New IRES Adjuct Professor – Rustam Sengupta
We are please to welcome Rustam Sengupta as a new IRES Adjunct Professor! BIO: Rustam Sengupta is a renewable energy entrepreneur, impact investor and subject matter expert with extensive research experience of over a decade in sustainable social enterprise design, rooftop solar and renewable energy access. He has an expertise in identifying, designing and analysing strategies that […]
Mark Johnson and Kai Chan win 2017 UBC Faculty Research Awards
IRES faculty members Mark Johnson and Kai Chan are recipients of 2017 UBC Faculty Research Awards! UBC water sustainability expert Mark Johnson has been awarded the university’s Charles A. McDowell award for excellence in pure or applied scientific research by a young faculty member. Kai Chan was selected for a UBC Killam Research Fellowship. Winners of Faculty […]
June- August 2018: Upcoming Workshops at the UBC Farm
The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of British Columbia is excited to announce that registration for the first half of our 2018 workshop series is now open! The UBC Farm hosts a wide range of workshops covering everything from permaculture and gardening to herbal medicine, weaving, fermenting, foraging, and much more. This year, we […]
Marie Auger-Méthé (Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Department of Statistics) becomes an IRES Faculty Associate!
We are happy to announce that Marie Auger-Méthé (Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Department of Statistics) is a new IRES Faculty Associate! For more information on Marie please visit the following links: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/marie-auger-methe/ http://oceans.ubc.ca/marie-auger-methe/?login https://www.stat.ubc.ca/users/marie-auger-methe http://statisticalecology.weebly.com/
Scott McKenzie (RES PhD Candidate) writes a piece in The Conversation
Scott McKenzie has written an article in The Conversation, an independent source of news and views, from the academic and research community, delivered direct to the public. His article is Scientific information is the key to democracy. Click on link below to read. https://theconversation.com/scientific-information-is-the-key-to-democracy-88620 Photo credit: Andrea Booher/ FEMA Bio: Scott is a PhD student in […]
December 7, 2017: IRES Special Seminar
Speaker: Bradley Eyre
Last Seminar for Term 1
IRES Seminar Series Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday) Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall *************************************************************************** Role of shallow water carbonate sediment dissolution in the future accretion of coral reefs in an acidifying ocean Abstract: Ocean acidification (OA) is predicted to have a significant impact on the future of coral reefs, […]
Our RES Graduate Program application is open!
Deadline to apply is January 15, 2018.
The UBC online application system for RES September 2018 admissions is now open. The September 2018 RES admissions deadline is January 15, 2018. References are due January 25, 2018. Note: We do not have January admissions. _______________________________________________________________________________ The 2018 RES application procedure, admission requirements and required documents are detailed in the below link: https://ires.ubc.ca/graduate-program/prospective-students/how-to-apply/ For the […]
November 30, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Wade Davis
Photo Credit: Stephen Meyer from flickr/ Creative Commons
February 1, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Steve Conrad
Photo Credit: Stewart Butterfield from flickr/ Creative Commons
Friday March 2, 2018: Future of Food Global Dialogues: ‘Grazed and Confused’
“Grazed and Confused”: Panel on meat production, climate change, and sustainability This is a joint event between IRES, UBC Farm and UBC Animal Welfare Program (in Faculty of Land and Food Systems) Friday, March 2, 2018 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Room 107 – Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver Grazing animals […]