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
December 7, 2017: IRES Special Seminar
Speaker: Bradley Eyre
Last Seminar for Term 1
IRES Seminar Series Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday) Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall *************************************************************************** Role of shallow water carbonate sediment dissolution in the future accretion of coral reefs in an acidifying ocean Abstract: Ocean acidification (OA) is predicted to have a significant impact on the future of coral reefs, […]
November 30, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Wade Davis
Photo Credit: Stephen Meyer from flickr/ Creative Commons
February 1, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Steve Conrad
Photo Credit: Stewart Butterfield from flickr/ Creative Commons
Friday March 2, 2018: Future of Food Global Dialogues: ‘Grazed and Confused’
“Grazed and Confused”: Panel on meat production, climate change, and sustainability This is a joint event between IRES, UBC Farm and UBC Animal Welfare Program (in Faculty of Land and Food Systems) Friday, March 2, 2018 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Room 107 – Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver Grazing animals […]
January 18, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Hope in the Anthropocene Series
Speaker: Thomas D. Sisk
Photo Credit: Pete and Noe Woods from flickr/ Creative Commons
January 17, 2018: Green College Seminar
Hope in the Anthropocene Series
Speakers: Thomas Sisk and Wendy Palen
Location: Coach House, UBC Green College Address: 6201 Cecil Green Park Road Date: Wednesday, January 17th 2018 Time: 5pm Participatory Science, Public Discourse, and Hope for Solving Wicked Environmental Problems Thomas D. Sisk, Landscape Conservation Initiative, Northern Arizona University, and Wendy J. Palen, Earth to Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University Abstract: Hope for the […]
March 8, 2018: Jonathan Wilkinson, MP
Revamping Canada’s Environmental Laws
Photo Credit 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 […]