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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Lin, Li-Wen

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Corporate social responsibility

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/li-wen-lin

Lindsey, Charles

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Traffic congestion; Road pricing; Financing transportation infrastructure; Public transit; Advanced traveler information systems

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/robin-lindsey

Lister, Jane

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Governance; Sustainable Supply Chain Management

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/jane-lister

Liston, Mary

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Administrative law and public law, Legal Theory, law and literature, law and politics, immigration/refugee/citizenship law, Rule of law, Comparative public law

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/mary-liston

Liu, Jian

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
School of Engineering
Advanced nanofabrication; Nanomaterials and nanotechnology; Energy storage systems; Next-generation batteries

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/jian-liu/

Liu, Wenying

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Materials Engineering
Use of sea water in heap leaching, release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials, heap leach modelling

https://mtrl.ubc.ca/faculty/wenying-liu/

Lokman, Kees

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Design challenges related to water and food shortages; depleting energy resources; climate change; ongoing urbanization

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/kees-lokman

Loo, Tina

Arts (Vancouver)
History
Environmental history of Canada

https://history.ubc.ca/profile/tina-loo/

Lovato, Chris

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Health promotion, population health and program evaluation, impact of health programs and policies, particularly in the areas of cancer prevention and health services

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/chris-lovato/

Lovegrove, Gordon

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Civil Engineering
SMARTer Growth; Sustainable community planning & design; Sustainable Transport & Safety; Hydrail powered, zero-emission regional passenger & freight rail; Affordable housing & CoHousing

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/gordon-lovegrove/

Low, Maggie

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Indigenous-state relations, Indigenous community planning, Indigenous-led reconciliation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction; Environmentalism and climate change, public sector innovation labs

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/maggie-low

Lund, Adam

Medicine (Vancouver)
Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine, Mass Gathering Health, Mass Gathering Medicine. Health determinants, the public health and emergency response angles related to electronic dance music events, studying sports medicine, including endurance runs and triathlons, systems issues in terms of understanding the impacts on the host community when a mass gathering is held in a community.

https://emergency.med.ubc.ca/person/adam-lund/

MacDougall, Bruce

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Sexual Orientation and the Law

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/bruce-macdougall

Macfarlane, Allison

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Technical, social, and policy aspects of nuclear energy production and nuclear waste management and disposal as well as regulation, nuclear nonproliferation, and energy policy;

https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/allison-macfarlane/

MacLachlan, Mark

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
Developing new organic and inorganic materials with interesting properties that may find applications in electronics, photonics, catalysis, and other applications; Some of our projects are aimed a combating environmental problems or improving alternative energy applications, such as solar energy conversion and hydrogen fuel cells

https://www.chem.ubc.ca/mark-maclachlan

Madden, John

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
New and unusual electronic materials for application in solar cells, energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), printable electronics and as artificial muscle.

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/john-madden

Madiseh, Ali

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Mine-Mechanical Equipment, Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Conservation, Energy storage, Energy decarbonization

https://mining.ubc.ca/ali-g-madiseh/

Maldonado, Maite

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The role of trace metal availability in controlling the ecology and evolution of marine phytoplankton and bacteria; The role of the biota in controlling biogeochemical cycles of trace elements in the ocean ; Trace elements regulation of harmful algal blooms; 'biological carbon pump'; regulation of the global carbon cycle; GEOTRACES group

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

Mansfield, Shawn

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Tree biotechnology; Trees and the Environment; Remediation of anthropogenic contaminants: phosphorous, salt, heavy metals.

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/shawn-mansfield

Mansoor, Jaleh

Arts (Vancouver)
Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Painting in the context of Marshall Plan Italy, materialist aesthetic abstraction in both modern and contemporary art, bio-politics and theories of subsumption.

https://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/jaleh-mansoor/

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