2024 Geography Climate Change Colloquium

May 2, 2024, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Climate Change Colloquium

The graduate reps/members of the Department of Geography Climate Action Committee, George Porto and Angel Bella, invite you to attend the 2nd* biennial Graduate Climate Colloquium Thursday May 2 at 12:30-2:00 pm in Geog Room 214.  A Zoom option is also available. 

This event explores Climate-themed research featuring 5 graduate student speakers. Pizza/snacks provided by the CAC co-Chairs. Hope to see you there! 

Date: Thursday May 2, 12:30-2:00 PM;

Location: Geography Bldg., Rm 214

Speakers (10 min panelists):

  • Nicola Rammell: Effects of climate warming on plant community traits in a High Arctic shrub tundra ecosystem
  • Erika Siao: Unpacking “Queer Climate Justice”: Lessons from organizers in the SF Bay area
  • Max Cohen: Just a Transition? Cleaning up Capitalism in the Shetland Islands, Scotland UK
  • Mohammed Gazali: Rural Northern and Island communities in Ghana: New territories for investments in solar energy?
  • George Ferreira: How to reduce carbon emissions from illegal deforestation in tropical forests.

And: To finish off, there will be a brief unveiling of the EWOCS (Extreme Weather Occurrences Crowd-sourcing) interactive map, created by George Porto, with Andrew Yan, Kellen Malek, and the Geog CAC.

Zoom link

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

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