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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Pitcher, Tony

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Evaluation of the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems with special emphasis on restoration ecology, development of a predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behavior impacts fisheries

Pither, Jason

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
landscape ecology, biodiversity conservation

Plamondon, Katrina

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

Poole, David

Science (Vancouver)
Computer Science
Decision making for complex decisions. Projects have included preference elicitation for group decision making, forestry planning, and predicting landslides. The overall theme is to make decisions based on, rich ontologies, complex preferences and detailed (probabilistic relational) models.

Pottinger, Rachel

Science (Vancouver)
Computer Science
Meta-data management, data integration systems, ARTIFACT

Potvin, Gabriel

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bioprocessing, Industrial Microbiology, Microalgal Biotechnology, Sustainable Engineering, Interdisciplinary Education

Pranckevicius, Conor

FoS (Okanagan)
Chemistry
sustainable catalysts and functional materials

Pratt, Geraldine

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Filipino women working in Canada as domestic workers on temporary work visas; issue of family separation and the long term marginalization of families sponsored by domestic workers after they gain permanent resident status in Canada. Temporary labour migration worldwide.

Prescott, Cindy

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Ecosystem restoration and soil reclamation; Effects of clearcutting and other silvicultural systems on N availability

Price, Richard

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
International Cooperation; international relations; Ethics and World Politics; International Relations Theory; Global Norms

Protopopova, Alexandra

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Improve animal shelter practices; improve companion animal welfare through the development of behavioural interventions in shelters as well as pet homes; assess and improve on the well-being of dogs working in assistance roles

Quayle, Moura

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Urban design, green cities, sustainable business

Rader, Matthew

FCCS (Okanagan)
Creative Studies
community-engaged writing, eco-cultures

Radic, Valentina

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Glaciology, Meteorology, Climate Science

Ragoonaden, Karen

Education (Okanagan)
mindfulness and wellbeing, culturally responsive pedagogy

Raibmon, Paige

Arts (Vancouver)
History
Indigenous peoples and colonialism on the Northwest Coast in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries; social movements; environmental justice; political implications of cultural representation; inequality

Ramana, M.V.

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Energy Production; nuclear disarmament; arms control; nuclear policy; risk of nuclear accidents; international security and energy supply, with a particular focus on topics related to nuclear energy and fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons.

Ramankutty, Navin

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Environment and Society, Agriculture, Climate Changes and Impacts; Global food security, Sustainable agriculture, Climate impacts, Land use change

Regmi, Kapil

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Adult education, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, International Development Education, Lifelong Learning, Policy, Political economy of education, Research methodologies, Sociology of Education, Sustainability

Reid, Andrea

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Dr. Andrea Reid is an Indigenous fisheries scientist who employs community-based approaches and Indigenous research methodologies in her study of culturally significant fish and fisheries. Her freshwater and coastal research creates space for fishers, knowledge keepers, youth, and other community members to be full partners in the research process. Together, they investigate: (i) leading threats to aquatic ecosystems and their interactive effects for fish, people and place; (ii) consequences of fisheries-related stressors for fish and methods to ameliorate survival; (iii) Two-Eyed Seeing approaches to assessing aquatic ecosystem and fish health and evaluating associated changes through time and space; and (iv) Indigenous understandings and methodologies for effectively stewarding fish and waterways.

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