IRES Newsletter: May 29, 2023 | Congratulations to IRES's May 2023 Graduates! IRES is proud to celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of our graduates!
| Ilke Geladi, whose research explores questions related to the conservation of landbirds in the agricultural zone of Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos archipelago, won the Department of Zoology's Teaching Assistant Award.
Nominated by peers and colleagues, Annie Lalande was one of the recipients of the Sustainability Hub’s new Sustainability Leadership awards, which recognize outstanding leadership to address climate change, reverse biodiversity loss, shift to circular economies, and create more resilient communities. Read more here. | Episode 6 of Biodiversity Speaks: Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict Another episode of Biodiversity Speaks is out! In this episode, Dr. Sumeet Gulati from our Seminar Series is featured. Check these services for episodes: Apple, Spotify Listen in your browser! | | Join this workshop series organized by IRES grad student Sarah- Louis Ruder, from May 10 - June 14. Register | Postdoc Fellowship | Nature United Nature United, University of Victoria, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, aim to develop a framework and applied survey-based tool that can assess the degree to which the current management systems for Canadian fish stocks are adaptive and responsive to climate variability and change. This project seeks to produce outputs to tangibly support climate adaptation in Canadian fisheries. Deadline: June 9, 2023 Apply Here | | Invitation to Regional Preparatory Meetings for COP-5 COP-5, the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, has invited IRES to its events, Asia Pacific (AP), Africa (A), Eastern European (EE), and Latin America/ Caribbean (LAC) regional meetings for COP-5. Deadline varies depending on location. Click below to learn more about each specific event: AP A EE LAC | | Call for Proposals for COP-5 Events COP-5, the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, has an open call for proposals for online events and Knowledge Lab sessions. COP-5 events are an informal platform to share and advance knowledge in technology, research, and policy to the attention of Parties and to the global community that the Convention serves. Deadline: June 21, 2023 Learn More | | Webinar- Protected Areas, Biodiversity, and Climate Goals | CPPCL CPPCL, Canadian Parks, Protected and Conserved Areas Leadership Collective, introduces ways to use WWF- Canada's Beyond Targets report and National Carbon Map to guide decision making. Deadline: June 1, 2023 Apply Here | | Call for Application: Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund Apply for up to $1,500 to fill small resource gaps and empower community partners to build reciprocal relationships with UBC students, faculty, and staff. There is a total of $75,000 available to fund up to 50 projects. Deadline: open until filled Apply Here | | Postdoc Scholar- National Renewable Lab & US Energy Department Lay the foundation for activities that infuse environmental, climate, and energy justice (ECEJ) considerations into the research, development, deployment, and commercial activities (RDD&CA) supported by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and the Water Power Program at NREL. Deadline: June 5, 2023 Apply Here | | TA Position - SCIE 300 | University of British Columbia SCIE 300 at UBC introduces students to a variety of methods for communicating scientific information. It focuses on both communicating within scientific communities and to non-expert audiences. Deadline: June 10, 2023 Learn More | | Registration now open for Digital Research Alliance for Canada The Researcher Council plays an important role in informing the Alliance’s infrastructure and data management strategy for academic researchers across Canada. UBC researchers are encouraged to consider putting their name forward for this opportunity to influence digital research infrastructure. Deadline: June 5, 2023 Apply Here
| | Call for Application: Fellowships at Digital Policy Hub The New Digital Policy Hub will host a diverse group of emerging, innovative thinkers to further develop their own research, analytical, and policy skills. Rolling Deadline Apply Here | | Call for Application: STRONG Manooim Collective The Collective, supports Indigenous- led, data driven resilience strategies through soverignty-affirming and culturally empowering collaborative research, is seeking 2 postdoctoral scholars for Indigenous environmental governance at NorthWestern University. Deadline: May 31, 2023 Apply Here | | Registration now open for Designing for Transformation! Registration is now open to UBC graduate students for Designing for Transformation – a free, non-credit course for learning and applying approaches from social innovation, systemic design and regenerative development, using equity-centered and decolonizing methodologies. Module 2 Registration Deadline: June 3, 2023 Learn More
| | Call for Application: Graduate Writing Consultant | Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication The Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication (CWSC) delivers evidence-based writing consultations, workshops, and resources to UBC Vancouver community members. We model best practices that support and promote linguistic diversity, expression, and identity in accord with UBC’s decolonizing, anti-racist, and inclusive Pathway to excellence. Thus, we seek graduate students who reflect UBC’s diversity, particularly those who identify as IBPOC. Deadline: June 23, 2023 Learn More | | Tiny Beam Fund Fellowship Opportunities Tiny Beam Fund – a small US-based charitable foundation – is offering funds to academic researchers interested in drivers and negative impacts of large-scale, industrial animal agriculture, especially concerning LMICs (low- and middle-income countries). Deadline: June 8, 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 | | Wittman, H. (2023). Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.04.011 Laskar, I. I., & Giang, A. (2023). Policy approaches to mitigate in-use methane emissions from natural gas use as a marine fuel. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/accf33 Alava, J. J., ... & Gunilla Öberg (2023). A Call to Include Plastics in the Global Environment in the Class of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Pollutants. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c02476 Kremen, C. et al., (2023). Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2923694/v1 Zhao, J., and Chen, F. (2023). I-frame Interventions Enhance S-frame Interventions. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/46vda | How can the climate justice movements in South Asia, like resistance to uranium mining and reactors, be a lens through which we can understand our own similar movements in the Pacific Northwest? And elsewhere too? Please come and engage in this dialogue, bringing your experience and research in other non-nuclear fields to contribute! Learn More | Have news to share or want to unsubscribe? Email us at:
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