David Boyd, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of Law, Policy, and Sustainability
Environmental law, environmental policy, rights of nature, right to a healthy environment, human rights and environment, urban sustainability, sustainable development
William Koty, MA
Director, UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
Sustainability continuing education, sustainability professional development, lifelong learning, adult education, climate change education
Naoko Ellis, PhD
Professor
Chemical reaction engineering, multiphase reactors, CO2 capture, bioenergy, sustainability education and leadership, science outreach, sustainable development, systems approach, energy transition, transdisciplinarity, collaborative learning
Prof. Jiaying Zhao, PhD
Associate Professor
Poverty, sustainability, psychology, cognition, decision making, judgment, perception, attention, learning, sustainable development,
Peter Cole
Associate Professor
Ecojustice and sustainability education, Indigenous education, advanced research methodology, indigenizing research, Indigenous community engagement, research with St’at’imc and Kichwa-lamista (high Amazon in Peru) and Cusco-sacred valley area of Peruvian Andes, First Nations and settler relations, language and cultural regeneration, ecotechnology, ecopedagogy, ecoliteracy, environmental studies, researching with Indigenous peoples, human nonhuman and more-than-human relationalities and Indigenous peoples, aboriginal and northern studies, Indigenous rituals and ceremonies, indigeneity and essentialism, cultural appropriation, appropriation of voice, intellectual property appropriation, aboriginal and Indigenous knowledges in the academy, academic colonization, aboriginal peoples and the performing and visual arts, Indigenous traditions in education, Indigenous healing and wellness modalities, Indigenous peoples and genocide, Indigenous peoples and place-based education, sustainable development
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity
Dr. Sahil Bhandari, PhD
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow
Environment, Environmental engineering, Environmental politics, Pollution, Sustainability, Sustainability in Building and Transportation,
Kai Chan, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services, ecosystem-based management, biodiversity conservation, sustainability science, social-ecological systems, environmental assessment, environmental policy, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Kees Lokman, MDesS, MSc
Associate Professor
coastal adaptation, planning and design of infrastructure to address climate risk and sustainability
Navin Ramankutty
Professor
sustainable agriculture, food systems, climate change, global environmental change, global data, global models,
John Innes
Professor
Forestry, forest management, forest certification, aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystems, forest management, forest policy, social impact, sustainability, drought, forest fires, wildfires, heat waves, people’s responses to heat waves, impact of heat waves on forests, adaptation of forests to climate change, responses of resorts (such as Whistler) to climate change, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Martin Ordonez, PhD, PEng
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair – Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems | Holder of the Fred Kaiser Professorship on Power Conversion and Sustainability | Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics | Editor, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
Canada Research Chair in Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems
Energy systems, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, battery systems, fuel cells, electric vehicles, smart grid, sustainable development
Gordon Richard Lovegrove, PEng, MBA, PhD, FITE
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator, Sustainable Transport Safety Research Laboratory
Chair, Sustainable Development Committee and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
Sustainability, sustainable transportation, transportation planning, sustainable road safety, sustainable communities, transportation demand management, safety audits, macro-level collision prediction models, social cost benefit analyses, sustainable development, public transport, public transit
Linda Nowlan
Senior Director, Sustainability Hub
Ocean law, marine law, environmental law, biodiversity law, climate justice, climate law, Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability, sustainable development, university sustainability, university climate action, university climate justice
Dr. Melissa McHale, PhD
Associate Professor
Urban Forestry, Urban Ecology, Urban Sustainability, Sustainability Science, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Ecology, Carbon Cycling, Social-Ecological Studies, Transdisciplinary Science, Landscape Preferences, Land Cover Land Use Change, Equity, Environmental Justice, Urban Tree Canopy, Urbanization, African Cities, Urban Ecosystem Convergence, Urban Homogenization,
Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
Agriculture, Climate change, Environment, Farming, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, India, Water, Irrigation, Global environmental change, Crop yields, Crop models, IPCC, Food production,
Prof. Robert Godin
Assistant Professor
Chemistry, spectroscopy, photocatalysis, solar energy, solar fuels, sustainability, semiconductors, water purification,
Cristiano Loss
Assistant Professor in Timber Engineering
Associate Chair of UBC Wood Building Design and Construction
Timber Engineering, Timber Design, Mass Timber Assemblies, Engineered Wood Products, Sustainability, Reliability-Based Design, Seismic Design, Dynamic of Structures, Design by Testing, Design for Deconstruction,
Naomi Zimmerman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Air pollution, climate change, vehicle emissions, urban sustainability, low cost sensors, environmental policy, aerosols, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, air quality
William Cheung
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change)
Director, Changing Ocean Research Unit
Director of Science of Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program
Global change, climate change, oceans, fisheries, biodiversity, marine and coastal, ecosystems, conservation, adaptation, impact assessment, fisheries management, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases