March 21, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Ron Stewart (University of Manitoba)
Dr. Ron Stewart from University of Manitoba will be presenting on climate/ weather extremes in a changing climate. While focusing on the physics aspect, Ron will also include societal impacts and adaptation measures.
March 14, 2019: IRES Student Seminar with Marco Vázquez Pérez and Alejandra Echeverri
We will be hearing presentations from Marco Vázquez Pérez, MSc student, and Alejandra Echeverri, PhD student. More talk info coming soon .
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Photo Credit: Rocio Lopez, IRES PhD Student
March 7, 2019: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Nafiza Ali
Join Nafiza Ali from UBC Wellness to learn about stress and mental health.
Royal Society of Canada Lecture: Negotiations over Groundwater Contamination
Learn more about Negotiations over Groundwater Contamination in a special Royal Society of Canada lecture with Dr. Keith W. Hipel, University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
February 28, 2019: IRES Student Seminar with Sahir Advani & Sean Smillie
We will be hearing presentations from Sahir Advani, PhD student, and Sean Smillie, MSc student.
February 26, 2019: A la Mar: a Documentary Film About Wave Protection in Peru
Description Join us for a screening of A la Mar, a Peruvian documentary film. Following the film, we will have a facilitated discussion and Q&A with a few experts and a short reception. About the film: In the eighties, La Herradura beach in Peru was destroyed. In the nineties, the wave of Cabo Blanco […]
February 14, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Nathan Bennett
Nathan Bennett is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at UBC. His research focuses on research projects that interrogate various aspects of the complex relationship between the marine environment and human society.
February 7, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Noella Gray
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are playing an increasingly significant role in global ocean conservation governance. In just the past ten years, total ocean area under protected status has increased more than fivefold. Drawing on literature from political ecology, political geography, and Science and Technology Studies, this talk will examine how science and other kinds of knowledge are produced for, and integrated into, MPA policies.
January 31, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Michelle Daigle
Michelle Daigle is Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9 in northern Ontario Canada, and of French ancestry. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, located on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam nation.
January 24, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Margery Fee
Margery Fee is an Emeritus Professor of English at UBC and discusses “Polarizing Bears” and the Climate Change Debate in this week’s seminar series.