Scott McDougall
Assistant Professor
Geological engineering, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, landslides, landslide-generated waves/tsunamis, shoreline erosion and dam breaches
Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD
Research Associate & Principal Investigator
marine eco-toxicology, ocean conservation and pollution, environmental toxicology and chemistry, food web bioaccumulation modeling of pollutants (Bioaccumulation Science), ocean pollution by plastics/microplastics, sea turtles and marine mammals’ eco-toxicology, marine ecology, conservation biology, tropical biodiversity, and ecology, fishery science and management, climate change science, the impact of climate change and acidification in marine organisms and fisheries, climate change adaptation strategies in fisheries, population dynamics and conservation of marine mammals, biology and conservation of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, field ornithology, aquatic microbiology, eco-toxicological risk assessment, environmental impact assessments and environmental policy, public health, tropical parasitology, and environmental/conservation medicine,
Alla Sheffer, CS, PhD
Professor
Computer graphics, computer aided design, digital media
Ivan Beschastnikh
Professor
Software engineering, software systems, distributed systems, distributed computing, systems security and privacy, internet, web, cloud computing, information technology
Dr. Sean Fleming
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Applied R&D Technical Lead, National Water and Climate Center, US Department of Agriculture
Water resources, hydrology, flooding, water supply, water quality, rivers, groundwater, forecasting, prediction, computational modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, climate variability, climate change, contaminated sites, environmental remediation, mountain glaciers, geophysics, practical applications, environmental monitoring, environmental management, water resource management, environmental policy, public engagement, science and society,
Mark Schmidt
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Machine Learning
Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, numerical optimization, data science, Medical AI,
Lorne Whitehead, PhD
Professor
Illuminating engineering, electronic displays, light sources, colour vision, associated technical standards, associated research techniques
Reid Holmes
Associate Professor
Software engineering, human aspects of software, mining software repositories, understanding software systems, software reuse, software tools, software testing, software quality
Robert Raussendorf, PhD
Associate Professor
Quantum computation, quantum information, quantum fault-tolerance
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
Michelle Tseng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Insects, freshwater ecology, plant-animal interactions, biological diversity
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity
Leonid Sigal
Associate Professor
Computer vision, machine learning, deep learning
Marie Auger-Methe
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Statistical Ecology)
Statistical methods to study marine and polar animals, behaviour, population, polar bears, narwhals, penguins, fish, animal movement
Dr. David Rosen, PhD
Assistant Professor
marine mammals, animal physiology, marine conservation, animal welfare, seals, sea lions, walrus, behaviour, ecology of marine mammals, bioenergetics, nutrition, conservation physiology, navigation,
Aaron Boley, PhD
Associate Professor
Astronomy, planetary science, solar system, space science
Brian Hunt, PhD
Assistant Professor
UBC Hakai Professor in Oceanography
Plankton, oceanography, ecosystems, salmon, ocean ecology of salmon, food webs, British Columbia, forage fish, ocean observing, changing oceans, ocean science
Katie Marshall, PhD
Assistant Professor
Freeze tolerance, entomology, overwintering biology, spruce budworm, intertidal animals
Amanda Giang
Assistant Professor
Mercury pollution, toxic chemicals, air pollution, global environmental governance, air quality modelling, environmental justice, science policy, environmental policy analysis, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Ali Ameli
Assistant Professor
Groundwater, ecohydrology, hydrology, hydrogeological engineering, watershed management, land-use change, wetland, forest management