Solutions Scholars Library

The Solutions Scholars program was established in 2023 to encourage interdisciplinary research in the areas of climate change mitigation, adaptation and education and to connect researchers across UBC's campuses.
 
The program supports graduate students to spend part of the academic year working on a solutions-oriented research project and receiving mentorship in interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange.
 
This library includes some of the various deliverables produced by the Solutions Scholars throughout their term. In many cases, Scholars have journal articles in production which will be added to this library once published. 
 
Title Solutions Scholars Authors Co-author(s) Supervisor(s) Publication Year Description
Unravelling Emissions Calculators for Small-Scale, Diversified Farms Sofia Bahmutsky, Caitlin Ciampaglia, Evan Eskilson, Talha Naeem, Anny Wang

Hannah Wittman (IRES/LFS); Sean Smukler (APBI/UBC Farm); Khanh Dao Duc (Math/Computer Science)  

2025

Poster

Enhancing Heatwave Forecasting & Public Uptake in British Columbia Emily Kaakyo Rubooga, Jing Jiang, Vicky Lucas

Dr. Rachel White and Dr. Farrukh Chishtie (UBC); Dominique Brunt, D. Michelson, and Dave Hudak (Environment and Climate Change Canada) 

Rachel White (EOAS) and Farrukh Chishtie

2025

Poster

Assessing Large Language Models as Climate Tools Pritam Dash, Viola Jasmine Provost, Victor Cardenas

Milind Kandlikar (IRES, SPPGA), Sathish Gopalakrishnan (Applied Science), Navin Ramankutty (IRES)

2025

Poster

Carbon Offsets: Climate Action or Sustainability Illusion? Lucy Binfield, Isabella Morgante, Peter McCartney

Hisham Zerriffi (Forestry), Kathryn Harrison (Political Science), Werner Antweiler (Sauder School of Business), Gregory Paradis (Forestry) 

2025

Poster

Four-Year Trends of Personal Mobility Devices in Metropolitan Vancouver: The Evolution of Mode Shares, Speeds, and Comfort in Off-Street Paths Amir Hassanpour

Alexander Bigazzi, Amir Hassanpour

Alexander Bigazzi and Julia Harten 

2024

Project Report

2023/2024 Solutions Scholar Research Project Summaries Sidonie Wittman

Tiago Bonomo; Kylie Clark; Cuiyi Fei; Kaushal Gnyawali; Miah Godek; Amir Hassanpour; Daniel Sax; Steffani Singh; Amit Sinha; Katherine White.

2024

Ten project summaries

Fires and Public Health in the Brazilian Amazon Tiago Bonomo

Patrick Baylis and Claudio Ferraz

2024

Job Market Paper

Planting Trees, Cultivating Connection: Mini forests as connectors to nature, community, social cohesion and local environmental care Kyle (Kylie) Saira Clark

Holly Caggiano and Melissa McHale

2024

Policy Brief

Understanding Projected Heatwave Impacts on Demographic Groups in Different Climate Change Storylines Cuiyi Fei

Rachel White and Ethan Raker

2024

Draft Journal Article

Investigating opportunities for UBC to support cultural burning as a community-led climate solution in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia Miah Godek

Danielle Ignace and Shandin Pete

2024

Project Brief

Learning on the go: Experiences researching urban stewardship practices through collaborative interview Daniel Sax

Lorien Nesbitt and Michael Brauer

2024

Methods Brief

Modelling to support the Operations of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) and their adaptation to Climate Change: Physics-based resilience analysis of WDNs Amit Sinha

Barbara Lence and Stephanie Chang

2024

Project Brief

Raptor Habitat Use in Burned Forests - Management Brief Steffani Singh

Karen E. Hodges and Frank Doyle

2024

Management Report

Discharge hydrograph and flow depths for a post-wildfire sediment-laden flood in a small watershed near Monte Lake Kaushal Gnyawali

Tom Millard, Brendan Miller, Sarah Crookshanks (BC Ministry of Forests)

Dwayne Tannant

2024

Case Study

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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