IRES Newsletter: May 27, 2024

News & Events

Join us in celebrating our graduating students:

  • Giulia Belotti (MA) - supervised by Milind Kandlikar
  • Gurneet (Ginni) Braich (PhD) - Navin Ramankutty
  • Stephen Chignell (PhD) - Mark Johnson & Terre Satterfield
  • Vincent Chireh (PhD) - Leila Harris & Jordi Honey-Roses
  • Erika Gavenus (PhD) - Terre Satterfield
  • Jumi Gogoi (PhD) - Navin Ramankutty & Nathaniel Newlands
  • Rona MacNicol (MA) - Leila Harris
  • Trisa Ngo (MSc) - Mark Johnson
  • Sarah-Louise Ruder (PhD) - Terre Satterfield & Hannah Wittman
  • Brian Wang (MSc) - Mark Johnson

Congratulations to all! 

Job Opportunities

Postdoctoral Researcher on the governance of decentralized renewable energy systems | Arizona State University

Rolling Deadline

Open-rank research position (PhD Student or Postdoctoral Researcher) in Environmental Governance and Global Development (80-100%)

Deadline May 31

Two postdoctoral positions | Political Ecology and Environmental Justice | Databases and Geographic Information Systems | Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

Deadline May 31

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Graduate Student Opportunities

TA for SCIE 113 in the 2024 Winter session

SCIE 113 is a small-group seminar course, in which first-year science students discuss and define the nature of science, learn to construct and deconstruct an argument, and learn to communicate effectively through writing.

We will begin reviewing applications on April 30, but will accept applications received after then as long as there are open positions remaining.

 

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PhD position at Dublin City University

p the central aim of this PhD project is to analyze trends in land-use regulatory and governance arrangements on the island of Ireland, develop scenario-based analysis of risks associated with policy and governance divergence, and identify potential approaches to mitigate such risks. The project will also focus on the theme of just transitions, and how these can be enabled through strengthened policy and governance frameworks across the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.

Deadline June 14

 

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MSc Opportunity with the Urban Natures Lab @ UBC

The Urban Natures Lab, led by Lorien Nesbitt at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Faculty of Forestry, is recruiting for an MSc position to undertake research on recognition justice in urban greening by exploring grassroots stewardship and underrepresented ways of being, knowing, and seeing in nature. 

Postition starts Sept 2024 or Jan 2025

 

Apply now

 

Water & Environment Student Talks (WEST) Conference 2024

Register today to join WEST 2024 for a dynamic gathering of water researchers!!

May 31, 2024

 

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UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter

Check out the latest UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter for events, workshops, and more! 

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UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Update Newsletter

Check out the latest "GradUpdate" - a weekly snapshot of workshops and opportunities available to UBC graduate students.

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Recent IRES Publications

Brock, S., Baker, L., Jekums, A.,... Wittman, H.,...et al. Knowledge democratization approaches for food systems transformation. Nat Food (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00966-3

Kristen J Sora, Colette C C Wabnitz, Nadja S Steiner, U Rashid Sumaila, Carie Hoover, Andrea Niemi, Lisa L Loseto, Mi-Ling Li, Amanda Giang, Emma Gillies, William W L Cheung, Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024;, fsae062, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae062

Orlova, J., Amiri, F., Bourgeois, A. K., Buttle, J. M., Cherlet, E., Cuss, C. W.,...Mark S. Johnson, Hannah J. McSorley...et al. (2024). Composition of stream dissolved organic matter across Canadian forested ecozones varies in three dimensions linked to landscape and climate. Water Resources Research, 60, e2023WR035196. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035196

Rudri Bhatt, Amanda Giang, Bassam Javed and Milind Kandlikar. Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: Access and experience. Progress in Energy. (2024). DOI 10.1088/2516-1083/ad4b8f

Döbbeling-Hildebrandt, N., Miersch, K., Khanna, T.M [IRES Faculty Associate]. et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing. Nat Commun 15, 4147 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48512-w

External Events

 

MOA is reopening! Celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Museum on June 13 at 5pm.

After an 18-month closure, MOA is thrilled to welcome visitors through our doors once again following the completion of the Great Hall seismic upgrades. Be the first to see the newly rebuilt Great Hall, and experience the revitalized and reinterpreted displays of Northwest Coast Indigenous carvings, poles, weavings and other works from the past and present.

RSVP here

Check the IRES website for up-to-date information on External Events.

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