Rebecca Martone – March 8th, 2012
will be speaking about coupled social-ecological systems research for ecosystem-based management in coastal marine ecosystems
Part of the IRES Seminar Series.
February 28th: Building for Sustainability
All students, staff, faculty, UBC residents and the general public are warmly welcomed! Lecture held from 3:30 – 5:00pm in MacMillan 166.
Moving Toward Genuine Water Security
By Karen Bakker, Director, Programme on Water Governance, Professor, UBC Department of Geography
UBC researchers provide recommendations for $100 billion in annual climate change aid
Read more from Simon Donner, Milind Kandlikar and Hisham Zerriffi here.
Awards
It’s time to start thinking about completing your NSERC, SSHRC and Affiliated awards application forms for next year. Visit the awards page for more information.
Megan Mach featured on NPR
RMES PhD student Megan Mach was featured on NPR last week discussing her research into the effects of native and non-native sea grass in the Washington area.
RMES Students are Greenest City Scholars
Darlene Seto and Lisa Westerhoff will be working with Vancouver City to help advance their sustainability goals.
Dr Leila Harris appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance
It has been announced that Dr Leila Harris has been appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance (www.watergovernance.ca) Leila Harris is currently Assistant Professor with the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her work examines social, cultural and [...]
MA Student Susanna Haas Lyons launches Vancouver transportation discussion
As part of Greenest City Conversations, Susanna Haas Lyons has launched a discussion on Vancouver transportation. Exploring Vancouver’s Transportation Future invites Vancouver residents and commuters to contribute their ideas in a Facebook conversation that will help shape the City of Vancouver’s Transportation Plan. Starting May 31, residents and commuters will discuss key issues – like health, [...]
PhD Candidate Christian Beaudrie appears in the NHI Nanoblog: Experts Differ On Risks
PhD Candidate Christian Beaudrie appears in the New Haven Independent Nanoblog following his presentation at the International Conference on the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology held at Duke University. The full article can be accessed here http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/experts_differ_on_nano_risk/
Scientist sign-on letter for South Okanagan Similkameen National Park in Canada
Open request letter from Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Kai Chan.
Michael Lathuillière
Winner of the 2011 Frieda Pagani Scholarship in Sustainability.
Click to read more about his research.
IRES Digest
The IRES Digest has changed. Everything is available by following this link to the blog. You can also subscribe through an RSS reader.
Re-thinking the rickshaw
With more than a million operating in India alone, and more in Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Kenya, rickshaws are a major cause of urban air pollution and contribute to climate change.
PLAN 545: CLIMATE ADAPTATION, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES & WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN COSTA RICA
In May 2010 a group of students from the RMES program took part in PLAN 545.
This course takes place in Latin America’s oldest and most important tropical forest
and agriculture research centre, CATIE.
Award winning students in IRES
James Murphy won the Killam scholarship. Click here to find out more about what he’s doing in his studies.
Autorickshaw emissions in India
Conor Reynolds, a PhD candidate, and Andy Grieshop, a post-doctoral fellow, traveled to Delhi to measure pollutant emissions from real-world autorickshaws in September 2009. Click here to find out more about their trip.
