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Claire Kremen is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada!
Claire is an internationally renowned conservation scientist. She’s now been honoured with one of Canada’s highest accolades for scholars. Please join us in congratulating Claire!
Bavisha Kalyan
Assistant Professor, UBC Civil Engineering
Lydia Anderson
Trip Co-Coordinator
Congratulations to Claire Kremen (NSERC CREATE), and Leila Harris and Simon Donner (SSHRC Insight) for their successful grant awards!
IRES professors Claire Kremen, Leila Harris, and Simon Donner’s newly funding projects are titled, respectively, Collaborative Conservation, Reimagining River Governance, and Urban Future Walks!
Book Event: Finding Joy in Fighting Climate Change | September 16, 6:16-8:15pm
Join IRES’s Jiaying Zhao and UBC Psych’s Liz Dunn for their book launch on September 16th! This conversation will be moderated by Councilor Sarah Kirby-Yung, the Deputy Mayor of the City of Vancouver, to discuss their new book Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species.
Remembering the Heat Dome: A Living Memorial Event, Sunday August 16, 1-5 pm @ Creekside Community Centre
Please join UBC researchers and Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, United Way BC Healthy Aging, Climate Disaster Project, and Seniors for Climate for an event on Sunday August 16th to remember the 2021 heat dome.
Tim Rodgers
Assistant Professor of Teaching, IRES;
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Happiness is our best weapon to fight climate change
It turns out that even people who don’t hold strong environmental values exhibit mood benefits from taking climate-friendly actions.
Mark Johnson and Kai Chan awarded new Discovery Grants: Changing landscapes, the water cycle, and ecological food subsidies
A total of 199 new programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $47.6 million through the 2025 NSERC Discovery Research Program competition.
Decisions on major projects often ignore cultural and social losses
A more legitimate approach to compensating harms requires moving beyond improved methods toward rethinking the rules that frame the overall decision-making process.
From IRES’s Terre Satterfield & Robin Gregory, and U of Oregon’s Paul Slovic.