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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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Sumaila, Rashid

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries

Sundberg, Juanita

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Feminist political ecology; nature conservation, border security, and militarization; environmental dimensions of United States’ border security policies in the United States-Mexico borderlands, with a specific focus on protected areas like national wildlife refuges.

Sunderland, Terry

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Biodiversity, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystem services, forest management, land-use change, landscape ecology, social science, sustainability

Sundstrom, Lisa

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Democratization, human rights, gender politics, the politics of international democracy assistance, and NGO activism in both domestic and transnational politics; comparative climate policy

Suttle, Curtis

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, Biological Oceanography, Marine Microbiology, Environmental Virology, bacteriophage, bacteria, viruses, environmental microbiology

Swei, Omar

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation.

Taghipour, Fariborz

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chemical and photochemical systems with application to energy and environmental engineering; target is to create sustainable ways of producing solar fuels by utilizing earth-abundant materials and cost-effective processes; water purification

Tansey, James

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading, Social determinants of health, GM crops and animals

Taylor, Rick

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
Biodiversity, speciation, fishes, conservation, biogeography

Thobani, Sunera

Arts (Vancouver)
Asian Studies
critical race, postcolonial, transnational and feminist theory; South Asian women’s, gender and sexuality studies; representations of Islam and Muslims in South Asian and Western media; South Asian Diasporic Films; Muslim Women, Islamophobia and the war on terror; intersectionality, social movements and critical social theory; colonialism, indigeneity and racial violence; and globalization, citizenship and migration.

Thrush, Coll

Arts (Vancouver)
History
Northwest Coast and Pacific, environmental, place-based histories

Tiberghien, Yves

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Global governance, global climate change politics, and on the governance of agricultural biotechnology in China and Japan; trade-offs between economic policy goals and public goods such as biodiversity protection, transparency in food policy, and climate change issues

Tierney, Robert

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Literacy Learning, Longitudinal Studies of Literacy Acquisition; Multiple Literacies; Teacher Professionalism; Politics and role of Assessment in Teaching, Learning, Society

Tindall, David

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Environmental movement, social movements, environmental protest, social protest, social networks, social aspects of climate change, Aboriginal protest about natural resources and environmental issues, environmental politics, environmental attitudes, environmental values, opinion about the environment, protest about pipelines, protest about oil sands, protest about tar sands, wilderness, wilderness preservation, use of social media in social protest, use of social media in social movements, social media and social networks, social aspects of forestry, climate change policy, news media, social psychology of environmental issues, Envionmental sociology, social research methods, aboriginal forestry, social science

Tortell, Philippe

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Marine biogeochemical cycles; understanding the biological, chemical and physical factors regulating oceanic primary productivity and the concentration of climate active gases including carbon dioxide (CO2), dimethylsulfide (DMS), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O); GEOTRACES group

Trajano, Heather

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomass Conversion; Biorefinery; large-scale biorefineries

Tran, Martino

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Predictive modelling and simulation of urban infrastructure and technology to inform policy and investment strategies with positive societal and sustainability outcomes; smart energy; transport technologies

Trites, Andrew

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Seals, sea lions, whales and dolphins; ecology, nutrition, physiology, and animal behaviour; conservation of marine mammals

Tseng, Michelle

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Evolutionary and ecological processes underlying adaptation to changing environments

Tu, Qingshi

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Principal investigator of the Sustainable Bioeconomy Research Group which combines industrial ecology principles with computational modeling to promote the sustainable development of bioeconomy.

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