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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Ritland, Kermit

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)
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Mawani, Renisa

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...

Sheppard, Stephen

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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Hoberg, George

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Forest policy, energy policy, environmental policy, trade and environment, softwood lumber, Olympics, Aboriginal issues (land rights), Forestry policy

https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/george-hoberg/

Hodges, Karen

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
ecology, conservation biology, habitat loss, wildfires and wildlife

https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/karen-hodges/

Hole, Rachelle

FHSD (Okanagan)
Social Work

Holmes, Nancy

FCCS (Okanagan)
Creative Studies
ecopoetics, community- and place-based art

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/nancy-holmes/

Holuszko, Maria

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Recovery of metals from industrial and municipal waste streams; Urban Mining; biomass waste from forestry and tailings from coal mining to produce new bio-renewable fuel for the power industry

https://mining.ubc.ca/maria-e-holuszko/

Honey-Roses, Jordi

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Environmental planning; water resource management; impact evaluation

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/jordi-honey-roses

Hoppmann, Christiane

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/christiane-hoppmann/

Hornibrook, Ed

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases; natural and restored wetlands

https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/ed-hornibrook/

Hossain, Jahangir

Engineering (Okanagan)
energy efficient technologies for wireless systems

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/jahangir-hossain/

Hu, Min

FASS (Okanagan)
EPP

Hübner, Kurt

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Sustainability and innovation policies; politics and economics of European integration as well as on contradictions and complementarities of sustainability and international competitiveness

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/kurt-huebner/

Huddart Kennedy, Emily

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Human-environmental relationships; what motivates civic engagement in efforts to protect the environment?; how do pro-environmental practices reflect and reproduce social differences?; Household-level Sustainable Consumption. Alternative Food Initiatives. Gender, Politics and Social Class in Environmentalism.

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/emily-huddart-kennedy/

Hudson, Zachary

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
Development of new materials to address issues of sustainability in chemistry and materials science; . Projects will examine the synthesis of organic and organometallic materials directed towards applications in sensing, printed electronics, and efficient solid-state lighting.

https://www.chem.ubc.ca/zachary-hudson

Hughes, Will

Engineering (Okanagan)
Low-cost DNA-based computing

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/william-hughes/

Hunt, Brian

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Biological oceanographer; broad interests in the structure and function of pelagic marine ecosystems, and their response to climate forcing and anthropogenic impacts; plankton dynamics, the response of these lower trophic levels to bottom-up forcing by climatic and oceanographic conditions, and the implications of this response for mid-trophic levels, including forage and juvenile fish, as well as top predators; Antarctic, tropical South Pacific, New Zealand, Mediterranean, North Pacific and Arctic.

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/brianhunt

Hymel, Shelley

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Bullying, SEL Teacher Education, Social and Emotional Learning in Children and Youth

https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/person/shelley-hymel/

Ielpi, Alessandro

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
watersheds, rivers, and floodplains

https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/alessandro-ielpi/

Ignace, Danielle

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
How global change (climate change, landscape disturbance, and non-native species invasions) impacts ecosystem function and Indigenous communities.

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/danielle-ignace/

Innes, John

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Plants and Forests, Climate Changes and Impacts; Forestry

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/john-innes

Irwin, Darren

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
How new species arise, how geographical variation within species is produced, and how behaviors evolve

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/darren-irwin

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