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Research Interests Ethical duties of businesses with respect to current events; the political interests and rights of corporations; responsibility of the financial industry for the Global Financial Crisis; ethics of pharmaceutical pricing; business ethics

Research Interests Design and development of improved catalysts and catalytic processes; issues related to Canadian energy; investigation of hydrogen production by catalytic methane decomposition, synthesis gas conversion to alcohols and hydrocarbons, residue and bio-oil hydroconversion (upgrading) as well as hydrogen storage using heteroaromatic liquids.

Research Interests Life cycle assessment; Integrated and sustainable forest biomass supply chain

Research Interests ‘Molecular Environmental Archaeology’ – the application of biomolecular techniques to a broad range of environmental issues and human-environment interactions in the past and in the present. My research explores how humans have shaped their physical world, from broad-scale impacts on ancient ecosystems to the micro-environment of the human body. Marine Ecosystems: Long-term fishing and subsistence patterns; marine biogeography and biodiversity; documenting shifting baselines; patterns of resource management, sustainable development, traditional resources management, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Human-Animal Interactions: Social and ecological impacts of human-environmental interactions; hunting strategies; human impacts on biodiversity; animal domestication (turkeys); conservation biology.

Research Interests Biodiversity, tropics, Costa Rica, insects, mites, food webs, habitat loss, Community ecology, conservation, how species loss from food webs can affect the way ecosystems function

Research Interests Adult education; Disability studies; Equity and Diversity; Media and democracy; Policy; Social justice; received a grant from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies to develop a working group focusing on the possibilities of cooperatives for building resilience in higher learning in the face of epidemics and climate change

Research Interests Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces

Research Interests Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, International and Comparative Education, Political economy of education, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Social justice, Sustainability

Research Interests Teaching and learning benefits of socially networked, online Community Mapping tools and the unique potential of locative media for social justice initiatives on the UBC campus