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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De Longis, Anita

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Social Determinants of Health

de Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Education for/about international development, Social accountability in local and global engagements, Global Citizenship Education

Dempsey, Jessica

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Environmental politics; political ecology; how biodiversity loss continues despite the proliferation of international, national and regional conservation laws, policies and advocacy efforts

Deyholos, Michael

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology
plant genetics and genomics and use in renewable composites, abiotic stress tolerance

Dick, Alexander

Arts (Vancouver)
English Language and Literatures
Literature and Economics; Literature and the Environment

Dipple, Gregory

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Carbon sequestration, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions

Dixon, David

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Materials Engineering
Hydromet Group: It is becoming significantly more important to be able to extract resources from lower grade ores in an economically viable and environmentally sustainable manner.; fixed-bed leaching; fundamentals of hydrometallurgical reactors

Dobson, Teresa

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Digital literacy and digital culture, digital humanities, text visualization, literary engagement in multiple media, writing and multimodality, literary education.

Donner, Simon

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Climate Changes and Impacts, Prediction and Climatic Modeling, Marine Environment; Climate change science, Climate policy, Science communication, Coastal Ecosystems

Dow-Fleisner, Sarah

FHSD (Okanagan)
Social Work

Dowlatabadi, Hadi

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Energy Production, Economic Planning of Energy, Climate Changes and Impacts, Transportation Systems; The systematic study of systems at the interface of humans, nature, technology and policy

Duff, David

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Environmental taxation, distributive justice

Dulic, Aleksandra

FCCS (Okanagan)
Creative Studies
climate change

Dummer, Trevor

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Health geography, environmental exposures, health inequalities, geographic information science, Environmental epidemiology and environment and health interactions, with specific emphasis on cancer etiology and cancer prevention

Dunbar, Scott

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Development of advanced mining and mineral processing methods

Dunford, William

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical power conversion, electric vehicles, alternative enery and sustainable development, DC systems with load and battery management., Clean Energy

Dunn, Elizabeth

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Happiness; how mobile technology can both support and undermine human well-being

Dyck, Brendan

FoS (Okanagan)
CMPS
petrology, planetary science, green/sustainable mining

Early, Margaret

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Adolescent Issues; English as a Second Language; Language Education; Literacy; Multiple Literacies; PedagogyTeacher; ResearchWriting; and Reading

Eaton, Brett

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Rivers and climate change

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