| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Raker |
UBC Vancouver |
Consequences of these climate-related extremes, e.g., tropical cyclones and heat waves, for racial and socioeconomic disparities in human health and well-being and for community well-being; Role of social contexts and political institutions in creating the conditions for disaster and in responding or changing in ways that exacerbate inequality. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology; Centre for Climate Justice; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Health and Wellbeing, Weather and Climate Extremes, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Justice |
| M.V. Ramana |
UBC Vancouver |
Energy production; Nuclear disarmament; Arms control; Nuclear policy; Risk of nuclear accidents; International security and energy supply, with a particular focus on topics related to nuclear energy and fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons. |
Faculty of Arts |
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Liu Institute for Global Issues |
Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance, Climate Justice |
| Navin Ramankutty |
UBC Vancouver |
Environment and society; Agriculture; Climate changes and impacts; Global food security; Sustainable agriculture; Land use change. |
Faculty of Science |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Land Use and Global Environment (LUGE) Research Group; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Agriculture, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Policy and Governance, Land Use, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Mia Raynard |
UBC Vancouver |
Organization theory; Disruptive change in industries; Professions and organizations; Emerging economies; Climate change and sustainability; Family business. |
Sauder School of Business |
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division |
Environmental Psychology, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |
| Andrea Reid |
UBC Vancouver |
Culturally significant fish and fisheries; Leading threats to aquatic ecosystems and their interactive effects for fish, people and place; Consequences of fisheries-related stressors for fish and methods to ameliorate survival; Two-Eyed Seeing approaches to assessing aquatic ecosystem and fish health and evaluating associated changes through time and space; Indigenous understandings and methodologies for effectively stewarding fish and waterways. |
Faculty of Science |
Biodiversity Research Centre; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Centre for Indigenous Fisheries |
Fisheries, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies, Freshwater Systems |
| Scott Renneckar |
UBC Vancouver |
Advanced renewable materials; Biopolymer structure characterization; Clean fractionation of biomass; Electrospinning fibers; Nanocellulose; Self-assembly of biopolymers. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; Bioproducts Institute; Advanced Renewable Materials Lab |
Forestry, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Graham Reynolds |
UBC Vancouver |
Intellectual property law; Copyright law; Property law; Intellectual property and human rights; Intellectual property and climate change; Intellectual property and social justice; Technology and access to justice. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Business Law; Centre for Law and the Environment |
Environmental Law, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Housing |
| Jeanine Rhemtulla |
UBC Vancouver |
Ecology and quality of the environment; Ecological trends; Landscape and restoration; Environment management and protection; Biodiversity and biocomplexity; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Ecosystem services; Reforestation; Socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems; Historical ecology, especially reconstructing and assessing land-use legacies; Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services; Trade-offs between conservation & poverty alleviation. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Landscapes & Livelihoods Lab |
Land Use, Biodiversity, Carbon Cycle, Agriculture, Poverty, Forestry |
| Kimberly Richards |
UBC Vancouver |
Performance as a vehicle for resisting extractivism and inspiring a just energy transition; Culture and climate; Environment; Cultural studies. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Journalism, Writing, and Media; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Activism and Social Movements, Climate Justice, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| John Richardson |
UBC Vancouver |
Ecological processes that limit populations and contribute to the assembly of communities, and how land use impacts those processes; Ecology; Freshwater biology; Food webs; Streams. |
Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Biodiversity Research Centre; Stream and Riparian Research Laboratory |
Biodiversity, Freshwater Systems, Land Use, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Forestry, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Loren Rieseberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Plant evolutionary biology; Adaptation; Speciation; Crops; Weeds; Invasive plants; How gene flow influences adaptation and speciation. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Botany; Biodiversity Research Centre; Rieseberg Lab - Plant Evolutionary Genomics; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Biodiversity, Agriculture, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Andrew Riseman |
UBC Vancouver |
Plant breeding; Plant genetics; Horticulture; Roots; Stress physiology; Plant breeding; Intercrop interactions; Nutrient use efficiency; Root physiology; Biotic/abiotic stressor. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Faculty of Science |
Department of Botany; Applied Biology Program; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Carbon Cycle, Urban Planning and Cities, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems |
| Kermit Ritland |
UBC Vancouver |
Population genetics; Ecology; Genomics; Genome sequencing; Plant mating systems; Phylogeny; Adaptation and speciation; Genetic mapping. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Forestry, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity |
| Leslie Robertson |
UBC Vancouver |
Circulation of forms of social knowledge (public histories, academic theories and representations, colonial legends, medical discourses), in sensitive political and cultural contexts (settler colonialism, medical crises, resource extraction, tourism development). |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Anthropology |
Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Oil and Gas, Climate Justice |
| Inge Roecker |
UBC Vancouver |
Sustainable forms of urban habitation; Inclusion in architecture of the everyday; Inclusive housing models; Community equity; Climate justice. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Housing and Wellbeing Group |
Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Climate Justice, Housing |
| Daniel Roehr |
UBC Vancouver |
Creating “open access” climate resilience tools for landscape architects; Stormwater management application to size the scale of Low Impact Development (LID) in the concept design phase of an urban design project. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Future Waters Group; GreenSkinsLab |
Urban Planning and Cities, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Land Use, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Dominik Roeser |
UBC Vancouver |
Sustainable use of forest biomass in the bioeconomy; Harvesting in difficult terrain; Application of innovative tools in forest planning and management; Productivity of forest operations; Carbon management along the forest supply chain; Impacts of reforestation on community sustainability. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; Bioproducts Institute; Forest Action Lab; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Forestry, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Biofuels and Biomass, Carbon Management |
| Steve Rogak |
UBC Vancouver |
Aerosols; Atmospheric contaminants; Impact on human health; Concentrations of aerosols in the indoor and outdoor environments; Filtration systems that do not require excessive energy consumption; New fuel injectors and injection strategies to minimize particle formation in compression ignition engines. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Aerosol Laboratory; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Carbon Management |
| Lindsay Rogers |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental science and environmental health where biochemical understanding can elucidate complex and often controversial global issues; Novel targets of ADAM17 and MMP12 (A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase and Matrix Metalloproteinase) using proteomics methods. |
Faculty of Medicine |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Emerging Media Lab; The Overall Lab |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Health and Wellbeing |
| Orlando Rojas |
UBC Vancouver |
Supporting global sustainable development through research on the fundamental and utilization aspects of renewable resources, including lignocellulose, proteins and other biopolymers; Competitive alternatives for fossil materials. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Department of Chemistry |
Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| David Rosen |
UBC Vancouver |
Bioenergetics (energy requirements and expenditures) of marine mammals; Root causes of population changes; Interactions between the physiology of individual animals and biotic and abiotic environmental changes; Conservation and management of marine resources, particularly those in Arctic region; Scientific approach to measuring and ensuring the welfare of these animals. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Marine Mammal Research Unit; Marine Mammal Energetics and Nutrition Lab |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Natural Resource Management |
| Emily Rubidge |
UBC Vancouver |
Marine protected area network design and decision support; Understanding and predicting spatial patterns in species diversity and community structure; Seascape metrics as surrogates for nearshore fish diversity; Biodiversity monitoring tools and strategies. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Policy and Governance, Biodiversity, Climate Risk Management |
| Claudia Ruitenberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Citizenship and democracy; Gender studies; Philosophy of education; Queer studies; Social justice; Sustainability. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Educational Studies; UBC Language Sciences |
Policy and Governance, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Michael Russello |
UBC Okanagan |
Population genomics; Conservation genetics; Molecular ecology; Life-history evolution. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; The Ecological and Conservation Genomics Laboratory; Okanagan Institute For Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES); Biodiversity Research Centre |
Biodiversity, Freshwater Systems, Fisheries |
| Adam Rysanek |
UBC Vancouver |
Green building design; Construction and operation, including the integrated technical and economic modelling of building- and community-integrated low-carbon energy systems; Finding new ways to visualize, analyze and communicate building data and information. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; Master in Engineering Leadership; Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation, and ResiLience (HEAL) |
Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Urban Planning and Cities, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Health and Wellbeing |
| Jack (John) Saddler |
UBC Vancouver |
Microbiology of wastewater treatment; Application of fungi to upgrading and modification of forest products, pulp and paper and waste streams. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; Forest Products Biotech & Bioenergy; Bioproducts Institute; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Biofuels and Biomass, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, Transportation, Sustainable Materials and Composites, Waste and Waste Management |
| Rehan Sadiq |
UBC Okanagan |
Water supply systems; Infrastructure management; Environmental risk analysis; Lifecycle thinking; Water-energy nexus of built environment. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil); Life Cycle Management Laboratory; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Battery Innovation Research Excellence Cluster |
Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Risk Management, Water Resources and Supply, Hydrogen |
| Risa Sargent |
UBC Vancouver |
How ecological context impacts plant-pollinator dynamics; Impacts of disruptions; Species invasions and land use changes (especially agriculture and urban use). |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Applied Biology Program; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Plant-Pollinator and Global Change Lab (PPGC); Biodiversity Research Centre; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Land Use, Agriculture, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity |
| Janis Sarra |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate-related financial risk and corporate governance; Climate governance; Banking and finance law; Business, corporate and commercial law; Contract law; Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Law and the Environment; Centre for Feminist Legal Studies; Centre for Business Law |
Environmental Law, Climate Finance and Investment, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |