November 23, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Jackie Lerner
This presentation will be a frank exploration of careers in environmental consulting. IRES Alumnus Dr. Jackie Lerner has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, Indigenous, provincial, territorial, and federal governments for over twenty-five years. Most of her work has related to the environmental assessment of large resource development projects in Canada: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia.
November 16, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with James Connolly
How do land-use-based climate strategies reorder the local geography of risk for urban residents? In this talk, Connolly argues that the answer to this question is more complicated than the one commonly presented in public discourse.
Seminar Cancelled — November 9, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Lindah Ddamba and Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas
Talk titles: 1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress, and;
2. Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia
November 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Jonathan Foley
Dr. Jonathan Foley is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, and next Thursday he’ll show us how the Drawdown Roadmap charts a path to accelerate climate solutions before it’s too late.
October 26, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Tom Green
We’re joined by the Senior Climate Policy Adviser for the David Suzuki Foundation, Tom Green! His talk will cover how the ecological economics perspective can inform education, advocacy and policy.
January 12, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Patrick Meyfroidt (First Seminar of Term 2)
Join Dr. Patrick Meyfroidt for his presentation about improving the sustainability of commodity supply chains!
January 19, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Vincent Chireh and James Wu
Join IRES PhD Candidate Vincent Chireh for his talk on water conservation in BC and MSc Student James Wu’s presentation about influence of framing on solutions to environmental and social problems!
February 2, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar Series with Nivretta Thatra
Join Nivi for this workshop about science communication – on writing lay abstracts and creating a professional online presence.
October 12, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Giulia Belotti and Brian Wang
Talk titles:
1. Understanding debates over urban development projects: navigating sustainability, affordability, and livability issues in Vancouver’s Broadway Plan
2. Lost in Transition – Dissolved Carbon Evolution along a Pacific Maritime Headwater Stream Network
October 5, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Rachel Scholes
Researchers like Dr. Rachel Scholes are increasingly worried about the negative impacts of contaminants found in road runoff, like the tire rubber byproduct 6PPD-quinone. But research is showing that urban rain gardens can help!