IRES Newsletter: April 3, 2023 | This week's IRES Professional Development Seminar invites 3 IRES Alumni to talk about their professional journeys, from IRES graduate students to senior policy experts in water, economic development and waste management in Vancouver. Join us for this conversation with Dr. Tugce Conger, Dr. Ivana Zelenika, and Erika Luna to find out more about their experience in this career option! Learn More | Our Seminar Series continues with a Professional Development Seminar featuring Bekkah Coburn and Erica Triggs! Join their talk to learn about handling student-supervisor concerns and how students can be supported through the process. Learn More | Master's student Shuoqi Ren was awarded the David Bates Scholarship for 2022/2023! In association with this honour, Shuoqi gave a talk at the BC Lung Foundation’s Annual Air Quality and Health Workshop on March 30th. | Our brains are wired to favor immediate gratification. This makes climate action, which involves costs now and benefits later, an uphill struggle. ClimateOne asked Dr. Jiaying Zhao and Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime: How can we change our behavior and can we do it fast enough? Listen Now! | Join IRES in taking part in the BuddyBoost Active challenge: Move for 26 minutes a day for 26 days, kicking off on April 3rd (today)! Download the app now onto your phone (Apple, Google Play) and use the code SCIENCES. Invite your buddies across all departments in Science! Bookmark the sign up page | Another episode of Biodiversity Speaks is out! In this episode, Dr. Alex Moore from our Seminar Series is featured. Check these services for past episodes: Apple, Spotify Listen in your browser! | Multiple Postdoctoral Fellows: Analysis of Energy Systems, Carbon Dioxide Removal and Life Cycle Thinking | University of Toronto Deadline: Open until filled Postdoctoral Research Associate I CLIMAS at University of Arizona Deadline: Open until filled Postdoctoral Scholar in Water, Nutrition, Health, and Human Biology | Pennsylvania State University Deadline: Open until filled Sustainability Lecturer | University of Wisconsin-Madison Deadline: April 14, 2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Simulation of Human-Environmental Systems | Colorado State University Deadline: April 16, 2023 Strategy Lead, District Energy | City of Edmonton Deadline: April 20, 2023 Digital Engagement Coordinator | IPCA Knowledge Basket Deadline: April 30, 2023 IonE Postdoctoral Fellowship | University of Minnesota Deadline: May 1, 2023 See All Job Postings | Policy Comms Clinic | Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions UBC Democracy is offering free workshops & individual consultation services for the policy communications and policy impact needs of students, staff, and faculty at UBC! Learn More | | UBC Science 101 Volunteer Opportunities Science 101 is a non-credit, barrier free Science community outreach program offered to adult residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and other inner-city communities. We have a variety of lectures, tutorials, and field trips to inspire a love of science and education. Learn More
| | Call for applications: Minister’s Advisory Council on impact assessment The Minister of Environment and Climate Change is seeking applications from individuals with varied experience and diverse backgrounds who are interested in serving as members of the Minister’s Advisory Council. This will ensure the Council can continue providing broad and inclusive views that reflect regional perspectives and diversity of experience. The Council is composed of seven to 12 members, including the Chairperson, and members are appointed for four-year terms. Deadline: April 11, 2023 Learn More | | Fully-funded PhD: International Environment and Development Studies – Finance and Rural Development | Norwegian University of Life Sciences In this fully-funded PhD position, the candidate will evelop research ideas on the links between finance and rural development processes, as well as the implications of these links for social, economic, and environmental justice. Deadline: April 11, 2023 Apply Here | | Call for Application: CASCADES Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems UBC has partnered with CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Health System in a Climate Crisis), ELESH (Emerging Leaders for Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-IHSPR, CIHR-IPPH, CIHR-III) to host a hub in Vancouver for the second annual Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems. The Summer Institute will to be held the week of June 19 – 22, 2023, in-person at 11 hub locations across Canada. A virtual hub will be offered for those unable to attend an in-person hub. Deadline: April 10, 2023 Learn More | | Call for Papers – Addressing Inequality: papers that address policy challenges linked to inequality, abroad and in Canada | Queen's Policy Review 2023 The Queen’s Policy Review is seeking paper submissions from across Canada in English for publication in its 2023 (Volume 14) edition. The QPR is a graduate-level scholarly publication, edited and reviewed by students and faculty at the Queen's University School of Policy Studies. If you have any questions or require further information, please contact our editors at qpr@queensu.ca. Deadline: April 14, 2023 Learn More | | Program for Open Scholarship and Education | Open UBC The Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) is an online three month flexible and blended program that will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education, and Open Research. Deadline: May 1, 2023 Learn More | | Elizabeth Henry Scholarship | Fraser Basin Council The Elizabeth Henry Scholarship for Communities and Environmental Health supports graduate students working on research projects in partnership with one or more Indigenous and/or non-Indigenous British Columbia communities that are addressing air quality, environmental health issues and/or promoting environmental sustainability through cooperative initiatives. Deadline: May 10, 2023 Learn More | | UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter Check out the latest UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter for events, workshops, and more! Learn More | UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Update Newsletter Check out the latest "GradUpdate" - a weekly snapshot of workshops and opportunities available to UBC graduate students. Read the Newsletter | | Blesh, J., Mehrabi, Z., Wittman, H., Kerr, R. B., James, D., Madsen, S., Smith, O. M., Snapp, S., Stratton, A. E., Bakarr, M., Bicksler, A. J., Galt, R., Garibaldi, L. A., Gemmill-Herren, B., Grass, I., Isaac, M. E., John, I., Jones, S. K., Kennedy, C. M., Klassen, S., Levers, C., Rasmussen, L. V., & Kremen, C. (2023). Against the odds: Network and Institutional Pathways Enabling Agricultural Diversification. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.004 Cornwall, C. E., Comeau, S., Donner, S. D., Perry, C., Dunne, J., van Hooidonk, R., Ryan, S., & Logan, C. A. (2023). Coral adaptive capacity insufficient to halt global transition of coral reefs into net erosion under climate change. Global Change Biology, 00, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16647 Claire Kremen, Ilke Geladi. Land-Sparing and Sharing: Identifying Areas of Consensus, Remaining Debate and Alternatives.Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00072-4 [PRESENTATION] Tutolo, B., Scherwath, M., Moran, K., Goldberg, D., Awolayo, A., Coogan, L., Crawford, C., Dosso, S., Ekpo Johnson, E., Lauer, R., Louis, E., Nawaz, S., Satterfield, T., Slagle, A., Todd, D., and Webb, R.: Solid Carbon: Safe and Durable Carbon Storage in Ocean Basalt - From Feasibility to Demonstration to Global Potential, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-16856, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16856, 2023. | Ecology of Mass Incarceration As part of Environmental History Week, the Carnegie Mellon Department of History is hosting a webinar on Ecologies of Mass Incarceration, which will feature an extraordinary panel of practitioners, activists, journalists, and scholars. 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