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
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity
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
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. Sahil Bhandari, PhD
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow
Environment, Environmental engineering, Environmental politics, Pollution, Sustainability, Sustainability in Building and Transportation,
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
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,
Prof. Jiaying Zhao, PhD
Associate Professor
Poverty, sustainability, psychology, cognition, decision making, judgment, perception, attention, learning, sustainable development,
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
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,
Tara Moreau, PhD
Sessional Instructor
Associate Director, Sustainability and Community Programs
Sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, urban agriculture, community-based research, biodiversity, integrated pest management, best management practices, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, resilience, food policy, non-profit organizations, social enterprise, biological diversity, sustainable development, crop farming, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
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,
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
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
Kees Lokman, MDesS, MSc
Associate Professor
coastal adaptation, planning and design of infrastructure to address climate risk and sustainability
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,
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,
Emily Cranston
Associate Professor
President’s Excellence Chair in Forest Bioproducts
Bio-based materials, cleantech, value-added products from the forest, nanocellulose, circular bioeconomy, plastic replacements, polymers, plastics, bio-products, nanotechnology, microscopy, green chemistry and engineering, sustainability, nano biocomposites, cellulose