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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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Te Hiwi, Braden

FASS (Okanagan)
CCGS
Indigenous health

https://ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/braden-te-hiwi/

Tennant, Dwayne

Engineering (Okanagan)

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.

https://asia.ubc.ca/profile/sunera-thobani/

Thompson, John

FoS (Okanagan)
CMPS
applications to wildfire science and climate finance

https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/john-thompson/

Thrush, Coll

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

https://history.ubc.ca/profile/coll-thrush/

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

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/yves-tiberghien/

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

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/rob-tierney/

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

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/david-tindall/

Tobber, Lisa

Engineering (Okanagan)
disaster-resilient buildings, sustainable structures

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/lisa-tobber/

Todesco, Marco

FoS (Okanagan)
Biology (co-appointed by UBCV Botany)
sustainable crop development

https://todescolab.msl.ubc.ca/

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

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

Tosarkani, Babak Mohamadpour

Engineering (Okanagan)
circular economy, strategic sustainable development

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/babak-mohamadpour-tosarkani/

Trajano, Heather

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

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/heather-trajano/

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

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/martino-tran

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

https://oceans.ubc.ca/andrew-trites/

Tseng, Michelle

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

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/michelle-tseng

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.

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/qingshi-tu

Turin, Mark

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Assessing the impact of sustainable ecotourism in Tibet

https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/mark-turin/

Tyson, Rebecca

FoS (Okanagan)
CMPS
spatial ecology, mathematical models of ecological systems

https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/rebecca-tyson/

Uhl, Alexander

Engineering (Okanagan)
solar energy conversion

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/alexander-r-uhl/

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