With over 400 faculty investigating sustainability-related topics at UBC, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve curated a list of researchers with expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

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Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre; cofounder of Treenomix (a foundation of genomics knowledge; promotes forest health and sustainable forest stewardship for future generations)
Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory; Race and Racism; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Focused on global food production, climate change, and forms of war, this project draws from anticolonial...
Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; low-carbon future scenarios visualized...

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Harris, Sara

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Climate science education, teaches free online course "Climate Change: The Science" on edX.

Harrison, Kathryn

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy

Hart, Miranda

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
microbial ecology, applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, etc.

Hasan, Mohammad Khalad

FoS (Okanagan)
CMPS
human-computer interaction; modelling for greener transportation

Hassan, Marwan

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Geomorphology; hydrology; landscape evolution; stream ecology; urban hydrology; desert floods; water quality; water resources.

Heatherington, Tracey

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
As a Sociocultural Anthropologist interested in globalization, development and political ecology, I examine environmental concerns in the context of social justice. My early research analyzed how powerful discourses about nature conservation can reproduce colonial and racist visions of culture and environment. I continue the critical study of biodiversity conservation at a broader scale, in relation to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. My current research examines diverse cultural projects of seed banking and seed saving, including the envisioned role of agricultural science, technology and institutions in international efforts to adapt to climate change.

Heckman, Nancy

Science (Vancouver)
Statistics
Monitoring energy use in UBC buildings

Heine, Steven

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Cultural psychology; the self; motivations; meaning; essentialistic thinking.

Helsley, Robert

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Growth and development of urban areas; the economics of urban sprawl; urban blight and redevelopment; impacts of economic growth on land and housing prices; causes and consequences of privatization in the public sector

Henderson, Sarah

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
My work spans a wide range of topics including: air pollution from all provincially relevant sources (wildfire smoke, residential woodsmoke, industry, road dust, shipping, and vehicles); extreme weather events; radon gas; food safety; water quality; and exposures managed by the Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC)

Henry, Annette

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Race, class, language, gender and culture in socio-cultural contexts of teaching and learning in the lives of Black students, Black oral histories, and Black women teachers’ practice in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean

Henry, Greg

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Consequences of environmental change, driven by the changing climate, on Arctic tundra ecosystems; help Arctic communities to understand and interpret observations of environmental change by elders through shared field and class experiences and participation in science-based projects on berry producing shrub species

Hermansen, Sally

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Geographic Information Science; visualizing environmental history

Herrington, Susan

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Theories in landscape architecture; contested landscapes, including landscapes for risk; design theories of contemporary landscape architecture, including theories regarding children’s landscapes

Hewage, Kasun

Engineering (Okanagan)
smart energy, waste management in construction, sustainability analysis

Hiebert, Dan

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Immigration, diversity, national security

Hilario, Carla

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing
health equity, youth mental health, community resilience

Hilario, Carla

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

Hinch, Scott

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Salmon migration behavioural physiology and ecology; Land-use effects on fish ecology and habitat; Adult salmon migration survival, behaviour, energetics, physiology, habitat use, environmental cues, effects of fisheries and capture-release, passage in regulated rivers, disease and pathogens

Hirsh, Elizabeth

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Employment discrimination and the impact of antidiscrimination laws and corporate diversity policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality in the workplace

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