Congratulations to the May 2019 Graduates!
Congratulations to our RES & RMES May Graduates!
COMMENTARY: May 22 is international biodiversity day — and this scientist thinks change is possible: Op-ed by Kai Chan, IRES Faculty Member
The United Nations issued its first comprehensive global scientific report on biodiversity on Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) In the jobs-versus-environment debate, neither side is wrong. The problem is the 20th-century economy that forces us to choose. This is a key message of the new UN report I co-authored about nature […]
Congratulations to the 2018/2019 Les Lavkulich Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2018/2019 recipients of the Les Lavkulich Graduate Student Fellowship and the Les Lavkulich Outstanding Leadership and Service award!
Blame the Signs: When Recycling is Confusing, We Avoid It
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April 11, 2019: IRES Student Symposium Speakers: various RES Master and PhD students
The IRES Student Symposium showcases research done by our Masters and PhD students. Presenters include John Driscoll, Naya Arriagada Oyarzún, Krista Cawley, Victor Lam, Steve Williams and Connor Robinson.
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New Climate Solutions Research – Opportunity Projects
New Climate Solutions Research – Opportunity Projects The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is pleased to announce the first four research projects to be awarded funding under its new Opportunity Projects Program (OPP). Opportunity projects are partnership-driven, research initiatives that aim to generate high-impact climate mitigation or adaptation solutions. OPP launched in late 2018, resulting in […]
April 4, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change and Food Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
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Photo Credit: Graham McDowell
Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in Geospatial Analysis – Utah State University
Starting Salary: $52,000 Closing Date: May 1, 2019 or until filled Responsibilities and Duties The Department of Environment and Society seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in geospatial analysis to teach four courses in that field including an undergraduate intro GIS course (on-line, fall semester), a graduate geospatial analysis course (on-line fall and spring semesters), […]
The Future of Renewable Infrastructure is Uncertain Without Good Planning: Op-ed by IRES PhD Students, Vikas Menghwani and Sandeep Pai, and IRES Associate Faculty Member, Hisham Zerriffi
These photovoltaics panels provide this village with energy now, but they could become obsolete when the main grid arrives. (Shutterstock) Vikas Menghwani, University of British Columbia; Hisham Zerriffi, University of British Columbia, and Sandeep Pai, University of British Columbia In 2005, a small hydropower plant was installed in the Sukajaya district of West Java, Indonesia. […]