Between 2024's challenges and 2025's unknowns, here's a bright spot: our team's cultural favorites from the year. Books, shows, and moments that made us think, laugh, and feel.
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Join a special @CascadeInst Speaker Series presentation with Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard of @KingsCollegeLon for a crucial discussion on how ideological competition drives Russia's war in #Ukraine.
📅 Jan 16, 1PM PST
📍 In-person + Zoom
📨RSVP required
https://t.co/OOBWYKINbY
Dr. @amandagiang's lab is looking for a GAA to develop decision support for assessing alternative technologies for reducing the environmental impacts of marine shipping!
Application instructions: https://t.co/QI6bZsMRaG
Enjoyed the UBC sustainability photo pop-up. Great chance to think differently about themes in my work and see some great contributions at the exhibit. Photos are in the atrium of the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at UBC for another week or so. @sustainUBC
@ColinDMello Considering public participation and MZOs in Ontario, our paper ‘Assessing policy robustness under the COVID-19 crisis: an empirical study of the environmental policymaking system in Ontario, Canada’, may be of interest. @Nayer_Mnsl@AidinAkb https://t.co/S4Pmal9lYS
Quirks and quarks interviewed @sylvspraak and me about our experiment showing rain gardens could help protect salmon from toxic road runoff! https://t.co/8MMWiTgySp
@amandagiang @rachelcscholes@ubcires@UBCNews
🚢 Could liquefied natural gas (LNG) have climate benefits if used as a marine fuel in place of heavy fuel oil⛽️?
Not if methane emissions (or methane slip) remain unregulated.
Imranul Laskar & @amandagiang identify policies to mitigate methane slip: https://t.co/uyIzQQm9YC
Great to see our work getting out there! Big shout out to co-first author Yanru Wang, collaborators at the City of Vancouver @sylvspraak and elsewhere @rachelcscholes @amandagiang @CLJohannessen
New paper out showing that #RainGardens can protect salmon from toxic road runoff (https://t.co/BG2ZGa5N1k)! @rachelcscholes @amandagiang @sylvspraak @ubcires (1/3)
Mari-Tech 2023 is heading to Vancouver, BC from April 18-20, 2023 and we can't wait to see you there!
For more information, go to:
https://t.co/dVQo5GaBWM
#MT2023#MariTechConf
Green cities can help keep our environment free of chemicals! Our new paper in @NatureComms shows how more greenspace can help our cities remove hazardous chemicals. See our blog post - https://t.co/8GYW4s7w2X for full details! @AmanSaini @AmandaGiang @EmmaGillies14 (1/5)
On Feb. 3-9 Clear Seas will present at the International Marine Protected Areas Congress, for #IMPAC5, amongst conservation professionals, government officials and Indigenous leaders from around the world. More here: https://t.co/FnMNf2Oq5I
@IMPAC5Canada
#CCGLive – FINAL UPDATE about the MV Europe fuel spill, Vancouver: This morning, two Shoreline Clean-up Assessment Teams walked the shorelines to search for any signs of fuel and none has been reported. Since the initial release on Saturday, there has been no further pollution.
#CCGLive UPDATE: MV Europe fuel spill: this morning we are tracking a slick from the initial release of fuel using air and on-water resources in coordination with @MarineResponse. The slick is estimated to be approximately 60-100L of fuel.
Federal, provincial, municipal and First Nations officials have been called in to assess the impact of a fuel spill in English Bay Saturday. https://t.co/BvuJaf8LQT
New paper with Keith Hipel and @peterajohnson, online with Environmental Values: Analysing and Anticipating Conflict using a Values-Centred Online Survey https://t.co/QGYCwLKX21
Using the graph model for conflict resolution, @simonephilpot and Hipel respond to a proposed aggregate mine in a part of Waterloo, Ontario. These models lay the groundwork for future assessments of decision-makers' motivations, perceptions, and strategies https://t.co/wiv8NrbCtz