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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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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Chen, Frances

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Social health; Receptiveness and Open-Mindedness to Opposing Opinions; Smartphones, Social Media, and Health; Social and Hormonal Influences on Eating; Social Buffering of Stress; Social Integration and Health

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/frances-chen/

Chen, Qian

Engineering (Okanagan)
circular economy

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/qian-chen/

Chen, Yuan

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
geochcemisry and geologic resources, environmentally friendly mining

https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/yuan-chen/

CHeng, Juian

Engineering (Okanagan)
UV wildfire detection

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/julian-cheng/

Cherkowski, Sabre

Education (Okanagan)
educator wellbeing, learning communities, organizational wellbeing

https://education.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/sabre-cherkowski/

Cheung, William

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems and their goods and services

https://oceans.ubc.ca/william-cheung/

Christen, Andreas

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Greenhouse gas emissions in complex ecosystems; energy and water exchange in urban ecosystems; sustainable design and management practices for cities.

http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/~achristn/christen.html

Christensen, Villy

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, Ecosystem modeling of aquatic ecosystems, management systems that are resilient to climate change, policy

https://oceans.ubc.ca/villy-christensen/

Christie, Gordon

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Trans-cultural tort law, Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous legal theory

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/gordon-christie

Clifford, Robert

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory, including on legal pluralism, Indigenous language revitalization, and Indigenous spirituality. The ways WSÁNE? laws are generated by and reflect the values, philosophies, lands, and worldviews of the WSÁNE? people.

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/robert-clifford

Cohen, Bill

Education (Okanagan)
Syilx children-centred model of learning, sustaining place-based relationships and ecological diversity

https://education.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/bill-cohen/

Cole, Peter

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Indigenous Education Research; Aboriginalizing/indigenizing research methodology; Environmental thought; Indigenous self-determination and self-governance; Traditional Aboriginal and Indigenous technologies

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/peter-cole/

Coleman, Katharina

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
International organizations, international security/peace operations, international rules, noms and legitimacy

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/katharina-coleman/

Collier, Christopher

Engineering (Okanagan)
sustainable food engineering

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/christopher-collier/

Condon, Patrick

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable urban design; landscape architecture; sustainable communities

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/patrick-condon

Connolly, James

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Social-ecological conflicts in the urban environment; Institutional challenges of urban climate and environmental governance; Urban green planning; Urban riskscapes; Justice challenges with urban ecosystem services; Urban environmental stewardship; Urban Spatial Analysis

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/james-connolly

Coops, Nicholas

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Ecosystem and carbon accumulation modeling for biodiversity, production and greenhouse calculations; wildfire, post fire severity and fuel hazard load mapping from real-time remote sensing

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/nicholas-coops

Copeland, Brian

Arts (Vancouver)
Vancouver School of Economics
Environmental economics, interaction between globalization, the environment, and the sustainability of renewable resources

https://economics.ubc.ca/faculty-and-staff/brian-r-copeland/

Corbett, John

FASS (Okanagan)

Cornelis, Jean-Thomas

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
My research program is directed towards studying feedbacks between soil processes and biogeochemical cycling of elements in terrestrial environments affected by natural and anthropogenic-induced changes. My process-based approach focus on the soil system, which by nature, integrates processes at different scales and from different disciplines. My current research projects, centered on pedology, go from soil biogeochemical processes, soil-plant feedback interactions and biogeochemical cycling of elements under various pedological, biotic, climatic and geological conditions to more diverse interests by collaborating with research teams in applied geochemistry, functional ecology, plant physiology and soil microbial processes. My primary research objective is to apply the knowledge of soil science for the purpose of suggesting sustainable management of ecosystems: increasing the resistance and resilience of soil-plant systems while decreasing human-induced pressures on the environment.

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/jean-thomas-cornelis/

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