IRES Newsletter: November 25, 2024

News, Events and Updates

A short film created as a partnership between Okanagan Nation Alliance and IRES graduate student Anna Santo is a selection for the BC Environmental Film Festival!

This short documentary showcases the Joint Nations Grizzly Bear Initiative which was established to honour the cultural significance of grizzly bears to First Nations in southwest British Columbia and to steward their recovery in the North Cascades region.

Tickets

For our last seminar of the year, Victor Cardenas and Ted Scott share their work answering how climate change impacts vulnerable smallholder farmers and the summer season length at a global and multi-scale. 

More info and Zoom link

Research with tangible outcomes— that's what 4 IRES grad students are being recognized for by UBC's Public Scholar Initiative!

Congratulations to Manvi Bhalla, Nicole Kaechele, Bulgan Batdorj and Gopal Khanal for being named as Public Scholars!

Recent IRES Publications

Eyster, H. N., Chan, K. M., Fletcher, M. E., & Beckage, B. (2024). Space‐for‐time substitutions exaggerate urban bird–habitat ecological relationships. Journal of Animal Ecology.

S. Nawaz [IRES alum], D. McLaren, H. Caggiano, A. D. Hudson, & C. Scott-Buechler (2024). Carbon removal for a just transition. Climate Policy, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2418305

Achar, J., Firman, J. W., Cronin, M. T., & Öberg, G. (2024). A framework for categorizing sources of uncertainty in in silico toxicology methods: considerations for chemical toxicity predictions. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 105737.

Shah, S. H., Harris, L. M., Joy, K. J., Birkenholtz, T., & Ajibade, I. (2024). Re-conceptualizing climate maladaptation: Complementing social-ecological interactions with relational socionatures. Global Environmental Change, 88, 102910.

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