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January 18, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Kushank Bajaj on Zoom only
Talk Title
Transboundary climate risks of Canada’s fruit and vegetable supply
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
March 28, 2024: IRES & IBioS Co-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.
The fridge hack that can slack your food waste
Professor Dr. Jiaying Zhao discussed how to organize your fridge to reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions in the Washington Post via The Seattle Times
Photo by Kenny Eliason via unsplash
What is 6PPD and why is it killing our coho?
A study by Dr. Timothy Rodgers and Dr. Amanda Giang which found that rain gardens could help prevent a toxic tire chemical from entering our waterways is featured by multiple media outlets.
Cigarette butts remain Vancouver’s most littered item — and a seemingly unsolvable waste problem
Cigarette butts are still the No. 1 most littered item in Vancouver. Education, mitigation programs over the threat of up to $10,000 in fines — have done little to this littering problem. Dr. Jiaying Zhao is featured in this CBC article to answer what can be done about this problem through social nudges.
February 8, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin
This presentation is an exploration of Cree guidance for revitalizing and rebuilding Cree food systems as part of a larger Indigenous food sovereignty framework.
2023 on track to be the hottest year as September smashes records | CNN
Dr. Simon Donner is featured by CNN for discussing data that showed September 2023 was the hottest ever recorded. He states that it’s imperative that in order to fight climate change, our world’s leaders must follow the Paris Agreement and understand the realities of a 3 degree increase instead of 2 degrees.
How clouds protect coral reefs, but will not be enough to save them from us
Dr. Simon Donner co-authored an op-ed about the importance of coral reefs and the danger they face from climate change.