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We are excited to announce that Trent University in collaboration with the IIES has been selected as one of the recipients of the prestigious 2025 Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) grant program. With this grant, the IIES will coordinate the United Global Plan of Action for One Health and One Climate initiative, which involves critical collaborations with partners in Chile, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and beyond.
The IIES is delighted to welcome its newest member, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, Canada. The MOU, signed in August 2024, establishes a partnership aimed at fostering collaboration in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members while advancing their shared vision of creating sustainable solutions to global environmental challenges.
We were thrilled to return to one of our member institutions for the 7th International Graduate Student Forum, hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on October 29, 2024. The Grad Forum brings together graduate students from IIES member institutions to share and discuss environmental research from diverse perspectives.
This new collaboration between the IIES and the University of the Witwatersrand aims to facilitate cooperation in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members in the areas of climate change, legacy challenges from the mining sector, poor governance leading to infrastructural decay and a growing population.
The MOU, signed in April 2024, between the IIES and the INCT-TMCOcean aims to facilitate cooperation in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members in the areas of related ecosystem services, biodiversity, regional and global changes between Brazil and IIES Member countries.
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Upcoming Intensive Online Course in Collaboration with Trent University
Online Course | Spring 2025
We are excited to provide support in the development of a new online course at Trent University, Isotope Hydrology, coming next Spring 2025. This course will introduce participants to the principles of stable isotope geochemistry as applied to catchment hydrology and ecohydrology, providing a broader understanding of environmental research in the hydrosphere. The course will be co-led by a team of instructors with diverse backgrounds who actively use isotopes in their research, ensuring a rich learning experience while exposing participants to different topics. More details to come.
Registration will open soon!
Membership Agreements
The IIES is delighted to welcome its newest member, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, Canada. The MOU, signed in August 2024, establishes a partnership aimed at fostering collaboration in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members while advancing their shared vision of creating sustainable solutions to global environmental challenges.
This new collaboration between the IIES and the University of the Witwatersrand aims to facilitate cooperation in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members in the areas of climate change, legacy challenges from the mining sector, poor governance leading to infrastructural decay and a growing population.
The MOU, signed in April 2024, between the IIES and the INCT-TMCOcean aims to facilitate cooperation in the academic and research missions of IIES’s members in the areas of related ecosystem services, biodiversity, regional and global changes between Brazil and IIES Member countries.
Online Lecture Series
The overarching theme of this series is “improving water security” but the presentations touch on many pillars of the International Institute for Environmental Studies, for example water quality and emerging pollutants relating to environmental health.
Mangroves are one of the most efficient and effective natural tools for mitigating and adapting to global change in tropical and subtropical coasts. This seminar series thus focuses on the environmental impacts on, and mangrove response to, global change and on the outcomes of restoration and improved capacities of mangroves to mitigate pressures from global change.
Of the 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste produced globally, less than 10% has been recycled (UNEP). While there is a huge problem with plastic waste generally, more recently researchers have begun to identify problems associated with microplastics, i.e. very small particles of plastic that are either released directly to the environment or are formed in situ.
