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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Olsen, Lise

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

Ordonez, Martin

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Energy systems, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, battery systems, fuel cells, electric vehicles, smart grid.

Orians, Kristin

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Chemical Oceanography: Trace metals in seawater; GEOTRACES group

Orsi, Anais

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
I am a polar climate scientist, combining fieldwork in key locations, innovation in the lab, and interactions with the modelling community to better quantify our understanding of polar climate variability at the decadal to millennial scale, and to better assess the risks associated with the current global warming. Climate change; Polar climate; Isotope geochemistry; Data analysis, inverse modeling; Paleoclimate

Otto, Sally

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
Evolutionary theory; biodiversity

Pakhomov, Evgeny

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Biological oceanographry; species ecology; ecosystem structure; variability and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change using stable isotopes, large-scale and retrospective analyses; land-sea interface

Pakpour, Sepideh

Engineering (Okanagan)
healthy built environment

Parfrey, Laura

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Microbial ecology, microbial diversity, microbiome, protists

Parrott, Lael

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
human-environment systems, natural resource management, landscape science

Patrick, David

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Emerging infectious diseases. Institution and evaluation of programs to control antimicrobial misuse and curb antibiotic resistance. Linking clinical, epidemiological and genomic sciences to explore etiology of idiopathic chronic diseases

Paulson, Tim

FASS (Okanagan)
History/Sociology
environmental history

Pauly, Daniel

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
World fisheries, marine life, global catch, Management of fisheries, ecosystem modeling

Peck, Jamie

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Urban and regional political economy, restructuring, economic regulation and transformation, policy

Peleato, Nicolás

Engineering (Okanagan)
drinking water treatment processes, water quality

Pelletier, Nathan

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
Sustainability measurement and management

Perrin, Benjamin

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Victims of Crime, Human Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation

Peterson, Jenny

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Politics of international aid; the process of liberal peacebuilding and critiques thereof; conceptual and empirical deviations from the liberal model; agonism, resistance, hybridity and political space; diversity and innovation, both local and international, in peace/justice movements; international relations, comparative politics, humanitarian studies and peace studies.

Phinney, Alison

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
Capacities of older people for successfully coping with the functional consequences of aging and disease. Family and community support for frail older people both within and outside the traditional health care system. Cognitive impairment due to a dementing illness.

Pidwirny, Michael

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
climate change impact assessment and adaptation

Pinar, William

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Curriculum Studies Research; Gender; Curriculum theory; International studies

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