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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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Reid, Colin

FHSD (Okanagan)
HES

Renneckar, Scott

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Advanced renewable materials; Biopolymer structure characterization; Clean fractionation of biomass; Electrospinning Fibers; Nanocellulose; Self-assembly of biopolymers

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/scott-renneckar

Renwick, Kerry

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Health and food literacy as situated practices, health promotion, and social justice in context of K-12 educational settings; home economics education, a teaching specialization whose content and practice is inherently linked to sustainable food systems

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/kerry-renwick/

Reynolds, Graham

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Intellectual Property and Human Rights, Technology and Access to Justice

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/graham-reynolds

Rheault, Mark

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
insect-plant interactions

https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/mark-rheault/

Rhemtulla, Jeanine

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Ecosystem services; Reforestation; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems; Historical ecology, especially reconstructing and assessing land-use legacies; Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services; Trade-offs between conservation & poverty alleviation

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/jeanine-rhemtulla

Ri Li, Sunny

Engineering (Okanagan)
Thermal-fluidics in Sustainable Energy Systems

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/sunny-ri-li/

Riano-Alcala, Pilar

Arts (Vancouver)
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Historical Memory and the politics of commemoration and witnessing, Forced migration (internal displacement and refuge), Community organizing, everyday resistance and social repair

https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/person/pilar-riano-alcala/

Richardson, John

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Ecology, freshwater biology, food webs, streams

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

Rieseberg, Loren

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Plant evolutionary biology, adaptation, speciation, crops, weeds, invasive plants

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/loren-rieseberg

Riseman, Andrew

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Plant breeding; plant genetics; horticulture; roots; stress physiology, Plant breeding, intercrop interactions, nutrient use efficiency, root physiology, biotic/abtioic stressor

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/andrew-riseman/

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)

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/kermit-ritland

Robertson, Leslie

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Circulation of forms of social knowledge (public histories, academic theories and representations, colonial legends, medical discourses), in sensitive political and cultural contexts (settler colonialism, medical crises, resource extraction, tourism development)

https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/leslie-robertson/

Roecker, Inge

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable forms of urban habitation

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/inge-roecker

Roehr, Daniel

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable communities; sustainable design; integration of living roofs as holistic system for stormwater management

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/daniel-roehr

Rogak, Steve

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Aerosols; atmospheric contaminants; impact on human health; concentrations of aerosols in the indoor and outdoor environments; filtration systems that do not require excessive energy consumption.; new fuel injectors and injection strategies to minimize particle formation in compression ignition engines

https://mech.ubc.ca/steven-rogak/

Rogers, Lindsay

Medicine (Vancouver)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Environmental science and environmental health where biochemical understanding can elucidate complex and often controversial global issues.

https://biochem.ubc.ca/person/lindsay-rogers/

Rogers, Theresa

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Working with youth on critical literacies and arts-integrated media production in school and community settings. How youth use print and multimodal resources to engage in cultural discourse and critique. New literacies among youth in schools and among women in a remote community in Botswana. Literary theoretical perspectives in relation to contemporary adolescent literature.

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/theresa-rogers/

Rojas Gaona, Orlando

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Supporting global sustainable development through research on the fundamental and utilization aspects of renewable resources, including lignocellulose, proteins and other biopolymers; aims to discover competitive alternatives for fossil materials.

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/orlando-rojas/

Ronquillo, Charlene

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

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