November 23, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speakers: FuturAgua Team (Tim McDaniels, Douw Steyn, and others) plus poster session in AERL Lobby afterwards

IRES Seminar Series

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday)

Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall

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The FuturAgua project: Fostering regional drought resilience in Northwestern Costa Rica through international collaborative action research.

The FuturAgua project is an international, multidisciplinary, action-oriented research program involving three teams of researchers,funded by granting agencies in three countries, all focused on applied research to help build resilience to drought in the dry tropical northwest part of Costa Rica. The project was conceptualized, developed, and carried out in close collaboration with civil society groups and regional agencies that work to address important water questions in the region. This presentation will address the context, design, process, and key findings of the research conducted by UBC researchers,with input from the team members at Carnegie Mellon University. National University of Costa Rica professor Andrea Suarez will provide regional perspectives on the project. The researchers will highlight some of the factors that led to the main successes of the project, and also reflect on some of the challenges of conducting a research project of this kind.

After the seminar, there will be a poster session to showcase the project’s main research findings. Lunch will be served (RSVP required)

This seminar will not be filmed.

Click here for poster.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory Building

2202 Main Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus

Vancouver

 

Research Seminar: 12:30-1:30pm, AERL Theatre (room 120)

Poster Session + Lunch: 1:30-2:30pm, AERL Foyer

RSVP required for lunch: futuraguaproject@gmail.com

 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS 

 

Tim McDaniels

Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning

Douw Steyn

Professor Emeritus, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS)

Mark Johnson

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and EOAS

Kai Chan

Professor, IRES

 

INTERNATIONAL GUEST 

 

Andrea Suarez

Director of the Centre for Mesoamerica for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE), National University of Costa Rica

 

RESEARCHERS

 

Silja Hund

PhD Student EOAS

Laura Morillas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow IRES and EOAS

Paige Olmsted

Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Visiting Fellow Copenhagen Business School

Alejandra Echeverri

PhD Student IRES

Daniel Karp

Former Killam Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology UC Davis

 

Click here for poster.

Photo credit: Fran Kimmelman-Finn from flickr/Creative Commons