June 9, 2022: IRES Special Seminar with Daniel Olivares Quero
Join Professor Olivares on June 9th as he talks about “The Role of Distributed Energy Resources in the Long-Term Energy Planning in Chile: Models, Projections and Policy Implications”.
April 27, 2022: IRES Special Seminar with Alain Nadaï
The urgent need to prevent the worst effects of climate change and to preserve a habitable earth is widely recognized. The massive shift to non-fossil forms of energy, so-called renewables, confronts us with (new) pulsations of ecosystems (wind speed, solar radiation, ocean currents) and the need to install infrastructure in a myriad of new environments. This changes our relation to energy and the environment, and raises questions of acceptance in many countries.
March 17, 2022: IRES Student Seminar with Georgia Green and Justin Huynh
Two Students talk about “Characterizing Diverging Perspectives of Relevance for Chemicals Policy” and “Predicting the Impact of Minerals for a Low-Carbon Energy Transition”
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 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).
February 10, 2022: IRES Student Seminar with Helina Jolly and Allison Cutting
Helina’s talk: Reimagining Conservation Landscapes: Adivasi Characterizations of The Human-Dimensions of Southern Indian Forests
Allison’s talk: A Closer Look into Bycatch for Improved Marine Conservation and Management Design
January 27, 2022: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Alex Walls and Nivi Thatra
Researchers, how you communicate about your work impacts the reach and therefore the real-world applicability of your scholarship. For this workshop Alex Walls from UBC Media Relations and Nivi Thatra from IRES invite you to come with a research topic or paper in hand.
February 3, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Mara Jill Goldman
In this talk I present my new book, Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (University of Arizona Press, 2020), which draws on over two decades of fieldwork among Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya.
January 20, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Ilyas Siddique (First Seminar for Term 2)
Successional agroforestry offers great potential to accelerate and scale out ecosystem restoration and produce healthy food at the same time on the same land. Yet, simultaneous ecological and socioeconomic success requires detailed knowledge of management traits of diverse plants and experience with efficient allocation of labor and inputs in space and time.