December 7, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún and Jumi Gogoi (Last seminar in Term 1)
Talk titles: 1. Women+ 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 Read More
November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall
Tindall describes recent work: This study examines the perceived influence of different actors in Canada's climate change policy network just prior to the signing of the Paris Agreement. In this research, we consider the problem of addressing climate change from a policy network perspective Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 Read More
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! Read More
September 28, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Danielle Barkley
IRES students ONLY are invited to professional development workshop with Dr. Danielle Barkley, a Career Educator at the UBC Career Centre. Read More
September 21, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Lori Daniels
We invite you to a talk by Dr. Lori Daniels, an expert on forest dynamics, disturbance, and wildfire regimes. Read More
September 14, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Trisa Ngo and Grace Schaan
Current IRES grad students Grace Schaan and Trisa Ngo are taking the stage this Thursday! Topics: - effects of logging and urban development on water - Saskatchewan politics and Twitter Read More
April 20, 2023: IRES Student Symposium with Rumi Naito and Josh Travers (Last Seminar in Term 2)
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! Read More
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"! Read More
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 Read More
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. Read More
March 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Sara Barron
Join Dr. Sara Barron for her presentation exploring a new framework for a scenario-based approach incorporating a design process for planning future urban forests! Read More
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! Read More
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. Read More



















