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
Alexander Bigazzi
Associate Professor
Transportation engineering, transportation planning, air pollution, emissions, traffic management, active transportation, bicycling, sustainable development, air quality, public transport, public transit
Ingrid Stairs
Professor
Pulsars, gravity, general relativity, radio astronomy, radio pulsars, pulsar searches and long-term timing, solar system, space science
Kris Sigurdson, PhD
Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology
The universe, cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, cosmic 21-cm fluctuations, radio astronomy, CHIME, solar system, space science
Mark Halpern, PhD
Professor
Cosmology, cosmic background radiation, history of star formation, measuring the geometry and contents of the universe, satellites, balloon-borne telescopes, the physics of music, solar system, space science
Jeremy Heyl, AB (Princeton), MSc (Cambridge), PhD (UCSC)
Professor
Neutron stars, high-energy astrophysics, black holes, x-ray astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, stars, quantum field theory, white dwarfs, solar system, space science
Paul Hickson
Professor
Astrophysics, cosmology, galaxies, telescopes, clusters, instrumentation, adaptive optics, solar system, space science
William Unruh
Professor
Black holes, cosmology, quantum computers, theory of gravity, solar system, space science
Douglas Scott, PhD
Professor
Cosmology, the Universe, large scale structure, cosmic microwave background, dark matter, galaxies, astrophysics, solar system, space science
William McCutcheon
Professor Emeritus
Radio astronomy, star formation, interstellar medium, radio telescopes, solar system, space science
Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD
Professor
MOST: Canada’s first space telescope, pulsating stars and the nature of stars in general, search for and study of extrasolar planets, public education in astronomy, tracking asteroids from space, solar system, space science
Navin Ramankutty
Professor
sustainable agriculture, food systems, climate change, global environmental change, global data, global models,
David Hardisty, PhD
Associate Professor
Consumer behaviour, sustainability, energy efficiency, decisions about the future, product attribute framing, consumer psychology, sustainable development
Sean Smukler, PhD
Associate Professor, Applied Biology & Soil Science
Junior Chair, Agriculture and the Environment
Agriculture, environment, sustainable development, ecosystem services, biological diversity
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
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,
Dr. Steven Hallam, PhD
Professor
Microbial ecology, biological engineering, bioinformatics, entrepreneurship, genomics, single-cell genomics, metabolic pathway inference, metagenomics, environmental genomics, automation systems, synthetic biology, machine learning, information aesthetics, science communication, scholarship of education leadership, functional screening, biocatalyst discovery, bioeconomy, bioenergy, microplastics, anaerobic digestion, cyanobacteria, metabolic interaction networks, symbiosis, climate change, oxygen minimum zones, oceanography, sustainability,
Dr. Alison McAfee, PhD, BSc
Postdoctoral Fellow
Honey bees, honey bees fertility, heatwaves, honey bee queens, honey bee drones, varroa, genetics, breeding,
Dr. Shandin Pete
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Indigenous science, Indigenous research methodology, hydrology, ethnohydrology, hydrogeology, surface water/groundwater interaction, culturally congruent instruction, ethnography, Indigenous astronomy, Indigenous philosophies,