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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Dobson, Teresa

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Digital literacy and digital culture, digital humanities, text visualization, literary engagement in multiple media, writing and multimodality, literary education.

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/teresa-dobson/

Donner, Simon

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Climate Changes and Impacts, Prediction and Climatic Modeling, Marine Environment; Climate change science, Climate policy, Science communication, Coastal Ecosystems

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/simon-donner/

Dowlatabadi, Hadi

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Energy Production, Economic Planning of Energy, Climate Changes and Impacts, Transportation Systems; The systematic study of systems at the interface of humans, nature, technology and policy

http://ires.ubc.ca/person/hadi-dowlatabadi/

Duff, David

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Environmental taxation, distributive justice

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/david-g-duff

Dulic , Aleksandra

Creative and Critical Studies (Okanagan)
Creative Studies
Visual art, new media, video, drawing 2D; media for social change; climate change; interactive art; experience design.

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/aleksandra-dulic/

Dummer, Trevor

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Health geography, environmental exposures, health inequalities, geographic information science, Environmental epidemiology and environment and health interactions, with specific emphasis on cancer etiology and cancer prevention

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/trevor-dummer/

Dunbar, Scott

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Development of advanced mining and mineral processing methods

https://mining.ubc.ca/scott-dunbar/

Dunford, William

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical power conversion, electric vehicles, alternative enery and sustainable development, DC systems with load and battery management., Clean Energy

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/william-dunford

Dunn, Elizabeth

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Happiness; how mobile technology can both support and undermine human well-being

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/elizabeth-dunn/

Early, Margaret

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Adolescent Issues; English as a Second Language; Language Education; Literacy; Multiple Literacies; PedagogyTeacher; ResearchWriting; and Reading

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/margaret-early/

Eaton, Brett

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Rivers and climate change

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/brett-eaton/

El-Kassaby, Yousry

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Genetics, genomics, tree breeding , biodiversity, conservation

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/yousry-el-kassaby

Elliott, Sinikka

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Family, social inequality, and social policy; intersecting inequalities;

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/sinikka-elliott/

Ellis, Naoko

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
CO2 capture and utilization, thermochemical conversion of biomass

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/naoko-ellis/

Ellis, Shona

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Sustainability teaching & learning; Biodiversity

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/shona-ellis

Eltis, Lindsay

Science (Vancouver)
Microbiology and Immunology
Bacterial catabolic enzymes and pathways responsible for the degradation of aromatic compounds and steroids; Lindsay’s research has important implications for the development of novel biocatalysts for more sustainable processes

http://www.microbiology.ubc.ca/research/labs/eltis/pi

Englezos, Peter

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
CO2 capture and storage, water treatment, Novel materials from forest bio-resources

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/peter-englezos/

Ervin, Ruth

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Systems Change, Prevention and Intervention Strategies in Special Education.

https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/person/ruth-ervin/

Eskelson, Bianca

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Biometrics, ecological monitoring, ecology, ecosystems, forest measurements, modelling, sampling design, stand dynamics

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/bianca-eskelson

Eskicioglu, Cigdem

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
School of Engineering
Wastewater and Sludge Treatment; Pretreatment Technologies for Enhanced Biomethane and Biohydrogen Production from Organic Waste; Side-stream Nutrient Removal; Fate and Transformation of Micropollutants during Biological Treatment Processes; Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Biological Wastewater/Sludge Treatment Processes; Waste Minimization and Resource Recovery

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/cigdem-eskicioglu/

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