March 24, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Danielle Ignace
Dr. Ignace talks about “Broadening our approach to find community-driven solutions to environmental challenges”
April 7, 2022: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Andrea Reimer
How many times have you seen great ideas take much longer to come to fruition than they needed to, or even fail altogether, because people or politics got in the way? Power informs the way we take up space and whether or not we leave room for others. How we unconsciously accept the way the playing field is tilted and cede ground to other people also reinforces power structures.
Launch Your Career in Canada | Mar 7-11, 2022
Launch Your Career in Canada is UBC’s annual networking experience open only to UBC international students, dedicated to supporting their career development. Each year, Launch Your Career in Canada provides an opportunity for UBC’s international students to connect with alumni, who were once international students, and learn from their experience establishing their career.
April 14, 2022: IRES Student Symposium
Three IRES Students talk about “Exploring a mercury mystery: Weaving Western Science and Inuvialuit Knowledge to model the drivers of mercury pollution in the Beaufort Sea food web”, “Boosting understanding of lifestyle carbon emissions: Evaluating the effectiveness of personal carbon calculators to promote climate action”, and “Understanding people’s assessment of risks from nuclear energy in India.”
March 31, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Naomi Zimmerman
This seminar is co-sponsored by UBC IRES & UBC CERC (UBC Clean Energy Research Centre).
Parks and Protected Areas Research Network 2022 eSummit | CPCIL | Feb 22-25, 2022
With Parks Canada and the Canadian Parks Council and guidance from Indigenous elders and colleagues, CPCIL is excited to host the second pan-Canadian Parks and Protected Areas Research eSummit from February 22 to 25, 2022 along with a complementary year-long webinar and dialogue series.
By holding a virtual event, we can decrease our carbon footprint, increase accessibility for participants, and support social distancing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
February 17, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Kathryn Harrison
She will reflect on her attendance at COP26 in Glasgow, which followed the first working group report from the IPCC’s sixth assessment, and was the first critical “ratchet” period where countries are expected to increase their target ambition under the Paris Agreement.
Feb 11 | Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Whys and Hows of Your Research – STEM
Check out a forum on how to effectively articulate complex graduate research in #STEM to media, public and other decision-makers! Featuring IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan, Dr. Kira Hoffman of UBC Faculty of Forestry, and Dr. Nemy Banthia of UBC Engineering.
Feb 10th: Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees: The Complexity of How We Value Nature
With IRES’ Kai Chan and Paige Olmsted as featured speakers, Smart Prosperity Institute is an environment-economy research think tank, where much of the focus is on how to build a resilient and sustainable economy. When it comes to valuing nature, there are often critiques that market-based approaches and economic language and thinking undermine the true value of ecosystems and natural landscapes. Our discussion will ask when and how attaching economic values to nature can be beneficial or harmful, and will include a range of perspectives and on-the-ground experiences speaking to how nature gets included and left out of decision-making.
The EOAS Colloquium Series begins its 6 week series via Zoom!
A 6 part seminar series every Thursday on the Intersections between Earth Science & a Society-Spanning Response to the Climate Crisis, featuring IRES’s Dr. Amanda Giang. Virtual seminars are being currently held with hybrid formats later if possible.