| Patrick Kirchen |
UBC Vancouver |
Thermochemical energy conversion; Understanding the impacts of engine operating parameters such as fuel type, injection strategies, and charge preparation on the fundamental combustion and emission formation processes. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Transportation, Hydrogen |
| Bern Klein |
UBC Vancouver |
Technology and innovation for improved energy efficiency and reduced environmental footprint in mining; Geometallurgy; Energy-efficient comminution technologies. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering |
Mining |
| Naomi Klein |
UBC Vancouver |
Gender, race, class; Power, colonialism, justice; Climate emergency as a catalyst for bold, justice-based transformation in our bio-region and beyond, with particular attention to the intersections between climate justice and Indigenous land rights; Gendered and racialized labour of care; Rights of migrants. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Centre for Climate Justice; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Justice, Policy and Governance, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation |
| Peter Klein |
UBC Vancouver |
Global journalism; Under-covered issues around the world; Producing; Investigative reporting; Health; Corruption and national security; Documentaries. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Journalism, Writing, and Media; Coordinated Arts Program; Centre for Migration Studies |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Brian Klinkenberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Endangered species (plants); Conservation biology; Health geography; Uncertainty; Advanced spatial analysis in the physical, health and social sciences; Medical biogeography; Geographic Information Science; Landscape classification; Biogeography; Environmental geography; Human-ecosystem interactions and conservation biology; Biodiversity informatics. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography |
Health and Wellbeing, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Biodiversity, Land Use |
| Thorsten Knipfer |
UBC Vancouver |
Drought stress responses of woody perennial crops at micro- and macroscopy level using a combination of cutting-edge and traditional research tools; Spatiotemporal coupling of organ and cell specific processes that govern whole-plant performance under water stress by drought and following soil rehydration. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Plant-Water Relations Lab; Applied Biology Program |
Agriculture, Water Resources and Supply, Weather and Climate Extremes |
| Michael Kobor |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental and biological factors that affect genome function and gene expression; DNA packaging; Molecular machinery of the DNA packaging process as it relates to fetal alcohol syndrome, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Effects of socio-economic status on gene expression. |
Faculty of Medicine |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging; Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics; Social Exposome Cluster |
Health and Wellbeing |
| Michael Koehle |
UBC Vancouver |
The interaction between exercise and environmental pollution; Health interventions; Health promotion; High performance sport; Physiology; Systems biology. |
Faculty of Education |
School of Kinesiology; Air Pollution Exposure Laboratory (APEL) |
Health and Wellbeing, Pollution |
| Hoi Kong |
UBC Vancouver |
Constitutional law; Administrative law; Municipal and comparative law; Constitutional and public law theory; Administrative law and regulatory governance; Comparative law; Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change; Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies; Public and constitutional law. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Asian Legal Studies |
Environmental Law, Policy and Governance |
| Michele Koppes |
UBC Vancouver |
Glaciers, mountains, and the people who dwell within them's response to ongoing climate change; Landscape and hazards responses to changing ice dynamics; Effects of climate change on meltwater resources and on mountain cultures; Lived experiences of people living with the cascading effects of climate change in glacial regions. |
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science |
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Department of Geography |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Climate Risk Management, Freshwater Systems, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Rural and Northern Communities |
| Robert Kozak |
UBC Vancouver |
Sustainable business management practices; Issues and providing solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products and the emerging conservation economy. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; FACT | Forests and Communities in Transition Lab |
Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Forestry, Poverty, Policy and Governance, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies, Climate Justice |
| Charles J. Krebs |
UBC Vancouver |
Ecology of smaller mammals, including deer mice, voles, and other related species; Population fluctuations of voles and lemmings. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic |
| Claire Kremen |
UBC Vancouver |
How to reconcile biodiversity conservation with agricultural production using field, lab, and modeling studies on a variety of taxonomic groups; How do different forms of agricultural land management influence long-term persistence of wildlife populations by promoting or curtailing dispersal movements and population connectivity? |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Biodiversity Research Centre; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Natural Resource Management |
| Maja Krzic |
UBC Vancouver |
Linking soil science research with teaching along with community involvement to create educational environment where students can actively engage in ‘real-world’ problems; Combining soil science concepts and the impact of humans on soil properties and processes in crop, grassland, and forest ecosystems; Exploring the role of soil in addressing some of the existential global sustainability challenges we are facing. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Applied Biology Program; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Terrestrial Ecosystems, Forestry, Agriculture, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| McKenzie Kuhn |
UBC Vancouver |
Consequences of climate change on boreal-Arctic ecosystems; Exchange of carbon and greenhouse gases between freshwaters, plants, soils, and the atmosphere; Influence of disturbances and management on freshwater carbon and nutrient cycling; Interactions of between northern freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and global change. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Carbon Cycle, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Freshwater Systems |
| Kristiina Kumpulainen |
UBC Vancouver |
Critical literacies and pedagogies; Digital literacies and multimodality; Children's agency and identity negotiation; Makerspaces and maker education; Multiliteracy practices in formal and informal contexts; Children's ecological literacies and climate change education; Augmented reality and digital storytelling for environmental learning; Playful and participatory pedagogies; Sociocultural and cultural-historical perspectives on learning and communication; Children's sense of agency in diverse learning environments; STEAM education for young learners; Participatory and visual research methods; Teacher professional learning and educational transformation; |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Language & Literacy Education |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Health and Wellbeing, Policy and Governance, Environmental Psychology |
| Nadja Kunz |
UBC Vancouver |
Works at the interface of research and practice to resolve private sector water challenges, with a focus on the mining and resources sector. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining; Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering; Future Minerals Initiative |
Mining, Water Resources and Supply, Climate Justice, Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance, Waste and Waste Management |
| Marysa Laguë |
UBC Vancouver |
How terrestrial processes impact the atmosphere and surface climate from the scale of a single plant to the scale of a planet, by modulating fluxes of water and energy between the land and the atmosphere. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography |
Atmospheric Science, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Carbon Cycle, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Frank Lam |
UBC Vancouver |
Wood products; Solid sawn timber; Wood-based composites; Engineered wood systems; Timber engineering; Wood-based composites mechanics. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics Laboratory |
Sustainable Materials and Composites, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design |
| Anthony Lau |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental engineering; Waste-to-resource recycling; Composting; Odor control; Biohydrogen energy. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Master in Engineering Leadership; Biomass and Bioenergy Research Group at UBC; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Biofuels and Biomass, Waste and Waste Management, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy |
| Nathanael Lauster |
UBC Vancouver |
Housing justice and health; Housing; Immigration; Population; Environment; Built Environment; Urban Sociology; Life Course; Community & Demography. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology; Balanced Supply of Housing Research Cluster |
Housing, Urban Planning and Cities, Policy and Governance, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Health and Wellbeing |
| Bernard Laval |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental fluid mechanics; Water management; Rehabilitation of lakes; Mine tailings; Dispersion of nutrients and pollutants in lakes and coastal waters; Movement of toxic materials in aquatic environments. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering |
Freshwater Systems, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Mining |
| Suzie Lavallee |
UBC Vancouver |
How ecological pressures can shift the investment of resources in insects; Experiential learning; Impact of conservation and forest resources management on the livelihoods of people and the vast biodiversity of India. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Forestry, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies |
| Leslie Lavkulich |
UBC Vancouver |
Soil resources; Soil and environmental chemistry; Mine reclamation and maintenance of environmental services; Perspectives on resources and environment; Sustainable agricultural systems; Land use hydrology; Mining and the environment; Land-water interactions and uncertainty in natural science and policy development. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Department of Global Resource Systems; Mother Tree Project |
Agriculture, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Land Use, Water Resources and Supply, Policy and Governance, Carbon Cycle |
| Gregory Lawrence |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental fluid mechanics; Hydraulics; Hydrodynamic stability and mixing; Physical limnology; Water quality management. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering |
Pollution, Freshwater Systems, Water Resources and Supply, Waste and Waste Management |
| Ali Lazrak |
UBC Vancouver |
Political economy of corporate finance; Green finance and ESG asset pricing; Sustainable asset stranding and institutional divestiture; Climate finance; Group decision-making in corporate investment; Responsible consumption and demand elasticity; Voting theory and political channels; Behavioral finance; Time-inconsistent preferences; Dynamic equilibrium analysis in sustainability transitions. |
Sauder School of Business |
Finance Division |
Climate Finance and Investment, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance |
| Philippe Le Billon |
UBC Vancouver |
Political geography; Political ecology; War studies; Links between natural resources and armed conflicts; Political economy of war and reconstruction; Resource curse; Corruption; Natural disasters; Governance of extractive sectors; Food security. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Climate Finance and Investment, Poverty, Climate Justice, Oil and Gas |
| Shannon Leddy |
UBC Vancouver |
Decolonizing education; Indigenous education and pedagogy; Indigenous visual expression and art as pedagogy; Place-based and land-as-teacher learning; Environmental education; Reconciliation in education; Teacher education and pre-service teacher preparation; Two-eyed seeing approach; Sustainability and holistic practices; Cultural studies; Museum and non-formal learning; Indigenous curriculum development; Slow pedagogies; Transformative learning; Philosophy of education. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Environmental Psychology |
| Eric W. Lees |
UBC Vancouver |
Electrochemical engineering; Electrochemical synthesis; CO₂ capture and conversion; CO₂ reduction electrolysis; Bicarbonate electrolysis; Continuum modelling of electrochemical systems; Multi-scale physics-based modelling; Reactor design; Transport phenomena; Electrochemical separations; Rare-earth metal extraction; Environmental pollutant remediation; Gas diffusion electrodes; Ion-exchange membranes; Electrode materials development; Bipolar membranes; Porous electrodes; Techno-economic assessments; Life cycle assessments; Clean energy technologies; Climate-related technologies; Atmospheric water harvesting; Heat and mass transfer phenomena; Adsorption processes; Water insecurity solutions. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre |
Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Carbon Management, Electricity, Water Resources and Supply, Manufacturing and Heavy Industry |
| Valerie LeMay |
UBC Vancouver |
Biometrics; Forest measurements; Modelling; Sampling design; Stand Dynamics; Stand regeneration estimation; Genetic impacts on growth at the stand level. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Forest Measurements and Biometrics |
Forestry, Carbon Management |
| Barbara Lence |
UBC Vancouver |
Optimizing design and operational strategies of water resources projects; Reliable withdrawal-treatment strategies for contaminated groundwater supply systems; Water distribution system operational procedures to meet hydraulic and water quality objectives. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Master in Engineering Leadership |
Pollution, Policy and Governance, Water Resources and Supply, Freshwater Systems, Climate Risk Management, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design |
| Avi Lewis |
UBC Vancouver |
Social and political change; Communication, education and documentary filmmaking; Climate justice. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Climate Justice, Policy and Governance, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Eric Li |
UBC Okanagan |
Consumer culture; Social innovation and social enterprise; Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Social media marketing and consumption; Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour; Corporate philanthropy; Fashion marketing and consumption. |
Faculty of Management |
Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP); Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies; Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER); Battery Innovation Research Excellence Cluster |
Environmental Psychology, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Poverty, Health and Wellbeing, Rural and Northern Communities |
| Kai Li |
UBC Vancouver |
Corporate governance mechanisms; Economic consequences of corporate governance; Gender and finance; Corporate culture; Green innovation; CEO compensation; Mergers and acquisitions; Shareholder activism; Gender in corporate decision-making; Board of directors; National culture and innovation; Machine learning in finance; Creditor governance; Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in corporate finance. |
Sauder School of Business |
Finance Division |
Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Climate Finance and Investment, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Policy and Governance, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Loretta Li |
UBC Vancouver |
Contaminated site investigation and management; Environmental monitoring; Risk and impact assessment; Soil-contaminant interactions; Mobility and migration of contaminants; Remediation technology; Mine tailings waste disposal and treatment processes. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Microplastic Cluster; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation, and ResiLience (HEAL) |
Pollution, Water Resources and Supply, Waste and Waste Management, Biofuels and Biomass, Mining, Policy and Governance |
| Sunny Li |
UBC Okanagan |
Enhanced heat transfer; Multiphase flows; Aerosol (Airborne) transmission; Electronics cooling; Thermal-fluidics in sustainable energy systems; Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Mechanical); UBC Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Natural Gas Fuel System Laboratory (NGFSL); Airborne Disease Transmission Research Cluster; Thermal Management and Multi-phase Flows Lab (TMMFL) |
Sustainable Materials and Composites, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions |
| Carol Liao |
UBC Vancouver |
Social enterprise law; Business ethics; Corporate law and sustainability; Climate governance; Social justice; Climate risk disclosures; Fiduciary obligations. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Law and the Environment; Centre for Business Law; Centre for Asian Legal Studies; Centre for Feminist Legal Studies; Allard School of Law History Project; Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS); Future Minerals Initiative |
Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Environmental Law, Mining, Climate Justice, International Negotiations and Treaties |
| Jim Lim |
UBC Vancouver |
Spouting and fluidization phenomena; Biomass gasification with CO2 capture in a circulating fluidized bed; Hydrogen production in a fluidized bed membrane reactor from steam reforming of higher hydrocarbons; Performance of limestone for CO2 capture from a high-temperature/ pressure reactor over many calcinations/carbonation cycles; Chemical looping combustion for CO2 separation; Development of thin Pd-based composite membrane suitable for hydrogen separation at high temperature/pressure. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Biomass and Bioenergy Research Group at UBC; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Fluidization Research Centre |
Biofuels and Biomass, Hydrogen, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Carbon Management, Waste and Waste Management |
| Theodore Lim |
UBC Vancouver |
How data and models are used in environmental policy and planning contexts; How to engage with community around urban climate adaptation to achieve just outcomes; Environmental and climate justice; Participatory action research; Participatory planning; Public engagement; Sustainability planning; Urban analytics; Quantitative socio-environmental systems simulation |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Community and Regional Planning |
Climate Justice, Urban Planning and Cities, Weather and Climate Extremes, Water Resources and Supply, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Liwen Lin |
UBC Vancouver |
Comparative corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; State capitalism; Chinese law; Law and economic sociology. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Asian Legal Studies; Centre for Business Law |
Environmental Law, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Policy and Governance |
| Charles (Robin) Lindsey |
UBC Vancouver |
Traffic congestion; Road pricing; Financing transportation infrastructure; Public transit; Advanced traveler information systems. |
Sauder School of Business |
Operations and Logistics Division; Commerce and Business Administration |
Transportation, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Climate Finance and Investment, Environmental Psychology, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Jane Lister |
UBC Vancouver |
Corporate social responsibility; Environmental governance; Sustainable supply chain management; Maritime policy and trade. |
Faculty of Science, Sauder School of Business |
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Operations and Logistics Division; Global Reporting Centre Commerce and Business Administration; Centre for Transportation Studies; Green Shipping Project |
Business Processes and Corporate Governance, International Negotiations and Treaties, Carbon Management, Policy and Governance, Environmental Psychology, Transportation |
| Jian Liu |
UBC Okanagan |
Advanced nanofabrication; Nanomaterials and nanotechnology; Energy storage systems; Next-generation batteries. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Mechanical); Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; Battery Innovation Research Excellence Cluster; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Electricity, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Tianjia Liu |
UBC Vancouver |
Wildfire dynamics and human-fire relationships; Climate extremes and natural disasters; Fire impacts on air quality and public health; Remote sensing and satellite data analysis; Atmospheric modeling and climate science; Fire suppression and fire spread dynamics; Agricultural and monsoon fires; Geospatial analysis and GIS; Human-environment interactions; Climate adaptation and fire management strategies |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Environmental Modeling, Observations, and Remote Sensing (EMBRS) Lab |
Wildfires and Forest Fires, Atmospheric Science, Weather and Climate Extremes, Health and Wellbeing, Pollution |
| Wenying Liu |
UBC Vancouver |
Use of sea water in heap leaching; Release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials; Heap leach modelling. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Materials Engineering; Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining |
Mining, Waste and Waste Management, Water Resources and Supply |
| Kees Lokman |
UBC Vancouver |
Sea level rise adaptation; Energy transition; Design challenges related to water and food shortages; Depleting energy resources; Climate change; Ongoing urbanization. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; UBC Coastal Adaptation Lab; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance |
| Tina Loo |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental history of Canada; Postwar Canada; Canadian wildlife; Rivers; State power; Dams; Caribou. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of History |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Gordon Lovegrove |
UBC Okanagan |
SMARTer Growth; Sustainable community planning & design; Sustainable transport & safety; Hydrail powered, zero-emission regional passenger & freight rail; Affordable housing & Cohousing. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil); Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP); SMARTer Growth Partnership; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Health and Wellbeing, Housing, Transportation, Urban Planning and Cities, Hydrogen |
| Maggie Low |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous-state relations; Indigenous community planning; Indigenous-led reconciliation efforts; Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction; Environmentalism and climate change; Public sector innovation labs. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Community and Regional Planning; Centre for Climate Justice; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; UBC Indigenous Community Planning Program; Balanced Supply of Housing Research Clutster; Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Justice, Housing |
| Juliet Lu |
UBC Vancouver |
Conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use; Transnational land investments; Chinese rubber plantations in Laos; Promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems; Rise of private sector sustainable governance initiatives worldwide. |
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS) |
Policy and Governance, Land Use, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Forestry, International Negotiations and Treaties |