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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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)
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...
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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Cronk, Quentin

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology to study plant form

Currie, Dawn

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Girls’ school-based peer cultures, adolescent femininity, critical literacy for youth

Currie, Leanne

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
Health informatics, clinical decision support systems, clinical decision making, human computer interface and visual analytics.

Dahinten, Susan

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
Social determinants and processes of child development, identification, intervention and the prevention of developmental problems

Dahmen, Joe

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Technical methods and cultural effects of resource use at the scales of architecture and territory

Dake, Gregory

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
Creation, understanding and application of methods within organic synthesis; CREATE Sustainable Synthesis Industrial program (research programs that address challenges in waste generation, environmental compatibility, energy efficiency and alternative energy sources)

Daniels, Lori

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbance and climate variation on temperate forest dynamics using a combination of permanent research plots and historical reconstructions based on tree rings

Dauvergne, Peter

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Refugee law, Immigration law, citizenship law, Global governance and emerging powers, environmental politics

Davies, Hugh

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Human exposure to hazardous chemicals and physical agents in the workplace and community; silica exposure and control in construction workers; exposure to hazardous drugs in health care and veterinarian workers; “non-auditory” effects of noise, investigating the role of noise at home and work in cardiovascular diseases, adverse birth outcomes, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, and its impact on childhood learning;

Davies, Jonathan

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment.

Davis, Henry Thomas

Arts (Vancouver)
Linguistics
Critically endangered indigenous languages of BC

Davis, Wade

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Biological and cultural diversity and the forces that threaten both

Day, Susan

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Below-ground systems of urban forests and how they affect ecosystem service provision; contemporary challenges faced by cities in managing their urban forests; stormwater management as mediated by the below-ground system, soil carbon, managing urban soils during land development, and manufactured, blended and engineered soils; Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES®); sustainability standards for soils during site development; linking design and ecological processes to solve urban problems; challenges of the urban environment.

De Angelis, Franco

Arts (Vancouver)
Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Environment, urbanism, developmnet of societies, colonization

De Longis, Anita

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Social Determinants of Health

de Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Education for/about international development, Social accountability in local and global engagements, Global Citizenship Education

Dempsey, Jessica

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Environmental politics; political ecology; how biodiversity loss continues despite the proliferation of international, national and regional conservation laws, policies and advocacy efforts

Dick, Alexander

Arts (Vancouver)
English Language and Literatures
Literature and Economics; Literature and the Environment

Dipple, Gregory

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Carbon sequestration, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions

Dixon, David

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.; fixed-bed leaching; fundamentals of hydrometallurgical reactors

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