| Donna Senese |
UBC Okanagan |
Rural resilience; Tourism and sustainability; Landscapes of wine and food; International experiential education; Hazards, gender and vulnerability. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies |
Rural and Northern Communities, Agriculture, Land Use, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Peyman Servati |
UBC Vancouver |
Advanced nanomaterials; Low-cost and flexible solar cells and batteries; Novel device engineering for medical and energy applications. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; School of Biomedical Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Centre for Flexible Electronics and Textiles (CFET); Bioproducts Institute; The Flexible Electronics and Energy Lab (FEEL); Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNa) Group |
Solar Energy, Electricity, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Mohammad Shahrad |
UBC Vancouver |
Sustainability in computing; Efficiency of data centres; Cloud computing; Serverless computing. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Cloud Infrastructure Research for Reliability, Usability, and Sustainability (CIRRUS) |
Electricity, Carbon Management, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis |
| Pete Shandin |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous research methodologies; Geoscientific ethnography; Indigenous astronomy; Social-political tribal structures; Culturally congruent instructional strategies; Indigenous science philosophies. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Future Minerals Initiative |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Policy and Governance, Water Resources and Supply |
| Ziad Shawwash |
UBC Vancouver |
Modeling and optimization of large-scale civil engineering systems; Planning, design and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities; Use of decision, policy and risk analysis techniques in water resource planning and management; Use of artificial intelligence systems in water resource and hydroelectric systems. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Water Resources and Supply, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Climate Risk Management, Electricity, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design |
| Stephen Sheppard |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; Visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; Low-carbon future scenarios visualized in the CIRS’ BC Hydro Decision Theatre; Community energy planning, renewables, and energy literacy; Public perceptions, aesthetics and sustainability; Social aspects of forestry. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning; Asia Forest Research Centre; Cool Tools Warm World Research Cluster; Centre for Culture and Technology |
Forestry, Urban Planning and Cities, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Sara Shneiderman |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate migration; Cross-border mobility; Conflict and political mobilization; Territory and land use; Development discourses and practices; Disaster aftermath and preparedness. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Anthropology; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute of Asian Research; Centre for Migration Studies; Disaster Resilience Research Network; Centre for Climate Justice |
Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Policy and Governance, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Anil Shrestha |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate change impacts on wildlife and their habitats; Conservation sciences; Climate policy; Natural based solutions; Restoration under climate change. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship |
Forest Resources Management |
Biodiversity, Carbon Management, Climate Finance and Investment, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Forestry, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies, Natural Resource Management, Policy and Governance, Poverty, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Farah Shroff |
UBC Vancouver |
Participatory action research; Community-led health initiatives; Holistic health and integrative medicine; Ayurveda and yoga-based health promotion; Women's health and maternal-infant health; Social and environmental justice; Feminist and decolonial approaches to public health; Health policy and health services research; Global public health; Planetary health and environmental sustainability; Mental health equity; Mind-body approaches to disease prevention; Public health ethics; Rural and international health development. |
Faculty of Medicine |
Department of Family Practice |
Health and Wellbeing, Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Indigenous Ways of Knowing |
| Sumi Siddiqua |
UBC Okanagan |
Chemical and biological treatment of problematic soils; Underground nuclear waste disposal modeling; Contaminant migration; Sustainable infrastructure. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil); Advanced Geomaterials Testing Lab; Bioproducts Institute |
Waste and Waste Management, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Pollution |
| Suzanne Simard |
UBC Vancouver |
Forest ecology; Global change; Forest stand dynamics (regeneration, growth, mortality); Forest disturbances; Complex adaptive systems and ecological resilience. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Simard Lab; Mother Tree Project |
Forestry, Biodiversity, Land Use, Carbon Cycle, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Onyx Sloan Morgan |
UBC Okanagan |
Socio-legal and colonial geographies; Queering and critical political ecologies; Healthy environments and communities in rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous locales. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies; The FEELED Lab; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Mining, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Rural and Northern Communities |
| Deondre Smiles |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous geographies; Indigenous relationships to land and environment; Culturally and politically grounded responses to environmental change; Critical Indigenous geographies; Human-environment interactions; Political ecology; Indigenous cultural resource preservation and protection; Political ecologies of Indigenous death; Indigenous spatial politics; Settler colonial contestations; More-than-human kinship and environmental protection; Indigenous climate change responses; Decolonized perspectives on spatial planning; Indigenous burial grounds and site protection; Geographic Indigenous futures; Science and technology studies; Research ethics with Indigenous communities. |
Faculty of Science |
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Climate Justice, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Natural Resource Management |
| Kevin Smith |
UBC Vancouver |
Design and development of improved catalysts and catalytic processes; Issues related to Canadian energy; Investigation of hydrogen production by catalytic methane decomposition; Synthesis gas conversion to alcohols and hydrocarbons; Residue and bio-oil hydroconversion (upgrading); Hydrogen storage using heteroaromatic liquids. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Bioproducts Institute; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Hydrogen, Oil and Gas |
| Leslie Smith |
UBC Vancouver |
Mathematical modeling of fluid flow and solute transport in fractured geologic media, with applications to problems of groundwater contamination; Hydrogeological processes within waste rock piles; Hydrogeologic aspects of continental and oceanic hydrothermal systems; Design of groundwater monitoring networks at hazardous waste management sites. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
Freshwater Systems, Waste and Waste Management, Mining |
| Megan L. Smith |
UBC Okanagan |
New media art; Immersive art and storytelling; Virtual reality; Physical computing; Critical design; Geo-location; Interactive art; Visual art; Climate change; Satellites; Orbital environment; Use-of-force VR development; Augmented reality; Haptic feedback; Data visualization through narrative structure; Disability justice and accessibility through technology; Public safety and emergency simulation |
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies |
Department of Cultural Studies; Critical Making Lab |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Weather and Climate Extremes, Wildfires and Forest Fires |
| Sean Smukler |
UBC Vancouver |
Agriculture; Environment; Sustainable development; Ecosystem services; Impact of farm management practices on plant biomass and biodiversity; Soil physical and chemical properties; Nutrients in water; Carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Soil Science Program; Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes Lab; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Agriculture, Carbon Management, Biodiversity, Carbon Cycle, Water Resources and Supply, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems |
| Taraneh Sowlati |
UBC Vancouver |
Biomass supply chain management; Mathematical modeling and optimization; Multi-criteria decision making; Simulation; Life cycle assessment. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship |
Department of Wood Science; Bioproducts Institute; Industrial Engineering Research Group |
Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Waste and Waste Management, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Biofuels and Biomass, Forestry |
| Camilla Speller |
UBC Vancouver |
Molecular environmental archaeology; Marine ecosystems (Long-term fishing and subsistence patterns; Marine biogeography and biodiversity; Documenting shifting baselines; Patterns of resource management; Sustainable development; Traditional resources management); Human-animal interactions (Social and ecological impacts; Hunting strategies; Human impacts on biodiversity; Animal domestication; Conservation biology); Ancient microbiomes. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Anthropology; Indigenous/Science: Partnerships in the Exploration of History & Environments; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies, Biodiversity, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems |
| Jerry Spiegel |
UBC Vancouver |
Global health; International health; Environmental health; Effects of globalization on health; Ecosystem approaches to human health; Understanding and addressing influences of physical and social environments on health; Global health and human security; Economic evaluation of interventions; Health and equity in Latin America. |
Faculty of Medicine |
School of Population and Public Health; Global Health Research Program; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Health and Wellbeing, Policy and Governance |
| Diane Srivastava |
UBC Vancouver |
Biodiversity; Tropics; Costa Rica; Insects; Mites; Food webs; Habitat loss; Community ecology; Conservation; How species loss from food webs can affect the way ecosystems function. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Srivastava Lab |
Biodiversity, Land Use |
| Jocelyn Stacey |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates and prevents these events; Environmental assessment law; Disaster law; Climate change; Emergency powers; Environmental emergencies; How law regulates disaster as disconnected and exceptional events, contrary to the experiences of those most vulnerable to disaster and in spite of our current era of climate disruption; Work with First Nations on legal issues related to disasters, emergency powers and Indigenous jurisdiction. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Law and the Environment; Centre for Climate Justice; Indigenous Legal Studies; Centre for Feminist Legal Studies; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Environmental Law, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Climate Justice |
| Dan Starling |
UBC Vancouver |
How strategies of repetition, sequence, and layering of images and texts can generate new ideas that challenge the myths necessary to maintaining the status quo; How art can create friction to rupture and de-stabilize normative narratives; How art can leap into the past to re-situate present cultural, social, and political configurations; How art’s speculative fictions open the door to an equitable future. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Art History; Visual Art and Theory |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Sheryl Staub-French |
UBC Vancouver |
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC); Building Information Modeling (BIM); Collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination; 4D (3D + time) visualization; Interactive workspaces. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Designing for People Research Network |
Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |
| Daniel Steel |
UBC Vancouver |
Values and ethics at the crossroads of science, environmental policy, and public health; Philosophy; Diversity; Opioid crisis. |
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Medicine |
School of Population and Public Health; Department of Philosophy; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics |
Health and Wellbeing, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Sharon Stein |
UBC Vancouver |
Higher education; Indigenous studies; International and comparative education; Political economy of education; Post-colonial studies; Race/ethnicity; Social and cultural foundations of education; Social justice; Sustainability. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Educational Studies; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation |
| Craig Stephen |
UBC Vancouver |
Conservation; Global health; Emerging threat preparedness; Ecohealth; Fish and wildlife health; Health promotion; Harm reduction. |
Faculty of Medicine |
School of Population and Public Health |
Health and Wellbeing, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response |
| Mark Stevens |
UBC Vancouver |
Land use planning efforts; Sustainable development; Plan-making and implementation; Growth management; Natural hazard mitigation; Municipal climate change planning in BC; Environmental policy adoption. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Community and Regional Planning |
Urban Planning and Cities, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Policy and Governance, Land Use |
| Elise Stickles |
UBC Vancouver |
Book history; Digital humanities and Media Studies; Cognitive linguistics; Contemporary linguistics; Climate justice. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of English Language and Literatures; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice |
| Mary Stockdale |
UBC Okanagan |
Community natural resource management; Environment and resilience; Community-based management of forests, specifically non-timber forest products (NTFP); Environmental and resilience-related initiatives. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies |
Natural Resource Management, Forestry, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems |
| Roland Stull |
UBC Vancouver |
Atmospheric sciences; Green energy; Wind power; Hydro power; Weather disasters; Natural disasters; Storms; Forest-fire weather; Avalanche weather; Wind storms; Geophysical disasters. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences; Weather Forecast Research Team |
Atmospheric Science, Weather and Climate Extremes, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis, Wildfires and Forest Fires |
| Thomas Sullivan |
UBC Vancouver |
Integrated management of wildlife resources within agricultural and forest environments; Evaluation of biodiversity and sustainability in a landscape mosaic of agro-ecosystems and natural habitats. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Applied Biology Program; Applied Animal Biology Program |
Agriculture, Forestry, Biodiversity |
| Rashid Sumaila |
UBC Vancouver |
Bioeconomics; Marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies; IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries. |
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Sea Around Us; Biodiversity Research Centre; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS) |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Policy and Governance, Fisheries, Natural Resource Management |
| Juanita Sundberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Feminist political ecology; Nature conservation; Border security; Militarization; Environmental dimensions of United States’ border security policies in the United States-Mexico borderlands, with a specific focus on protected areas like national wildlife refuges. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Centre for Climate Justice; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Centre for Migration Studies |
Climate Justice, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Policy and Governance, Biodiversity |
| Terry (Terence) Sunderland |
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Biodiversity; Communities and livelihoods; Conservation; Ecosystem services; Forest management; Land-use change; Landscape ecology; Social science; Sustainability. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS); Sunderland Lab; Centre for International Forestry Research; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Natural Resource Management, Forestry, Biodiversity, Land Use, Rural and Northern Communities, Policy and Governance |
| Lisa Sundstrom |
UBC Vancouver |
Russian climate policy; Democratization; Human rights; Gender politics; Politics of international democracy assistance; NGO activism in both domestic and transnational politics; Comparative climate policy. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Political Science; Centre for European Studies |
Policy and Governance, International Negotiations and Treaties, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Environmental Law, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Curtis Suttle |
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Marine microbiology; Arctic microbiology; Biological oceanography; Marine microbiology; Environmental virology; Bacteriophage; Bacteria; Viruses; Environmental microbiology. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Botany; Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Biodiversity, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic |
| Omar Swei |
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Asset management; Life cycle modeling; Optimization methods; Real options; Reinforcement learning; Risk analysis; Sequential decision-making; Stochastic modeling; Sustainable infrastructure management; Time-series methods; Uncertainty estimation and propagation. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Microplastic Cluster |
Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Transportation, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Water Resources and Supply, Climate Risk Management, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis |
| Fariborz Taghipour |
UBC Vancouver |
Chemical and photochemical systems with application to energy and environmental engineering; Sustainable ways of producing solar fuels by utilizing earth-abundant materials and cost-effective processes; Water purification. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Solar Energy, Water Resources and Supply, Pollution, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Health and Wellbeing |
| James Tansey |
UBC Vancouver |
Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading; Social determinants of health; GM crops and animals; Social innovation; Impact investing and social finance; Social entrepreneurship; Ecosystem service markets; Social acceptability of technology; Institutional theories of risk. |
Sauder School of Business |
Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing; Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics ; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Commerce and Business Administration; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Carbon Management, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Policy and Governance, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Alexanda Victoria Tavasoli |
UBC Vancouver |
Industrial decarbonization; Community-based and/or distributed infrastructure; Chemical and material manufacturing processes; Carbon dioxide capture and conversion; Photocatalysis. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Cluster of Research Excellence in Solar Energy for Net Zero; Centre for Climate Justice |
Carbon Management, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Solar Energy, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Alexandra Victoria Tavasoli |
UBC Vancouver |
Industrial decarbonization; Carbon dioxide capture and utilization; Photocatalytic CO₂ methanation; Solar-driven chemical manufacturing; Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical greenhouse gas conversion; Distributed and modular manufacturing processes; Direct air carbon capture; Low-carbon chemical and materials manufacturing; Circular economy processes; Techno-economic and life cycle analysis; Social impact assessment of industrial systems; Solar methanol production; Photocatalytic dry reforming of methane; Sustainable resource system design. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Laboratory of Future Industry |
Carbon Management, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Product Lifecycle or Circular Economy, Sustainable Materials and Composites, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Zelalem Taye |
UBC Vancouver |
Plant and soil microbiome; Microbial assembly processes; Synthetic microbial communities; Plant and soil health; Soil microbes and crop productivity; Ecosystem productivity and resilience; Climate-resilient plant breeding; Species distribution modeling; Non-wood forest products; Ectomycorrhizal fungi and wild edible mushrooms; Sustainable forest management; Indigenous knowledge and forest ecosystems; Drought stress and plant resilience; Land use change impacts; Invasive species effects; Genomic tools and ecological modeling; Bioinformatics; Agricultural and urban ecosystem sustainability; One Health research approaches. |
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Applied Biology Program; Soil and Plant Science Program |
Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, Sustainable Materials and Composites, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Natural Resource Management, Climate Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Rick (Eric) Taylor |
UBC Vancouver |
Biodiversity; Speciation; Fishes; Conservation; Biogeography; Ecological and molecular approaches to understanding the origins and persistence of biodiversity. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
Biodiversity, Freshwater Systems |
| Chris Tenove |
UBC Vancouver |
Political communication; Democratic institutions; Tech policy; Social media and messaging platforms; Elections and elections policy; Disinformation; Online abuse; Democratic theory; Grounded and feminist political theory. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) |
Policy and Governance |
| John R.J. Thompson |
UBC Okanagan |
Nonparametric statistics; Distance metric learning; Clustering; Change-point analysis; Applications to wildfire science; Behavioural finance and climate finance. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics |
Wildfires and Forest Fires, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Climate Finance and Investment |
| Coll Thrush |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous and settler colonial histories; Place-based and urban Indigenous histories; Northwest Coast and Pacific histories; Maritime and oceanic histories; Environmental history; Shipwreck and marine ecosystems; Indigenous survivance and cultural resilience; Narrative, memoir, and historical representation. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of History |
Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Urban Planning and Cities, Freshwater Systems, Oceans and Coastal Systems |
| Yves Tiberghien |
UBC Vancouver |
Global governance; Global climate change politics; Governance of agricultural biotechnology in China and Japan; Trade-offs between economic policy goals and public goods such as biodiversity protection, transparency in food policy, and climate change issues. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Political Science; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Hong Kong Studies Initiative; Centre for Korean Research; Institute of Asian Research |
Policy and Governance, Business Processes and Corporate Governance, Agriculture |
| David Tindall |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental movements; Social movements; Environmental protest; Social protest; Social networks; Social aspects of climate change and of forestry; Aboriginal protest about natural resources and environmental issues; Environmental politics; Environmental attitudes; Environmental values; Protests about pipelines, oil sands, and tar sands; Wilderness; Wilderness preservation; Use of social media in social protest and social movements; Climate change policy; News media; Social psychology of environmental issues; Environmental sociology; Social research methods; Aboriginal forestry. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology |
Policy and Governance, Climate Justice, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Forestry, Environmental Psychology, Land Use |
| Lisa Tobber |
UBC Okanagan |
Structural engineering; Tall buildings; Seismic design of precast concrete; Disaster resilient buildings; Reinforced concrete buildings. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil); Advanced Structural Simulation & Experimentation Group; Build Better Research Cluster; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Climate Risk Management |
