: 1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress, and; 2. Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia Read More

November 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Jonathan Foley


Dr. Jonathan Foley is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, and next Thursday he'll show us how the Drawdown Roadmap charts a path to accelerate climate solutions before it’s too late. Read More

October 26, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Tom Green


We're joined by the Senior Climate Policy Adviser for the David Suzuki Foundation, Tom Green! His talk will cover how the ecological economics perspective can inform education, advocacy and policy. Read More

October 12, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Giulia Belotti and Brian Wang


Talk titles: 1. Understanding debates over urban development projects: navigating sustainability, affordability, and livability issues in Vancouver’s Broadway Plan 2. Lost in Transition - Dissolved Carbon Evolution along a Pacific Maritime Headwater Stream Network Read More

October 5, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Rachel Scholes


Researchers like Dr. Rachel Scholes are increasingly worried about the negative impacts of contaminants found in road runoff, like the tire rubber byproduct 6PPD-quinone. But research is showing that urban rain gardens can help! Read More

September 28, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Danielle Barkley


IRES students ONLY are invited to professional development workshop with Dr. Danielle Barkley, a Career Educator at the UBC Career Centre. Read More

September 21, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Lori Daniels


We invite you to a talk by Dr. Lori Daniels, an expert on forest dynamics, disturbance, and wildfire regimes. Read More

September 14, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Trisa Ngo and Grace Schaan


Current IRES grad students Grace Schaan and Trisa Ngo are taking the stage this Thursday! Topics: - effects of logging and urban development on water - Saskatchewan politics and Twitter Read More

April 20, 2023: IRES Student Symposium with Rumi Naito and Josh Travers (Last Seminar in Term 2)


Two IRES students will present their research this week for the IRES Student Symposium! Read More