October 18, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar with Robin Harder
Join IRES on Thursday, Oct. 18 for Robin Harder’s talk on “Five often overlooked aspects of closing nutrient cycles from human excreta to food and farming systems.”
September 20, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: David Boyd
David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment and environmental lawyer, will be presenting on “The Right to Breathe Clean Air: Catalyst for Change?”
October 4, 2018: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Johnnie Manson and Rainer Lempert
We will be hearing presentations from Johnnie Manson, a PhD student and Rainer Lempert, MSc student. ********************************************************************************************************
Photo Credit: Graham McDowell, IRES PhD Candidate
October 11, 2018: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Abhishek Kar and Zachary Sherker
We will be hearing presentations from Abhishek Kar, a PhD student and Zachary Sherker, MSc student.
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Photo Credit: Robin Harder, Postdoctoral Fellow at IRES
September 13, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Julia Baird (Brock University)
Julia Baird, Assistant Professor at Brock University, will present on the “Understandings of water resource systems through a resilience lens”
September 6, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Charlie Wilson
(First Seminar for Term 1)
Charlie Wilson, an IRES alum, and a current research in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research will be speaking on “Transforming Energy Demand to Meet the 1.5°C Climate Target and Sustainable Development Goals Without Negative Emission Technologies”. Photo Credit: Madison Stevens, IRES PhD Student
Hummingbirds ‘sing’ with their tail feathers to impress the females
Emily Mistick discusses her research on Costa’s hummingbirds and their unique dive trajectory during courtship with CBC Radio.
February 1, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Steve Conrad
Photo Credit: Stewart Butterfield from flickr/ Creative Commons
March 1, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Hope in the Anthropocene Series
Speakers: Johannes Urpelainen and Rustam Sengupta
Roundtable on Social Science in the field: Working on Development with NGOs and Social Enterprises Johannes Urpelainen and Rustam Sengupta IRES Seminar Series Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday) Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall *************************************************************************** Abstract: Social scientists are increasingly collaborating with partners in the field (NGOs, Social Enterprises and in […]
March 15, 2018: IRES Student Seminar
Understanding perceptions of species and the Phylo game (Megan Callahan)
Household energy transition in India (Poushali Maji)
Photo Credit: Cognitive Foundations for Visual Analytics from flickr/ Creative Commons