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Dr. Isla Myers-Smith

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. Gregory Paradis, RPF, P.Eng.

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,

Simon Donner

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

John Innes

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

William Cheung

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

Dr. Elizabeth  Wolkovich, PhD

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,

Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD

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,

Dr. Stephen R.J. Sheppard, PhD

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

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

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,

Navin Ramankutty

Navin Ramankutty

Professor

sustainable agriculture, food systems, climate change, global environmental change, global data, global models,

Naoko Ellis, PhD

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

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

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

Dr. Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC

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,

Dr. Sean Fleming

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,

Dr. Tim McDaniels, PhD

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,

Ms. Elise Legarth, MSc

Ms. Elise Legarth, MSc

PhD Student, Weather Forecast Research Team

Hydrometerology, hydrology, water resources, probable maximum precipitation, probable maximum flood, flooding, flood risk management, forecasting, extreme rainfall events, weather, climate change, numerical weather prediction, computational modeling, environmental management, horticultural and agricultural systems water supply and water quality, land-use change

Tongli Wang

Tongli Wang

Assistant Professor, Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics

Research Associate, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences

Climate models, climate change adaptation, ecosystem climate projection, species range projection, assisted migration, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases