March 23, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Bassam Javed and Sarah-Louise Ruder
Join IRES PhD Candidates Bassam Javed and Sarah-Louise Ruder’s presentations: “Clean and affordable transportation” for all Canadians: Heterogeneity in cost of electrifying passenger transportation in Canada; “Farmer Sociotechnical Imaginaries for Canadian Agri-Food Future”!
March 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Alex Moore
Join Dr. Alex Moore to learn about the inclusion of cultural values and community-centered conservation interventions!
March 16, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Boyd
This week’s IRES Seminar Series features Dr. David Boyd, who will talk about rights-based approaches to climate and environmental action
March 9, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Derek Gladwin
Join Dr. Derek Gladwin for his talk about digital presence as a process of professionalization.
February 23, 2023: No Seminar This Week
There is no IRES Seminar on November 10 due to the Midterm Break (Feb 20 to 24, 2023).
February 9, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Sumeet Gulati
Join Dr. Sumeet Gulati to learn about his research on the relationship between forest clearing and fatal human elephant conflict in India.
February 16, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Erika Gavenus and Shuoqi Ren
Join IRES PhD Candidate Erika Gavenus for her talk comparing historical and contemporary salmon harvest rates and MSc Student Shuoqi Ren’s presentation about urban environmental justice!
December 7, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún and Jumi Gogoi (Last seminar in Term 1)
Talk titles:
1. Women and counter-mapping hydrosocial territories: activists’ practices of knowledge co-production in the Chiloé archipelago (southern Chile) and,
2. Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data
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.