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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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Madden, John

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
New and unusual electronic materials for application in solar cells, energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), printable electronics and as artificial muscle.

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/john-madden

Madiseh, Ali

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Mine-Mechanical Equipment, Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Conservation, Energy storage, Energy decarbonization

https://mining.ubc.ca/ali-g-madiseh/

Magnat, Virginie

FCCS (Okanagan)
English and Cultural Studies
Culture, creativity, health & wellbeing; Indigenous epistomologies and methodologies

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/virginie-magnat/

Mahmoud, Soheil

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
natural products biotechnology

https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/soheil-mahmoud/

Maldonado, Maite

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The role of trace metal availability in controlling the ecology and evolution of marine phytoplankton and bacteria; The role of the biota in controlling biogeochemical cycles of trace elements in the ocean ; Trace elements regulation of harmful algal blooms; 'biological carbon pump'; regulation of the global carbon cycle; GEOTRACES group

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

Mansfield, Shawn

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Tree biotechnology; Trees and the Environment; Remediation of anthropogenic contaminants: phosphorous, salt, heavy metals.

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/shawn-mansfield

Mansoor, Jaleh

Arts (Vancouver)
Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Painting in the context of Marshall Plan Italy, materialist aesthetic abstraction in both modern and contemporary art, bio-politics and theories of subsumption.

https://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/jaleh-mansoor/

Margulis, Matias

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Improve our knowledge of the global governance of food security; food insecurity; the renewed centrality of food security in global governance and policy, especially in the context of agricultural trade liberalization, large-scale land acquisitions (A.K.A. “land grabs”), international human rights agreements and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/matias-margulis/

Marker, Michael

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Ethnohistorical perspective on educational conditions for Indigenous people in Canada and the US, linking place with history; histories of residential schooling across the Canada-US border for Coast Salish people

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/michael-marker

Marshall, Peter

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Quantifying and forecasting stand and forest dynamics, particularly with respect to uneven-aged and/or mixed species (complex) stands; biometrics, forest measurements, modelling, sampling design, stand dynamics

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/peter-marshall

Marti, Jose

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer modelling of response to disasters, Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulation (I2Sim) project, electric power, Energy systems

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/Jose-Marti

Martin Ginis, Kathleen

FHSD (Okanagan)
HES

Martin, Kathy

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Conservation of birds in high elevation habitats; Nest Webs – cavity nesting bird community dynamics in natural and managed forests in relation to forest cutting regimes and natural disturbance events

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/kathy-martin

Martin, Tara

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Models, Conservation, Ecological Monitoring, Ecology, Land-use Change, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Planning, Modelling

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/tara-martin

Martin-Matthews, Anne

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Aging and lifecourse; health and society; health and social care services especially home and community care; intersections of formal and informal care, especially involving the nexus of the public and private spheres; transitional life events such as widowhood

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/anne-martin-matthews/

Martone, Patrick

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Algal physiology and climate change

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/patrick-martone

Mason, Chase

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
crop biodiversity; sustainable and climate-resilient food supplies

https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/chase-mason/

Masse, Louise

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Obesity prevention; Physical activity assessment; School policies & impact on children’s behaviours (e.g., physical activity and nutrition); Lifestyle behavioral modification interventions (e-Health)

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/louise-masse/

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 writings and postcolonial theory and places them in conversation with the philosophy of time, movement, and change in the work Henri Bergson.

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/renisa-mawani/

Mayer, Ulrich

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Geochemical evolution of low-temperature groundwater systems with a focus on groundwater contamination and remediation; groundwater contamination problems and remediation solutions;

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

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