| Enda Murphy |
UBC Vancouver |
Understanding and modelling coastal systems and coastal hazards (flooding, erosion, and debris) and risk; Nature-based solutions for coastal hazard risk management; Transdisciplinary collaboration. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Weather and Climate Extremes, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Climate Risk Management, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Srinivas Murthy |
UBC Vancouver |
Blood; Sepsis; Vaccines & treatment; Global public health, including outbreaks, emerging infections, and novel respiratory pathogens; Climate justice. |
Faculty of Medicine |
Department of Pediactics; Centre for Climate Justice; Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes; BC Children's Hospital Research Institute |
Climate Justice |
| Isla Myers-Smith |
UBC Vancouver |
Global change drivers and impacts with a focus on tundra ecosystems; How tundra ecosystems beyond the latitudinal and elevational treeline are responding to climate change; How an accelerating warming is leading to a ‘greening’ of the Arctic including an increase in shrubs, shifts in the timing of plant growth and altered tundra biodiversity. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Team Shrub |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Rural and Northern Communities, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation |
| Ryozo Nagamune |
UBC Vancouver |
Robust control; System identification; Optimization; Hard disk drives servo; Automotive engine control; Machine tool servo control; Analytic interpolation; Spectral estimation; Wind turbine control; Automotive engine control; Hard disk drive track-following control. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Marine Systems Research Cluster; Advanced Materials Manufacturing; Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems; Control Engineering Laboratory |
Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Solar Energy, Manufacturing and Heavy Industry |
| Vin Nardizzi |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental humanities; Ecocriticism and ecotheory; Early modern environmental history and ecology; Shakespeare and ecological crisis; Plant studies and botanical natural history; Queer ecologies and environmental justice; Premodern natural history and categorization; Renaissance literature and environmental anxiety; Early modern science studies; Disability studies; Literary analysis of human-environment relationships |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of English Language and Literatures; Peter Wall Institute for Advanced; Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Forestry, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Natural Resource Management, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Lisa Nathan |
UBC Vancouver |
Information & climate justice; Information in times of crisis; Indigenous-led information initiatives; Information policy/ethics; Human-computer interaction; Multi-lifespan information systems. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Information |
Climate Justice, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Astrida Neimanis |
UBC Okanagan |
Feminist studies (with a focus on embodiment, ecofeminisms, material feminisms and intersectionality); Environmental studies (with a focus on cultural studies of water, weather and climate change, and multispecies justice); Everyday militarisms; Interdisciplinarity; Epistemologies and non-traditional research methodologies. |
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Department of English and Cultural Studies; Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies; The FEELED Lab; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Harry Nelson |
UBC Vancouver |
Natural and environmental resource policy; Forestry; Ecosystem Services as an alternative business model for Indigenous groups managing forest lands in BC; Assessing the impacts of climate change on how we manage our forests and exploring adaptation options; Climate change; Conservation; Economics; Ecosystem services; Forest management; Forest policy; Human behaviour, International trade; Sustainability. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management |
Policy and Governance, Forestry, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Natural Resource Management |
| Susan Nesbit |
UBC Vancouver |
Engineering education for sustainable development; Engineering education as a socio-curricular system; Transdisciplinary education; Curricula design and assessment; Beliefs and attitude development in engineering education. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Lorien Nesbitt |
UBC Vancouver |
Urban forestry and socio-ecological interactions in urban environments; Environmental justice; Public health; Social science; Sustainability. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Urban Forests Research Hub; Centre for Climate Justice; Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation, and ResiLience (HEAL) |
Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Justice, Forestry, Health and Wellbeing |
| Dave Ng |
UBC Vancouver |
Societal, cultural, corporate, political, economic, and ethical nuances of the general sciences, and life sciences in particular. |
Faculty of Science |
Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL); Michael Smith Laboratories |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Environmental Psychology |
| Craig Nichol |
UBC Okanagan |
Hydrogeology and vadose zone processes; Regional groundwater resources; Surface water and groundwater interactions; Agricultural irrigation efficiency and nitrate leaching; Agricultural greenhouse gas production; Acid rock drainage and mine reclamation; Soil physics; Geoscience education. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
Freshwater Systems, Agriculture, Carbon Cycle, Mining, Pollution |
| Eva Nichols |
UBC Vancouver |
Leads inorganic research group with interests in the preparation and interrogation of molecular and interfacial electrocatalysts for sustainable energy applications. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Chemistry |
Clean Energy and Energy Transitions |
| William Nikolakis |
UBC Vancouver |
Aboriginal forestry; Forest management; Land-use change; Indigenous land and natural resources governance; Intersection between Aboriginal rights, forestry, forest management, and land-use change. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Bioproducts Institute; Dragon Lab |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Wildfires and Forest Fires, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Water Resources and Supply, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |
| Kurt Niquidet |
UBC Vancouver |
Forest economics and policy; Timber market analysis and competition; Forest products trade; Stumpage pricing mechanisms; Wood fiber allocation and supply chain optimization; Bioenergy production from forest biomass; Economic impacts of forest pests; Transaction cost economics in forestry; Forest tenure systems and institutional reform; Sustainable forest management economics. |
Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Master of Food and Resource Economics Program |
Forestry, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Natural Resource Management, Biofuels and Biomass, Policy and Governance |
| Frederik Noack |
UBC Vancouver |
Interaction of economic development and the environment; How improved market access and property rights affect rural welfare and natural resources such as forests, fish stocks and biodiversity. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Food and Resource Economics Program; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS) |
Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Policy and Governance, Land Use |
| Michael Noonan |
UBC Okanagan |
Animal movement; Conservation; Encounter theory; Evolutionary processes; Macro-ecology; Statistical ecology. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology; Quantitative Ecology Lab; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity |
| Nathan Nunn |
UBC Vancouver |
Historical and dynamic process of economic development; Differences in the evolution of institutions and cultures across societies; Historical process of a wide range of factors that are crucial for economic development, including distrust, gender norms, religiosity, norms of rule-following, conflict, immigration, state formation, and support for democracy. |
Faculty of Arts |
Vancouver School of Economics |
Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Policy and Governance |
| Mary O'Connor |
UBC Vancouver |
Ecological dimensions of global change, with an emphasis on the effects of warming and biodiversity change on complex ecological systems; Effects of changing predator diversity in the ocean; Consequences of invasive species in marine habitats. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); O'Connor Lab - Unifying Ecological Understanding Across Scales |
Biodiversity, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Carbon Cycle |
| Patricia A. O'Riley |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous ecotechnological knowings; Ecojustice and sustainability education; Environmental justice; Ecoliteracy; Technology, culture, and social justice; Intersections of Indigeneity and globalization; Feminist and critical pedagogy; Ecological sustainability; Indigenous technology systems; Equitable and just education systems. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Climate Justice, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Gunilla Öberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Use of knowledge in environmental decision making; Chlorine biogeochemistry in soil; Chemicals of concern; Microplastics. |
Faculty of Science |
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Microplastic Cluster; Future Waters Group; Egesta Lab |
Pollution, Policy and Governance, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Health and Wellbeing, Water Resources and Supply, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Nelly Oelke |
UBC Okanagan |
Integrated health systems and services delivery; primary health care; mental health; rural health; climate change and climate change events and mental health; integrated knowledge translation and implementation science. |
Faculty of Health and Social Development |
School of Nursing |
Health and Wellbeing |
| Alix Ohlin |
UBC Vancouver |
Narratives, visions, and vocabularies of climate justice; Climate writing; Fiction; Nonfiction. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Creative Writing; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Colin Oloman |
UBC Vancouver |
Electrochemical engineering; Electrosynthesis; Electrochemical power generation; Coupling electrosynthesis with electrochemical power generation in carbon neutral “regenerative” fuel cell cycles; Simplified electrochemical reactors for application in new energy systems that reduce dependence on fossil fuels. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Chemical and Biological Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Electricity, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Carbon Management |
| Martin Ordonez |
UBC Vancouver |
Energy systems; Renewable energy; Wind power; Solar power; Battery systems; Fuel cells; Electric vehicles; Smart grid. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Electricity, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Transportation |
| Anais Orsi |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate change; Polar climate; Isotope geochemistry; Data analysis; Inverse modeling; Paleoclimate; Arctic humidity. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Paleoclimate, Atmospheric Science, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Carbon Cycle |
| Sarah (Sally) Otto |
UBC Vancouver |
Understanding how evolution has led to the remarkable diversity of life; Mathematical models to study evolutionary transitions probability; Genomic architectures; Ploidy levels; Mating systems. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Zoology; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Biodiversity Research Centre |
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Gaby Pailer |
UBC Vancouver |
German literature in transcultural contexts from the Renaissance to the 21st century; Women’s drama and theatre in German cultural history; Literary history; Decolonizing German literature; Changing climate; Catastrophe and gender; Cultural sustainment; Women’s call of the wild: Female adventure between old and new worlds. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Richard Kyle Paisley |
UBC Vancouver |
International water law and governance; Transboundary waters and river basin management; Water diplomacy and conflict resolution; Climate change and water resources; Water-energy-agriculture nexus; Environmental mediation; International environmental law; Freshwater resource management; International watercourse agreements; Indigenous water rights and First Nations engagement; Coastal zone management; Fisheries law and management; Energy law and policy; Infrastructure development and public-private partnerships |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs |
Water Resources and Supply, International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance, Climate Risk Management, Freshwater Systems |
| Evgeny Pakhomov |
UBC Vancouver |
Biological oceanography; Species ecology; Ecosystem structure; Variability and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change using stable isotopes, large-scale and retrospective analyses; Land-sea interface. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Strait of Georgia Data Centre |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Fisheries, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Carbon Cycle, Land Use |
| Gregory Paradis |
UBC Vancouver |
Forest management planning; Forest operations; Operations research and mathematical optimization; Wood supply modelling and fibre procurement; Sustainable forest management; Forest carbon management and modelling; Forest invasive alien species management; Bioenergy production from forest biomass; Forest ecosystems; Industrial supply chain integration; Climate-change adaptation in forestry; Data science and decision support systems; Forest economics. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resources Management |
Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Carbon Management, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Laura Parfrey |
UBC Vancouver |
Microbial ecology of eukaryotic microbes (protists) and their interaction with bacteria; Mammalian gut; Coastal ecosystems. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Botany; Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Parfrey Lab |
Biodiversity, Oceans and Coastal Systems |
| Jen Park |
UBC Vancouver |
Judgment and decision-making; Framing & context effects; Digital interfaces & information processing; Prosocial & pro-environmental behavior |
Sauder School of Business |
Marketing and Behavioural Science Division; Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS) |
Environmental Psychology, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |
| Lael Parrott |
UBC Okanagan |
Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time; Incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; Regional-scale landscape modelling; Social-ecological networks; Agent and individual-based modelling approaches; Landscape science and scenario building. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences; Complex Environmental Systems Lab; Watershed Ecosystems Project; Biodiversity Research Centre; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES); Cluster of Research Excellence in Living with Wildfire in the BC Southern Interior |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Land Use |
| Daniel Pauly |
UBC Vancouver |
World fisheries; Marine life; Global catch; Management of fisheries; Ecosystem modeling; Aquatic ecosystems; Ichthyology. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Fisheries, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Policy and Governance, International Negotiations and Treaties, Natural Resource Management |
| Richard Pawlowicz |
UBC Vancouver |
Oceans; Pressure gradiets; Currents; Tides; Fjords; Salinity; Ocean temperature; Surface water flows; Oceanography. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Strait of Georgia Data Centre |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Maziar Peihani |
UBC Vancouver |
Intersection of law and the financial system; Banking regulation; Financial crises; Financial institution restructuring; Sovereign debt markets. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Lawson Lundell LLP |
Environmental Law, International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance |
| Nicolas Peleato |
UBC Okanagan |
Evaluation of drinking water treatment processes; Source water quality assessment; Integrated data analysis and machine learning pertaining to water quality. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil) |
Water Resources and Supply, Waste and Waste Management |
| Nathan Pelletier |
UBC Okanagan |
Sustainability measurement and management; Life cycle thinking; Environmental and social life cycle assessment of food; Feed and biomass supply chains; Resource efficiency; Social license and market access; Trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk. |
Faculty of Management, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology; Food Systems Prism Lab |
Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Biofuels and Biomass, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Agriculture |
| Bernard Perley |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous community-based research and advocacy; Indigenous anthropology; Language death and endangerment; Indigenous language revitalization; Climate justice; Climate response. |
Faculty of Arts |
Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation |
| Kavita Philip |
UBC Vancouver |
Nineteenth-century environmental knowledge in British India; Information technology in post-colonial India; Intersections of art, science fiction, and social activism with science and technology. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of English Language & Literatures; Department of Geography; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Michael Pidwirny |
UBC Okanagan |
Anthropogenic climate change impact assessment and adaptation; Use of climate databases in assessing climate change; Historical climate change at North American ski resorts; Forecasts of future climate change at North American ski resorts. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Atmospheric Science, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Tony Pitcher |
UBC Vancouver |
Evaluation of the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems with special emphasis on restoration ecology; Development of a predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behavior impacts fisheries. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries |
Fisheries, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Freshwater Systems, Biodiversity |
| Jason Pither |
UBC Okanagan |
Biodiversity patterns and processes; Community ecology; Invasive species biology; Landscape connectivity; Biogeography; Principles and practices of Open Science; Indigenous engaged research; Terrestrial plant community ecology and biogeography; Quantifying biodiversity patterns in space and through time; Elucidating the role of specialization in governing biodiversity patterns and landscape connectivity; Improving rigour and reproducibility in ecological research. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Research Facility; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Freshwater Systems, Natural Resource Management |
| Gabriel Potvin |
UBC Vancouver |
Laboratory education; Problem-based learning; Interdisciplinary education; Bioprocessing; Industrial microbiology; Microalgal biotechnology; Sustainable engineering. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Geraldine Pratt |
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Labour precarity; Global migration; New geographies of care; Collaborative research with migrant organisations on temporary foreign worker programs; Critical assessment of new geographies of care for aging persons; Housing (in)justice in the face of weather effects/climate change. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Centre for Climate Justice; Research-Based Theatre Collaborative; Centre for Migration Studies |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Housing, Health and Wellbeing, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Justice |
| Cindy Prescott |
UBC Vancouver |
Rates of litter decomposition: Controlling factors and influences of forestry practices; Influence of site and species on N availability; Linking soil microbial and faunal communities and nutrient cycling processes; Ecosystem restoration and soil reclamation; Effects of clearcutting and other silvicultural systems on N availability; Causes and amelioration of nutrient deficiencies; Long-term effects of forest fertilization. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Forestry, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Carbon Cycle |
| Jonathan Proctor |
UBC Vancouver |
How light, water, and temperature jointly determine crop growth; How high resolution imagery can be used to measure socio-environmental conditions. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Food and Resource Economics Program; Environmental Economics and Data Sciences Lab |
Agriculture, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Land Use |
| Matthew Rader |
UBC Okanagan |
Poetic genres and forms; Poetics of collaboration; Community engaged poetics; Creative nonfiction; Short fiction; Community engaged writing; Literary aesthetics; Literary history; Interdisciplinary art practices; Embodied poetics; Disability aesthetics. |
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies |
Department of Creative Studies |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation |
| Valentina Radic |
UBC Vancouver |
Response of mountain glaciers to climate change on regional and global scales; Uncertainties in projections of glacial contributions to regional streamflow as well as to global sea level rise; Modelling and data analysis methods; Models of surface energy balance and climate downscaling; Assessment of turbulent heat fluxes under katabatics; Applications of machine learning methods. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Future Waters Group |
Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Freshwater Systems, Water Resources and Supply, Oceans and Coastal Systems |