Events Calendar

https://youtu.be/rC5Q-ToNFTM Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97771223323 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Sabine Loos, Mendenhall Fellow USGS and CU Boulder Natural Hazards Center Abstract: Many data sources that become available after a disaster—such as satellite imagery or reconnaissance surveys—have immense power to inform decisions that influence the trajectory of the affected country for years afterwards. However, often these ... Read more

https://youtu.be/f-pdkwi0SH0 Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97771223323 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Morteza Karimzadeh Abstract: Short-term forecasts of COVID-19 spread have been used for planning intervention strategies and resource allocation. Observed patterns of cases, deaths, and hospitalizations, as well as measurements of human interaction through proxies such as social connectedness or population movement have proved useful for predictive ... Read more

https://youtu.be/BZRN_TIlAQ0 Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97771223323 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: David Cook-Martín Abstract: Migration scholarship has a bias toward permanence and integration. Its working and implicit assumption is that migration statuses are or should be permanent, a step on the way to residence and naturalization. Yet temporariness has been a longstanding if invisible strategy to govern ... Read more

https://youtu.be/sHYRa93pFqQ Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97771223323 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Jason Lang, Abstract: Dissemination of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) is increasingly being touted as an important strategy for improving children’s behavioral health services. However, the promise of increasing access to EBTs has been tempered by the realities of community-based mental health practice and reimbursement. This presentation will ... Read more

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaW9Rt7tMyQ In-person or via Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95248394614 - email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. *Light lunch served at 1145, please RSVP. Speaker:  Katie Massey Combs Abstract:  Roughly half of females with child welfare involvement (i.e., child protective services) report a pregnancy by age 19, which is twice the rate of a national sample of youth of ... Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qu9fhW0q8 In-person or via Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95248394614 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. *Light lunch served at 1145, please RSVP. Speaker: Victor Marchezini Abstract: Social and climate crises call for the development of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary methods that can subsidy disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policies. In the international context, the International Science ... Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSnTeMhm34 In-person or via Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95248394614 - email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. *Light lunch served at 1145, please RSVP. Speaker:  Amanda Carrico Abstract: Migration has long been used as a strategy for households to access economic opportunity and manage environmental risk. As climate change intensifies in the 21st Century, environmental stress is expected to play ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Understanding the Great Resignation - Worker Reallocation following the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract: In the last two years, the U.S. labor market has experienced a tumultuous and incomplete recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: employment converged very slowly ... Read more

https://youtu.be/-FjbNJ1IOJE Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: From the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon: Exploring Alternative Approaches for Framing, Writing, and Engaging with Tropical Forest Conservation Abstract: What drives social-environmental activism in tropical forest regions around the world? How do key actors ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Exploring Bias in Denver Public Schools’ Multi-Measure Teacher Evaluation System Abstract:  Multi-measure teacher evaluation systems are the norm in school districts across the nation. Stemming, in part, from the Race to the Top federal funding competition ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Explaining Negative Views of Ethnic Others  Abstract: What causes members of one ethnic group to hold negative views about members of another group? We theorize that exposure to information about the group being threatening triggers such ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Governing Disaster, Sustaining Accumulation: Extraction as Environmentality Abstract: Alongside hastening climate emergency and global crises of governance, it is essential to develop a dynamic political ecology of disaster so that we might better understand the roots ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The past, present, and future of abortion and contraception in the US: Insights from and challenges for demography Abstract: In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court ended 50 years of legal protections for right to ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title:  Covid-19 and Conservation/Tourism: Lessons learned from dryland communities in East and Southern Africa. With: Joana Roque de Pinho, University Institute of Lisbon; Angela Kronenburg García, University of Padua; Eduard Gargallo, University Institute of Lisbon; Jona Heita, ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Investigating the role of equity and sense of place in climate adaptation Abstract:  As climate change worsens and exposes vulnerable populations to natural hazards, there is a growing call to understand the nuances and complexities of ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Indigenous Access, Conservation, and Land-Based Education in Oklahoma Abstract: Indigenous Nations face significant challenges when it comes to the interrelated processes of cultural knowledge revitalization and environmental adaptation. These challenges range from compromised local ecological health brought ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies Abstract: In this presentation, Harrison will present key findings from her book, From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies, ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Rising Pressure: The Embodiment of Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Hispanic/Latinx Families in Changing Neighborhoods Abstract:  Exclusionary displacement occurs when individuals leave housing in neighborhoods but are unable to move into other housing options in similar neighborhoods ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Uncovering new links between climate change, air quality, natural disasters, and American society Abstract: The U.S. remains a large contributor to climate change while also being adversely affected by it through, among other pathways, air pollution ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Ecology of Agglomeration and the Rise of Chaco Great Houses Abstract:  Decisions individuals make about where to live have profound consequences for everything from climate and conflict to migration, inequality, the origins of agriculture, and ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Enhancing the study of racial/ethnic disparities in health: A project linking Medicaid and Census Bureau data Abstract: Medicaid data are used frequently to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in health. However, there is considerable variation in ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Mental health and trauma exposure among recent Latinx immigrant adults: study goals and research progress Abstract:  Exposure to violence and trauma in Latin America significantly contributes to migration to the U.S., bringing attention to the mental ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Contextual Risk Factors Associated with Youth Suicides in the U.S. Bio: Erin Wright Kelly, DrPH, MA is a Research Associate at the Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Connecting the Past and Present of Inequality through Archaeology Abstract:  Economic inequality is an important issue in the world today, and the difficulty in reducing it has led many to presume it is an intrinsic property ... Read more