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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Pakhomov, Evgeny

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Biological oceanographry; species ecology; ecosystem structure; variability and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change using stable isotopes, large-scale and retrospective analyses; land-sea interface

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

Parfrey, Laura

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Microbial ecology, microbial diversity, microbiome, protists

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/laura-wegener-parfrey

Parrott, Lael

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences
Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time; incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; regional-scale landscape modelling; social-ecological networks; agent and individual-based modelling approaches; landscape science and scenario building.

https://research.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/lael-parrott/

Patrick, David

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Emerging infectious diseases. Institution and evaluation of programs to control antimicrobial misuse and curb antibiotic resistance. Linking clinical, epidemiological and genomic sciences to explore etiology of idiopathic chronic diseases

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/david-patrick/

Pauly, Daniel

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
World fisheries, marine life, global catch, Management of fisheries, ecosystem modeling

https://oceans.ubc.ca/daniel-pauly/

Peck, Jamie

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Urban and regional political economy, restructuring, economic regulation and transformation, policy

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/jamie-peck/

Peleato, Nicolas

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Civil Engineering
Evaluation of drinking water treatment processes; Source water quality assessment; Integrated data analysis and machine learning pertaining to water quality

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/nicolas-peleato/

Pelletier, Nathan

Management (Okanagan)
Management
Sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

https://management.ok.ubc.ca/faculty/nathan-pelletier/

Perrin, Benjamin

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Victims of Crime, Human Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/benjamin-perrin

Peterson, Jenny

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Politics of international aid; the process of liberal peacebuilding and critiques thereof; conceptual and empirical deviations from the liberal model; agonism, resistance, hybridity and political space; diversity and innovation, both local and international, in peace/justice movements; international relations, comparative politics, humanitarian studies and peace studies.

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/jenny-peterson/

Phinney, Alison

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
Capacities of older people for successfully coping with the functional consequences of aging and disease. Family and community support for frail older people both within and outside the traditional health care system. Cognitive impairment due to a dementing illness.

https://nursing.ubc.ca/our-people/alison-phinney

Pinar, William

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Curriculum Studies Research; Gender; Curriculum theory; International studies

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/william-pinar/

Pitcher, Tony

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Evaluation of the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems with special emphasis on restoration ecology, development of a predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behavior impacts fisheries

https://oceans.ubc.ca/tony-pitcher/

Pither, Jason

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Biology
Biogeography; landscape ecology; biodiversity conservation; community ecology; paleoecology; biodiversity patterns in space and time.

https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/jason-pither/

Poole, David

Science (Vancouver)
Computer Science
Decision making for complex decisions. Projects have included preference elicitation for group decision making, forestry planning, and predicting landslides. The overall theme is to make decisions based on, rich ontologies, complex preferences and detailed (probabilistic relational) models.

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/david-poole

Pottinger, Rachel

Science (Vancouver)
Computer Science
Meta-data management, data integration systems, ARTIFACT

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/rachel-pottinger

Potvin, Gabriel

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bioprocessing, Industrial Microbiology, Microalgal Biotechnology, Sustainable Engineering, Interdisciplinary Education

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/gabriel-potvin/

Pratt, Geraldine

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Filipino women working in Canada as domestic workers on temporary work visas; issue of family separation and the long term marginalization of families sponsored by domestic workers after they gain permanent resident status in Canada. Temporary labour migration worldwide.

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/geraldine-pratt/

Prescott, Cindy

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Ecosystem restoration and soil reclamation; Effects of clearcutting and other silvicultural systems on N availability

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/cindy-prescott

Price, Richard

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
International Cooperation; international relations; Ethics and World Politics; International Relations Theory; Global Norms

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/richard-price/

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