Gary Bradfield, Science
Gary is an Associate Professor in the Botany Department. His research focuses on plant community ecology including forest, grassland, and wetland communities. He explores the relationships among species composition (vegetation structure) and environmental variables, and applies his research results to assist with management decisions relating to habitat fragmentation, and restoration and resilience of communities to climate change and disturbance.  Gary has extensive collaborative experience with other research groups, and advises on sampling design and multivariate statistical data analysis.  Gary has served as Undergraduate Program Advisor in Biology and as Chair, Botany Graduate Studies Committee.

Erica Frank, Medicine
Erica Frank, MD, MPH is a professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and a Canada Research Chair.  She is the founder and principal investigator of the “Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient” initiative which delineates and builds on the relationship between physicians’ personal and clinical practices.  Erica is also founder and director of Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info), which aims to create a global virtual health sciences university. She is also past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Ron Kellett, Applied Science (SALA)
Ronald Kellett is a Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia where he teaches and undertakes research linking issues of environment and sustainability to the form and spatial patterns of cities.  He holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture and has practiced and taught architecture and urban design at the Universities of Oregon and British Columbia.  His work has contributed to the development of environment- and sustainability- oriented urban design knowledge, prototypes, standards, guidelines, design tools and indicators.

Susan Nesbit, Applied Science

Since joining the University of British Columbia in 2000, Susan has obtained extensive training in adult education through UBC's Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (TAG) and has developed and taught core and elective courses pertaining to sustainability in engineering for programs offered by the Department of Civil Engineering. For more information pertaining to Susan and her work, please see www.blogs.ubc.ca/nesbit.

Andrew Riseman, Land and Food Systems
Andrew is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with a strong interest in student-centered, active pedagogies and in developing learning objects and technologies that help create enhanced learning environments.  Andrew’s research focuses on breeding of crops for sustainable production systems and helping to create more sustainable food systems integrated with attractive and livable communities.  Andrew is also the USI-UBC Farm Liaison, the Academic Director for Centre for Sustainable Food Systems-UBC Farm, a researcher at the UBC Botanical Garden, and an Associate Member in the Department of Botany.

Rob VanWynsberghe, Education
Rob is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies. His teaching/learning, research, and community service focuses on sustainability and the related areas of social movements and capacity building. Rob’s research and educational interests are multi-dimensional, fully participatory, and sensitive to local problems. He employs diverse strategies in the classroom and in the "living lab" of community-based research. Rob’s classrooms feature multi-stakeholder engagement exercises used to develop criteria for doing classroom-based research to address local problems. One question that inspires Rob is “What curricula and pedagogy foster learning about and contributing to the sustainability social movement?”