Dr. Isla Myers-Smith
Professor
Arctic, climate change, tundra, boreal forest, alpine, treeline, Canadian North, plants, shrubs, ecology, biodiversity, phenology, Arctic greening, permafrost, ecological data science, remote sensing, drones, satellites
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,
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
Simon Donner
Professor
Climate change, climate change policy, ocean conservation, marine science, coral reefs, water pollution, nutrient pollution, climate change adaptation, Pacific Islands, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Dr. Gregory Paradis, RPF, P.Eng.
Assistant Professor
forest management and planning, harvest scheduling, timber harvesting, climate change mitigation, forest carbon modelling, forest industry, supply chain planning, forest resource analysis, landscape-level modelling, forest economics, operations research, optimization, industrial engineering, business analytics,
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
Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich, PhD
Associate Professor
Field ecology, causes and consequences of plant invasions, effects of climate change on plant communities, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases,
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
Dr. Stephen R.J. Sheppard, PhD
Professor Emeritus and former Director of Bachelor of Urban Forestry Program
Future climate change scenarios, community engagement, landscape architecture, urban forestry, greenway planning, sustainable communities, social aspects of forestry, visual quality / visual impacts of clear-cutting, climate change videogames, computer mapping and animation, local climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation, GIS, visualization, behaviour change, social mobilization on climate change, citizen science, renewable energy, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases,
Vicky Wing Yee Lam, PhD
Program Manager / Research Associate
Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program
Fisheries economics, climate change, adaptation, fisheries management, global change, vulnerability assessment, spatial analysis, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Grace Nosek, BA, LLM, JD
PhD Candidate in Law
climate justice, climate misinformation, API, fossil fuel industry, climate anxiety, industry lobbying, climate protests, climate litigation, youth climate organizing, hope on climate, climate and mental health, youth climate strikers, climate narratives,
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,
Navin Ramankutty
Professor
sustainable agriculture, food systems, climate change, global environmental change, global data, global models,
Kathryn Harrison, PhD
Professor
Canadian politics, environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, Canadian government, Federal-provincial relations, carbon pricing
Greg Henry, PhD
Professor
Arctic tundra ecosystems, climate change, warming experiments, plant adaptation, caribou and muskox populations, Arctic climate reconstruction, the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ArcticNet, the International Polar Year (IPY), biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Michele Koppes, PhD
Associate Professor
Climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Dr. Tim McDaniels, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Risk management and decision making processes for environmental, technological and health hazards. Analysis of infrastructure systems in extreme events. Environmental values and valuation. Decision analysis. Risk Analysis. Forestry, fisheries and environmental resource management given climate change. Climate change and infrastructure,
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
Dr. Tara Martin, PhD
Professor
Decision science, biodiversity, climate change, climate models, conservation, ecological monitoring, ecology, land-use change, landscape ecology, landscape planning, modelling, structured decision-making, climate adaptation, endangered species
Dr. Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Assistant Clinical Professor
public health, COVID-19, health equity, health disparities, social determinants of health, environmental health, healthy built environments, climate change and health,