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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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Abdi, Ali

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Citizenship and human rights education; International Development Education

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/ali-abdi/

Affolder, Natasha

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
International Environmental Law, Biodiversity Law, Law and Sustainability

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/natasha-affolder

Ahenakew, Cash

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Cultural studies, Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of Education

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/cash-ahenakew/

Aitken, Sally

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Climate change; Ecological genetics; Conservation genetics

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/sally-aitken

Alam, Shahria

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Civil Engineering
Smart materials; Seismic rehabilitation of steel, concrete, masonry; Seismic analysis and building design

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/shahria-alam/

Alila, Younes

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Forest hydrology; watershed management; in order to solve urgent operational problems and provide a solid foundation on which to build sustainable forest and water resources management in BC

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/younes-alila

Allen, Susan

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Prediction and Climatic Modeling; Oceans and Inland Waters; coastal oceanography, mesoscale meteorology and biogeochemical-physical interactions in the ocean. GEOTRACES group

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/susanallen

Altintas, Yusuf

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Control of Machines, metal cutting mechanics, machine tool vibrations, precision machining, virtual machining, mechatronics.

https://mech.ubc.ca/yusuf-altintas/

Ameli, Ali

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Hydrologist exploring how water and solutes move and react within watersheds; how these movements and reactions change with climate variability and land-use alteration; how these changes impact terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; development of interdisciplinary approaches for water security assessments and watershed management; water conservation; water protection; interaction amongst hydrological, geochemical and ecological processes to inform watershed management, planning and engineering designs with the end-goal of managing the environmental impacts of climate variability and land-use alteration on groundwater (and surfacewater) resources.

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/aliameli

Anderson, Siwan

Arts (Vancouver)
Vancouver School of Economics
Development economics; micro-level institutions; the role of gender

https://economics.ubc.ca/faculty-and-staff/siwan-anderson/

Angeles, Leonora

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and other gender planning related tools, including feminist critiques and perspectives on the intergration of gender and other social axes of difference and diversity in community planning and international development work

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/nora-angeles

Angert, Amy

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Biodiversity and Biocomplexity, Biogeography, Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes; evolutionary ecology, population biology, biological responses to climate change, Conservation Biology

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/amy-angert

Antweiler, Werner

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
International environmental issues; trade and the environment; Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI); Environmental Economics and Management, Energy and Electricity Economics

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/werner-antweiler

Aquino, Karl

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Moral Cognition and Behaviour; Status and Social Dominance; Organizational Justice; Workplace Victimization

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/karl-aquino

Arbel, Efrat

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Migration Law; Aboriginal Law; Prison Law and Policy

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/efrat-arbel

Arcese, Peter

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Ecology, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Biology

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/peter-arcese

Armstrong, Jeannette

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Okanagan)
Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Indigenous philosophies; Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx literatures.

https://ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/jeannette-armstrong/

Arneil, Barbara

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Social trust and diversity, global citizenship and cosmopolitanism, the role of disability in political theory and domestic colonies

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/barbara-arneil/

Asselin, Edouard

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.; corrosion

http://mtrl.ubc.ca/faculty/edouard-asselin/

Atabaki, Nima

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Ventilation

https://mech.ubc.ca/nima-atabaki/

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