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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McAllister, Murdoch

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Statistical methods for fisheries risk assessment, estimation, decision analysis and management strategy evaluation

McAusland, Carol

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Interactions between globalization and public good provision, impacts of trade liberalization on environmental politics, potential use of trade policy to stem damages from exotic species introductions and biological invasions Environmental impacts of international trade, implications of skilled labor migration for the global provision of public goods

McDonald, Fiona

FASS (Okanagan)
CCGS
water rights, resilient Indigneous housing

McGrail, Kim

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Variations in health care services use across patients, providers and regions, and their relationship to population health; Aging and the use of health and social services; Personal, economic, and social factors that produce health at an individual and population level, and the role of the health care system in that process

McIntosh, Lawrence

Medicine (Vancouver)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Macromolecular structure and dynamics. NMR spectroscopy of biological systems. Eukaryotic gene regulation and signal transduction. Enzymatic degradation of cellulose for biofuels.

McKee, William

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Planning and delivery of psychological and educational services to students with special needs.

McKellin, William

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Medical, linguistic and cultural anthropology; socio-linguistics and discourse analysis; clinical medical anthropology; genetics and society; international health; cognitive anthropology; kinship and social organization; Papua New Guinea; Canada

McKendry, Ian

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Air pollution, Climatology

McLeod, Chris

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
How institutional and economic structures across countries affect health and health inequalities over the working life course, using high quality comparable longitudinal data from representative economies to examine the relationship between employment and working conditions and worker health within and across countries.

McManus, Ali

FHSD (Okanagan)
HES

McNeil, Chris

FHSD (Okanagan)
HES

McPhee, Siobhán

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Economic geography; labor geography; newly emerging global cities; migrant labour

Mehrkhodavandi, Parisa

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
The power of catalysis to address environmental challenges; “green” polymers that are either derived from biorenewable sources and/or are biodegradable in composts, in the oceans, or in the human body; Synthesis and characterization of new families of bio-based / biodegradable / green polymers

Meitner, Mike

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Environmental psychologist whose research is focused on scenic beauty and aesthetics of the natural world, environmental visualization and geographic information systems, and sustainability planning

Menghawni, Vikas

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
environmental conservation and management; sustainbility pedagogy

Menzies, Charles

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Fisheries crises, traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge, social inequality, neo-liberalism, Tsimshian, ethnoecology, First Nations land claims, Natural resource management, fish, political economy, aboriginal

Mérida, Walter

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Clean energy, Low carbon fuels, Fuel cells and hydrogen

Meyboom, AnnaLisa

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Transportation Infrastructure and Public Space

Michal, Carl

Science (Vancouver)
Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear magnetic resonance, biological and energy storage materials

Michaletz, Sean

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
We are interested in the physical processes linking environmental variation to plant physiology, and how this “scales up” to influence higher-level patterns and processes.  To investigate these topics, we use interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon fields such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and geoscience.  Our work often involves development of mechanistic theory and models, which are parameterized, tested, and refined using data from the laboratory and the field.  We also focus on long-term monitoring of climate, ecophysiology, and vegetation dynamics in our growing network of Forest MacroSystems sites located around the world.

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