Innovations in Energy Transition: the Question of Storage
January 16th from 3:00-4:00pm | Alternatives to fossil fuels are needed and innovations in wind, solar and other renewable energies are progressing. However, the question of storage remains a challenge. Join UBC researchers Robert Godin (UBCO Chemistry) and Werner Antweiler (UBCV Business) in a discussion around the question of energy storage.
Geomatics career conversations – Panel and small group discussions, hear directly from GIS professionals | Register before January 19th
Masters of Geomatics for Environmental Management invites you to a panel discussion followed by small-group conversations. Hear directly from GIS professionals as they share advice on building a career in Geomatics. Then, meet and chat with the experts about career-building, networking, and the geomatics working world. All graduate students are welcome. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be provided.
Zoom Event – Settler Ecologies: The Nature Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel
Irus Braverman will discuss her latest book, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (2023, University of Minnesota Press).
Scientists Flag Conflicts of Interest Ahead of UN Plastic and Chemical Talks
An international group of 35 scientists, including IRES’s Gunilla Öberg, is calling out conflicts of interest plaguing global plastic treaty negotiations and that have interfered with timely action on other health and environmental issues. They urge the implementation of strict guidelines to prevent the same problems from affecting the UN’s upcoming Science Policy Panel on chemicals.
New report on urban bats in Vancouver from grad student Daniel Forrest and alum Julia Craig
With funding from UBC’s Ocean Leaders program and the City, Forrest and Craig used bats as an exemplary group to identify existing supportive ecosystems (bat “hotspots”), areas that could or currently connect those ecosystems, and interventions which might help contribute to both.
IRES’s Dr. Jiaying Zhao to testify in the Canadian Senate on the basic income bill Tuesday, October 17th 2023
Zhao (she/her) will serve as an expert witness supporting Bill S-233, an Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income.
The Right to Repair Sustainability Forum | UBC Robson Square | July 29, 2023 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
A panel of experts discuss the real-world applications of their research on the challenges facing community repair cafés, local and international policy models for a circular economy, and built-to-fail bicycles & e-bikes, including IRES’s PhD student Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas!
Featured Panelist- Indigenous Feminist Movements Leading Climate Responses and Solutions – Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún | June 7, 1:40 pm
IRES PhD student Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún will be a featured panelist at The Together | Ensemble at UBC – Advancing the SDGs in BC which focuses on key cross-cutting themes relating to decolonization, climate justice, education, and just transition. Her talk will start at 1:40 pm
cosphere.net’s #SciOnEarthNet Initiative | May 9th at 1 pm
Are you interested in contributing your expertise to help change-makers combat the eco-climate crisis? Or to build a platform to enable other experts to do this, easily and enjoyably (but with professional credit)? Help shape #SciOnEarthNet, an initiative of EarthNet and Dr. Kai Chan’s project CoSphere.
Learn more and give feedback Tuesday, May 9th at 1pm PST in AERL RM 419 (the Fishbowl) or online via the RSVP link.
Ethical Data Governance Workshop for Agriculture | May 10 – June 14
Join this workshop series organized by IRES grad student Sarah-Louise Ruder, from May 10 – June 14.