Find a Researcher

With over 500 faculty members investigating climate-related topics 
across two UBC campuses, it can be hard to know where to start. 

This page provides a searchable list of UBC faculty members conducting climate and climate-related research across the university. 

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Name Campus Research Interests Faculty Department, School, Affiliations Research Theme(s)
Tim Frandy UBC Vancouver Indigenous sustainabilities; Eco-relationality; Indigenization of ecological management, education, and health care systems. Faculty of Arts Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies; Centre for Climate Justice Climate Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies
Ian Frigaard UBC Vancouver Cementing of wells; Preventing leakage and techniques for the eventual abandonment; Issues related to GHG emission control and long-term environmental protection. Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Science Department of Zoology; Department of Mechanical Engineering Carbon Management, Manufacturing and Heavy Industry, Oil and Gas
Andrea Frommel UBC Vancouver Climate change, fisheries and sustainable aquaculture, with a focus on early life stages of finfish; Effects of climate change on commercial fish species in fisheries and aquaculture; Alternative sustainable feeds in hatcheries; Fish welfare in aquaculture. Faculty of Land and Food Systems Applied Biology Program; Aquaculture and Climate Change Lab; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Fisheries, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems
Joséphine Gantois UBC Vancouver Ecological footprint of humans in natural and agricultural landscapes; Reconciling private land use incentives and conservation goals, especially in agricultural areas; Monitoring biodiversity outcomes and ecosystem functions at large scales; Estimating the causal impact of land use choices and conservation policies on biodiversity. Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Faculty of Science Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; Food and Resource Economics; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Food and Resource Economics Biodiversity, Land Use, Agriculture, Policy and Governance
Suliman Gargoum UBC Okanagan Infrastructure Digitization; Virtual Transportation Infrastructure Management; Automated LiDAR Data Processing; Road Safety Analytics; Roadway Design; Smart Cities; Resilient Transportation Infrastructure. Faculty of Applied Science School of Engineering (Civil); Disaster Resilience Research Network; Institute of Transportation Engineers; Consulting Engineers of Alberta; Intelligent Transportation Systems Canada. Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Urban Planning and Cities, Transportation
Greg Garrard UBC Okanagan Climate scepticism; Climate fictions; Climate change cinema; Anthropocene culture; Ecocriticism; Climate models as cultural and ethical actors. Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Department of English and Cultural Studies; 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, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Climate Activism and Social Movements
Christopher Gaston UBC Vancouver Aboriginal/community development; Aboriginal forestry; Communities and livelihoods; Economics; Forest policy; Sustainability; Indigenous capacity building; Indigenous Participatory Cultural Mapping and Dynamic Decision Modelling (MITACS). Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Wood Science; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Forestry, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Sustainable Materials and Composites, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation
Kaitlyn Gaynor UBC Vancouver Behavioural responses of animals to human presence; Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator-prey and other species interactions; Socio-ecological dynamics of conservation and coexistence. Faculty of Science Department of Zoology; Department of Botany; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Biodiversity Research Centre; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Gaynor Lab Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Land Use
Camille Georgeson-Usher UBC Vancouver Contemporary art; Indigenous visual culture; Curatorial practices; Museum studies; Feminism and performance; Public art and graffiti. Faculty of Arts Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Urban Planning and Cities
Sarah Gergel UBC Vancouver Mapping and quantifying ecosystem services; Social-ecological landscapes and resilience; Mapping & monitoring with First Nations and LEK. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Landscape Ecology Lab; Biodiversity Research Centre Freshwater Systems, Forestry, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Health and Wellbeing
Susan Gerofsky UBC Vancouver Art education research; Curriculum studies; Environmental Education; Mathematics; Media; Semiotics; Text Studies; Pedagogy; Mathematics and gesture; Embodied learning; Genre theory; Mathematics and the arts; Garden-based learning; Performance theory; Mathematics and language; History of mathematics. Faculty of Education Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy; David Robitaille International STEM Education Network Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Rural and Northern Communities
Amanda Giang UBC Vancouver Atmospheric pollutants; Climate changes and impacts; Chemical pollutants; Social and cultural factors of environmental protection; Public policies; Air quality; Environmental policy. Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Science Department of Mechanical Engineering; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation, and ResiLience (HEAL); Green Shipping Project Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Pollution, Policy and Governance, Atmospheric Science, Climate Justice
Cynthia Girling UBC Vancouver Sustainable urban design; The public realm; Tools for urban design; Methods and tools of measured visualizations for public engagement in community planning and design. Faculty of Applied Science School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; elementslab Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Urban Planning and Cities, Forestry, Policy and Governance, Climate Justice, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions
Anita Girvan UBC Okanagan Cultural studies; Environmental humanities; Political ecology; Environmental justice; Black and Indigenous feminist ecological thought; Critical Canadian studies; Environmental humanities; Stories and cultural productions as sites of contestation and reclamation in addressing pressing socio-ecological matters, like (de)colonization and climate change; Cultural politics of climate change; Metaphors and stories as mediators of larger-than-human relations; Local-global traffics of decolonization. Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Department of English and Cultural Studies Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Carbon Management
Derek Gladwin UBC Vancouver Energy transition and literacy; Systems literacy; Complexity education; Eco-literacy; Transdisciplinary education; Social and spatial justice; Arts-based environmental education. Faculty of Education Department of Language and Literacy Education; Systems Being Lab; Master of Education Technology; Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program; D|N Education Design; Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Climate Justice, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Climate Activism and Social Movements
Eagle Glassheim UBC Vancouver History of east/central Europe; Habsburg central Europe; Modern Germany; Environmental history; Post-war Czechoslovakia; Czechoslovak environmental policy. Faculty of Arts Department of History Mining, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Policy and Governance, Climate Justice
Robert Godin UBC Okanagan Transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics of materials for solar energy conversion; Photochemistry and photophysics; Carbon-based photocatalytic materials; Sustainable energy and material production. Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) Solar Energy, Water Resources and Supply, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Hydrogen
Ernest Goh UBC Okanagan Sustainable transportation; Enclosed narrow-track electric vehicles, with focus on: Aerodynamics, ergonomics and practicality for commercialization; Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Applied Science School of Engineering (Civil; Mechanical) Transportation, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Electricity
Gaston Gordillo UBC Vancouver Terrain, place, territory and materiality; Racialized geographies; Insurrections and revolution; Violence; Ruins and ruination; Agro-ecological and climate activism; Agribusiness, deforestation, infrastructures and soy supply chains in South America; Argentina; Campesinos and Indigenous people of the Gran Chaco. Faculty of Arts Department of Anthropology; Centre for Climate Justice Climate Activism and Social Movements, Climate Justice, Agriculture, Policy and Governance, Indigenous Ways of Knowing
John Graham UBC Okanagan Social implications to those who are unhoused, precariously employed, poor, vulnerable. Faculty of Health and Social Development School of Social Work; Kelowna Homelessness Research Center Health and Wellbeing, Housing, Poverty, Urban Planning and Cities, Wildfires and Forest Fires, Weather and Climate Extremes
Sean Graham UBC Vancouver Plant biodiversity with a focus on both evolutionary and molecular approaches; Comparative genomics of green & mycoheterotrophic plants; Plant deep phylogeny; Evolutionary biodiversity. Faculty of Science Department of Botany; Biodiversity Research Centre Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems
Kari Grain UBC Vancouver Experiential learning; Critical pedagogy, Adult education; Anti-racism; Global/local community engagement. Faculty of Education Department of Educational Studies Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change
Sue Grayston UBC Vancouver Microbial diversity and function in soils; Plant-microbe interactions; Rhizodeposition; Climate change and soil C sequestration; Soil microbial community structure and function related to GHG emissions. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences Carbon Cycle, Forestry, Terrestrial Ecosystems
Sheldon Green UBC Vancouver Industrial fluid mechanics; Liquid friction modifier application to surfaces; Electrospraying onto a moving surface; Paper creping; Paper pressing; Energy recovery ventilators. Faculty of Applied Science Department of Mechanical Engineering; Applied Fluid Mechanics Laboratory; Bioproducts Institute; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) Sustainable Materials and Composites, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design
Jennifer Grenz UBC Vancouver Invasive species management; Ecological restoration; Science communication; Indigenous ecology; Climate change and invasive species. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, Faculty of Land and Food Systems Department of Forest Resource Management; Indigenous Ecology Lab; Applied Biology Program; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Biodiversity, Forestry, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Policy and Governance
Lee Groat UBC Vancouver Environmental mineralogy; Acid mine drainage potential; Natural acid rock drainage; Mine wastes and neutralization potential. Faculty of Science Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Mining, Waste and Waste Management, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology
Stefan Grzybowski UBC Vancouver Rural maternity care systems and planning; Safety and outcomes of rural perinatal services; Health services delivery in rural communities; Rural health systems research; Climate change adaptation and community resilience; Ecosystem disruption health impacts; Rural health services catchment mapping; Rural physician workforce capacity building; Family medicine research methodology Faculty of Medicine Centre for Rural Health Research; Rural Health Services Research Network of BC Rural and Northern Communities, Health and Wellbeing, Climate Justice, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Policy and Governance
Sumeet Gulati The economics of urban transportation; Effectiveness of carbon taxes; Effectiveness of environmental policy; Economics of human wildlife conflict; Political economy of environmental and trade policy; International trade and its effect on the environment. Faculty of Land and Food Systems Food and Resource Economics Program; Wildlife and Conservation Economics Laboratory; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS)
Penny Gurstein UBC Vancouver Socio-cultural aspects of community planning with particular emphasis on those who are the most marginalized in planning processes; Developing strategies and interventions that encourage diversity, equity and urban sustainability in the planning and design of communities; Affordable homeownership and rental housing. Faculty of Applied Science School of Community and Regional Planning; Balanced Supply of Housing Research Cluster Housing, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Justice, Policy and Governance, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Poverty
Robert Guy UBC Vancouver Climate change; Ecology; Forest biology; Genomics; Ecophysiology and stress physiology of trees and other plants; Use of stable isotopes in plant physiology and ecology; Phenotypic plasticity and resource allocation; Photosynthesis; Respiration (particularly alternative path respiration); Water relations; Phenology; Forest regeneration and stock quality. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences Forestry, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity
Előd Gyenge UBC Vancouver Alternative energy sources (fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors); Pollution control of gaseous (e.g. CO2, NOx) and liquid effluents and environmentally more sustainable chemical process development (e.g. the electrosynthesis alternative to conventional thermochemical processes). Faculty of Applied Science Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) Electricity, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions
Shannon Hagerman UBC Vancouver Environmental values; Politics of knowledge; Social-ecological systems; Human-dimensions of conservation; Environmental decision-making and policy; Climate change adaptation. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Forest Resource Management; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; The CoAdapTree Project; Social-Ecological Systems Research Group Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Policy and Governance, Environmental Psychology, Forestry
Ilona Hale UBC Vancouver Rural health promotion; Chronic disease prevention in early childhood (0-2 years); Obesity prevention during infancy; Environmental sustainability in healthcare; Climate change impacts on health; Planetary health in primary care; Reducing healthcare carbon footprint. Faculty of Medicine Department of Family Practice; Centre for Rural Health Research Health and Wellbeing, Rural and Northern Communities, Pollution, Waste and Waste Management, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy
Kate Hale UBC Vancouver Snowpack; Climate; Ecohydrology; Water availability in alpine and Arctic watersheds; Community engagement; Cold region hydrology. Faculty of Arts Department of Geography Freshwater Systems, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Water Resources and Supply, Climate Risk Management
Steven Hallam UBC Vancouver Microbial ecology; Synthetic biology and bioinformatics with specific emphasis on the creation of functional screens and computational tools that reveal hidden metabolic powers of uncultivated microbial communities. Faculty of Science Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Bioproducts Institute; Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining; Hallam Lab; Life Sciences Institute; Microplastic Cluster; Future Packaging Research Cluster Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, Oceans and Coastal Systems
Richard Hamelin UBC Vancouver Forest pathology; Using genetic and genomic approaches to better understand forest disease epidemics; Biology and genomics of tree rust diseases. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; The Hamelin Lab; The CoAdapTree Project Forestry, Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response
Cara Haney UBC Vancouver Biochemistry; Biotechnology; Bioinformatics; Biological imaging; Genomics; Immunology; Systems biology; Evolution; Infectious disease; Microbiome; Agriculture; Microbial pathogenesis; Plant biology; Food security. Faculty of Science Department of Microbiology and Immunology; The Haney Lab (Plant Microbiome Lab); Biodiversity Research Centre; Life Sciences Institute; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Health and Wellbeing
Kevin Hanna UBC Okanagan Environmental impact assessment; Natural resources management; Energy systems and resources; Canadian west, north and Arctic. Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences; UBC Centre for Environmental Assessment Research Natural Resource Management, Mining, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Policy and Governance, Forestry
David Hardisty UBC Vancouver Consumer behaviour; Sustainability; Energy efficiency; Judgement and decisions about the future; Product attribute framing . Sauder School of Business Marketing and Behavioural Science Division; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS) Environmental Psychology, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis
Christopher Harley UBC Vancouver Community ecology; Climate change; Plant and animal distributions; Biotic forces such as temperature and ocean acidification; Biological relationships such as predation, competition, and facilitation; Coastal marine ecology and structure. Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Biodiversity, Oceans and Coastal Systems
Leila Harris UBC Vancouver Drinking water; Fresh water; Water; Resources management; Development policies; International development; Social and cultural factors of environmental protection; Social contract and social justice; Water politics; Water governance; Environmental justice; Gender and social difference; Equity and social justice; Participatory resource management; Turkey and Middle East, Africa , Ghana, South Africa. Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science Department of Geography; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Environmental & Development: Gender, Equity, and Sustainability (EDGES) Research Collaborative; Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Policy and Governance, Water Resources and Supply, Poverty, Climate Justice, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation
Sara Harris UBC Vancouver Science education; Climate science education; Oceans; Geoscience education; Environmental science. Faculty of Science Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Cool Tools Warm World Research Cluster Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Environmental Psychology
Kathryn Harrison UBC Vancouver Environmental politics; Environmental policy; Climate change; Global warming; Climate change policy; Energy policy; Federalism; Comparative public policy. Faculty of Arts Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Department of Political Science; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Green Shipping Project International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance, Natural Resource Management, Oil and Gas
Mark Harrison UBC Vancouver Health economics; Policy evaluation; Patient-physician decision-making; Treatment preferences; Health technology assessment; Health care access for marginalized populations; Relationship between health and environment; Sustainable health care systems; Patient-reported outcomes; Choice-based experiments; Economic evaluation of health interventions; Health utility measurement; Pharmaceutical services evaluation; Rheumatology and inflammatory arthritis; Epidemiology; Environmental impacts of health care; Climate change and health systems Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS); Providence Health Care Research Institute Health and Wellbeing, Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change
Miranda Hart UBC Okanagan Microbial ecology of soil microbes; Role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration. Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science Department of Biology; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) Agriculture, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems
Marwan Hassan UBC Vancouver Geomorphology; Hydrology; Landscape evolution; Stream ecology; Urban hydrology; Desert floods; Water quality; Water resources. Faculty of Arts Department of Geography; Future Waters Group Freshwater Systems, Water Resources and Supply
Cristoph Hauert UBC Vancouver Evolution of cooperation; Evolutionary dynamics; Structured populations; Social networks; Game theory; Adaptive dynamics. Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics; Department of Zoology Environmental Psychology
Lindsey Heagy UBC Vancouver Mineral exploration; Carbon sequestration; Geophysics; Groundwater and environmental studies; Geophysical inversions. Faculty of Science Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Future Minerals Initiative Freshwater Systems, Mining, Carbon Management, Water Resources and Supply, Oceans and Coastal Systems
Tracey Heatherington UBC Vancouver Sociocultural anthropology; Globalization; Development and political ecology; Social justice; Critical study of biodiversity conservation at a broader scale, in relation to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; Seed banking and seed saving; Agricultural science; Technology and institutions in international efforts to adapt to climate change. Faculty of Arts Department of Anthropology Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems
Nancy Heckman UBC Vancouver Environmental and spatial statistics; Forest products stochastic modeling; Functional data analysis; Applications in evolutionary biology; Analysis of animal movement; Nonparametric regression; Shapes of regression functions. Faculty of Science Department of Statistics Forestry, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis

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