IRES Newsletter: November 28, 2022 | We’re proud of our newest cohort of graduates and wish them all well! Please join us in congratulating: Julia Craig (MSc) advised by Kai Chan, Allison Cutting (MSc) advised by Terre Satterfield & Rashid Sumaila, Emma Gillies (MSc) advised by Amanda Giang, Susanna Klassen (PhD) advised by Navin Ramankutty & Hannah Wittman, Carly McGregor (MSc) advised by Claire Kremen, Simone Rawal (MSc) advised by Stephanie Chang,Colton Stevens (MSc) advised by Kai Chan, Alexa Tanner (PhD) advised by Stephanie Chang, Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje (MA) advised by David Boyd, and Taya Triffo (MA) advised by Leila Harris. | IRES alum and postdoc Dr. Helina Jolly is the host of a new podcast, Biodiversity Speaks! In the first episode, Dr. Jolly speaks with Dr. Juliet Lu about the economic and ecological impacts of rubber plantations in Asia. Listen Here | Join a post-COP27 event for an opportunity to hear from and speak with faculty and student delegates who have just returned from climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh. Register Here | IRES graduate student Manvi Bhalla received the Youth Eco Hero of the Year Award from the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in recognition of her numerous leadership roles in the sector. These roles include being featured in diverse media engagements and co-founding the national non-profits Shake Up The Establishment and missINFORMED. She works to ensure intersectional and decolonized approaches are always centred within the health research space, and is lauded for raising awareness through artistic expression. Congratulations, Manvi! Learn More | The Sustainability Hub featured Dr. Jiaying Zhao on their podcast series on sustainability and climate action. Check it out! Listen Now | IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan is speaking at TEDx Surrey on January 21st – join him and other compelling speakers for the event! Learn More | Last IRES Seminar Series of Term 1: Join Dr. Sara Knox for this Faculty Seminar about wetlands in a changing world. Learn More | RES application: Applications to our RES grad program are open! Please share with your colleagues. Deadline: Dec 15, 2022 This year we're shining a spotlight on Dr. Joséphine Gantois, who is the incoming IRES Core Faculty member! She is currently recruiting an MSc student to join her lab group in Fall 2023 to work on a project around marginal farmland naturalization in Southern Ontario. Learn more: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/josephine-gantois-2/ Information for Prospective Students | Internship Positions at Chilcotin Holidays and the Chilcotin Ark Institute Deadline varies Assistant Professor in Indigenous Geographies | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Deadline: November 30, 2022 Assistant Professor, Coastal/Marine Climate Change | Duke University Deadline: December 1, 2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology | University of Virginia Deadline: December 1, 2022 8 permanent social science positions at EPA Deadline: December 5, 2022 Assistant Professor - Climate Change and Sustainability in Africa | University of Toronto Deadline: December 5, 2022 Assistant Professor - Planetary Health | University of Toronto Deadline: December 5, 2022 Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Applied Economics and Environmental Geography in the Global South | University of Wisconsin-Madison Deadline: December 7, 2022 Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Justice | University of South Florida Tampa campus Deadline: December 10, 2022 Assistant or Associate Professor in Sustainable Systems School for Environment and Sustainability | University of Michigan Deadline: December 12, 2022 Assistant/Associate Professor (Feminist/Economic Geographies) | National University of Singapore Deadline: December 15, 2022 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies & Science | Pace University Deadline: January 5, 2023 Assistant Professor in Human Geography | Durham University Deadline: January 8, 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (In)Equality Postdoctoral Fellow, Racial Justice & Global Change | University of Denver Deadline: January 13, 2023 3 Tenure-Track Positions in Geoscience | Florida Atlantic University Deadline: January 15, 2023 Assistant Professor of Community & Regional Planning | Iowa State Univesity Deadline: January 31, 2023 Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship Deadline: February 1, 2023 See All Job Postings | Call for submission: Yale Graduate Conference in Religion & Ecology The 7th Annual Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology has opened its Call for Papers and Creative/Artistic Submissions. The conference will be held on March 3, 2023. The theme of this year’s conference, “Earth’s Lamentation: Ecological Grief and the Paradox of Hope,” invites participants to consider the necessity of lamentation and the complexity of hope in the face of climate change. Deadline: November 30, 2023 Learn More | | Call for Applications: Olav Slaymaker Scholarship in Environment The Olav Slaymaker Scholarship application is awarded to current UBC PhD or Masters students studying topics related to environmental issues and supervised by a faculty member appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Deadline: December 2, 2022 Learn More | | Graduate Research Assistant: evacuation services & emergency communications for First Nations communities Professor Jocelyn Stacey (Allard Law) is looking to hire a graduate research assistant for January to April (maximum 150 hours) for research related to evacuation services and emergency communications for First Nations communities. Deadline: December 9, 2022 Learn More | | Call for Volunteers: 7th biennial North American Congress for Conservation Biology SCB North America is very excited to be hosting the 7th biennial North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) in Vancouver, BC, in June 2024. The invitation for volunteers is open! See here for committee descriptions and sign up! Learn More | | Funded PhD in Geography and Research Assistant Positions | Clark University The Graduate School of Geography at Clark University invites applications to its PhD program and offers two Research Assistant (RA) positions for a NASA-funded project on “Irrigation as climate change adaptation in the Cerrado biome of Brazil”, starting in August 2023. The PhD students working on this research project will develop expertise across a broad spectrum of the discipline of geography, including GIS, remote sensing, and political ecology / human-environment geography. Deadline: December 15, 2022 Learn More | | UTown@UBC Student Art and Animation Fund The Student Art and Animation Fund is a Giving Day Donors-funded that provides up to $5000 for materials for students to create temporary works of public art at UBC—anything from performance art, to placemaking initiatives, to installations. Deadline: December 31, 2022 Learn More | | Call for abstracts: Crossroads Interdisciplinary Health Research Conference 2023 The 19th Annual Crossroads Interdisciplinary Health Research Conference is happening on March 10-11th, 2023 at the Halifax Central Library and Dalhousie University’s Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB) in Halifax, NS. Crossroads will be accepting abstracts for poster and oral presentations from students working on any health-related project, at any stage. Deadline: January 6, 2023 Learn More | | PhD Position at the Water Resilience Lab | Brock University Dr. Ryan Plummer and Dr. Julia Baird are recruiting a doctoral student for a September 2023 start. This is a fully-funded position for the first two years, with a basic Brock funding package thereafter (and the student will be actively supported in applying for scholarships). The position will be situated within the Partnership for Freshwater Resilience between the ESRC and WWF-Canada and the project will be applied in nature. Deadline: January 10, 2023 Learn More | | Course registration: Writing Climate Change: Storytelling & Action (ASTU 400H) This seminar is ideal for students who are familiar with climate change as a subject of scientific or social inquiry, but want to write about it in ways that engage, delight, and inspire action. Thinking critically about existing climate content, we'll tackle what it means to create climate narratives that are inclusive and emotionally resonant with the general public. Drawing from historical discourse, recent market research, and storytelling strategies, discover how to write your own climate story. Register Here | | Become a Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research Reviewer Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research (CJUR) at the University of British Columbia is a journal that aims to provide an accessible platform for undergraduate researchers to gain experience in academic publishing. Click here to apply to become a reviewer! 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 | | Bennett, N. J., Alava, J. J., Ferguson, C. E., Blythe, J., Morgera, E., Boyd, D., & Côté, I. M. (2023). Environmental (in)justice in the Anthropocene Ocean. Marine Policy, 147, 105383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105383 Boelens, R., A. Escobar, K. Bakker, L. Hommes, E. Swyngedouw, B. Hogenboom, E.H. Huijbens, S. Jackson, J. Vos, L.M. Harris, K.J. Joy, F. de Castro, B. Duarte-Abadía, D. Tubino de Souza, H. Lotz-Sisitka, N. Hernández-Mora, J. Martínez-Alier, D. Roca-Servat, T. Perreault, C. Sanchis-Ibor, D. Suhardiman, A. Ulloa, A. Wals, J. Hoogesteger, J.P. Hidalgo-Bastidas, T. Roa-Avendaño, G.J. Veldwisch, P. Woodhouse & K.M. Wantzen (2022) Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice, The Journal of Peasant Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810 Bowness, E., Wittman, H., Desmarais, A.A., Dring, C., James, D., McIntyre, A. and Martens, T.R. (2022), "Responsibility for Food Sovereignty in an Urbanizing and Risky World 1 ", Schneider, S., Preiss, P.V. and Marsden, T. (Ed.) Food and Agriculture in Urbanized Societies (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 26), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-192220220000026006 Schaffer-Smith, D., Swift, M., Killea, A., Brennan, A., Naidoo, R., & Swenson, J. J. (2022). Tracking a blue wave of ephemeral water across arid Southern Africa. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), 114063. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d9 [PREPRINT] Stock, A., Murray, C. C., Gregr, E. J., Steenbeek, J., Woodburn, E., Micheli, F., Chan, K. M. A. (2022, October 22). Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/rfghy | Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability welcomes staff and students to celebrate the end of term with colleagues from across disciplines and learn how units in CIRS support teaching and research. Light refreshments will be provided. When: Wednesday, December 7, 1pm – 3pm Where: Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, 2260 West Mall RSVP Here | Have news to share or want to unsubscribe? Email us at:
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