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.
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.
November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall
Tindall describes recent work: This study examines the perceived influence of different actors in Canada’s climate change policy network just prior to the signing of the Paris Agreement. In this research, we consider the problem of addressing climate change from a policy network perspective
Climate Solutions Research Collective- Position for Program Coordinator | Deadline: July 24, 2023
The Climate Solutions Research Collective is looking for a Program Coordinator to manage and administer the Collective, and assist in the development of new research collaborations and funding proposals.
The Right to Repair Sustainability Forum | UBC Robson Square | July 29, 2023 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
A panel of experts discuss the real-world applications of their research on the challenges facing community repair cafés, local and international policy models for a circular economy, and built-to-fail bicycles & e-bikes, including IRES’s PhD student Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas!
Featured Panelist- Indigenous Feminist Movements Leading Climate Responses and Solutions – Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún | June 7, 1:40 pm
IRES PhD student Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún will be a featured panelist at The Together | Ensemble at UBC – Advancing the SDGs in BC which focuses on key cross-cutting themes relating to decolonization, climate justice, education, and just transition. Her talk will start at 1:40 pm
cosphere.net’s #SciOnEarthNet Initiative | May 9th at 1 pm
Are you interested in contributing your expertise to help change-makers combat the eco-climate crisis? Or to build a platform to enable other experts to do this, easily and enjoyably (but with professional credit)? Help shape #SciOnEarthNet, an initiative of EarthNet and Dr. Kai Chan’s project CoSphere.
Learn more and give feedback Tuesday, May 9th at 1pm PST in AERL RM 419 (the Fishbowl) or online via the RSVP link.
Ethical Data Governance Workshop for Agriculture | May 10 – June 14
Join this workshop series organized by IRES grad student Sarah-Louise Ruder, from May 10 – June 14.