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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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Margulis, Matias

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Improve our knowledge of the global governance of food security; food insecurity; the renewed centrality of food security in global governance and policy, especially in the context of agricultural trade liberalization, large-scale land acquisitions (A.K.A. “land grabs”), international human rights agreements and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/matias-margulis/

Marker, Michael

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Ethnohistorical perspective on educational conditions for Indigenous people in Canada and the US, linking place with history; histories of residential schooling across the Canada-US border for Coast Salish people

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/michael-marker

Marshall, Peter

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Quantifying and forecasting stand and forest dynamics, particularly with respect to uneven-aged and/or mixed species (complex) stands; biometrics, forest measurements, modelling, sampling design, stand dynamics

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

Marti, Jose

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer modelling of response to disasters, Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulation (I2Sim) project, electric power, Energy systems

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/Jose-Marti

Martin, Kathy

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Conservation of birds in high elevation habitats; Nest Webs – cavity nesting bird community dynamics in natural and managed forests in relation to forest cutting regimes and natural disturbance events

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/kathy-martin

Martin, Tara

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Models, Conservation, Ecological Monitoring, Ecology, Land-use Change, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Planning, Modelling

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/tara-martin

Martin-Matthews, Anne

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Aging and lifecourse; health and society; health and social care services especially home and community care; intersections of formal and informal care, especially involving the nexus of the public and private spheres; transitional life events such as widowhood

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/anne-martin-matthews/

Martone, Patrick

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Algal physiology and climate change

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/patrick-martone

Masse, Louise

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Obesity prevention; Physical activity assessment; School policies & impact on children’s behaviours (e.g., physical activity and nutrition); Lifestyle behavioral modification interventions (e-Health)

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/louise-masse/

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 writings and postcolonial theory and places them in conversation with the philosophy of time, movement, and change in the work Henri Bergson.

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/renisa-mawani/

Mayer, Ulrich

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Geochemical evolution of low-temperature groundwater systems with a focus on groundwater contamination and remediation; groundwater contamination problems and remediation solutions;

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

McAllister, Murdoch

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Statistical methods for fisheries risk assessment, estimation, decision analysis and management strategy evaluation

https://oceans.ubc.ca/murdoch-mcallister/

McAusland, Carol

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Interactions between globalization and public good provision, impacts of trade liberalization on environmental politics, potential use of trade policy to stem damages from exotic species introductions and biological invasions Environmental impacts of international trade, implications of skilled labor migration for the global provision of public goods

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/carol-mcausland/

McDonald, Shirley

Creative and Critical Studies (Okanagan)
English and Cultural Studies
Shirley McDonald bases her teaching on her interests in composition theory and practice, Canadian literature and history, life writing, social justice, postcolonial studies, and environmental sustainability.

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/shirley-mcdonald/

McGrail, Kim

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Variations in health care services use across patients, providers and regions, and their relationship to population health; Aging and the use of health and social services; Personal, economic, and social factors that produce health at an individual and population level, and the role of the health care system in that process

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/kimberlyn-mcgrail/

McIntosh, Lawrence

Medicine (Vancouver)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Macromolecular structure and dynamics. NMR spectroscopy of biological systems. Eukaryotic gene regulation and signal transduction. Enzymatic degradation of cellulose for biofuels.

https://biochem.ubc.ca/person/lawrence-mcintosh/

McKee, William

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Planning and delivery of psychological and educational services to students with special needs.

https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/person/william-mckee/

McKellin, William

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Medical, linguistic and cultural anthropology; socio-linguistics and discourse analysis; clinical medical anthropology; genetics and society; international health; cognitive anthropology; kinship and social organization; Papua New Guinea; Canada

https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/william-mckellin/

McKendry, Ian

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Air pollution, Climatology

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/ian-mckendry/

McLeod, Chris

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
How institutional and economic structures across countries affect health and health inequalities over the working life course, using high quality comparable longitudinal data from representative economies to examine the relationship between employment and working conditions and worker health within and across countries.

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/christopher-mcleod/

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