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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Garrard, Greg

Creative and Critical Studies (Okanagan)
English and Cultural Studies
Literature and the environment; ecocriticism; human-animal studies; Anthropocene culture; cultural dimensions of environmental issues (e.g. pollution, climate change).

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/greg-garrard/

Gaston, Christopher

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Aboriginal / community development; aboriginal forestry; communities and livelihoods; economics; forest policy; sustainability

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/christopher-gaston

Gergel, Sarah

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Mapping and Quantifying Ecosystem Services; Social-ecological Landscapes and Resilience; Mapping & Monitoring with First Nations and LEK

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/sarah-gergel

Ghebremusse, Sara

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Legal frameworks that govern mining-led development in Sub-Saharan Africa, including the adoption of international norms and the emergence of new legal orders; mining governance; development and human rights; law and development; African legal studies; human rights

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/sara-ghebremusse

Giang, Amanda

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability | Mechanical Engineering
Atmospheric Pollutants; Climate Changes and Impacts; Chemical Pollutants; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Public Policies

http://ires.ubc.ca/person/amanda-giang/

Gill, Hartej

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Using research to bridge the gap between theory, practice, and social activism; identity, power, systemic oppression. colonialism, patriarchy and modernity etc

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/hartej-gill

Girling, Cynthia

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable urban design, the public realm, and tools for urban design; methods and tools of measured visualizations for public engagement in community planning and design

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/cynthia-girling

Gladwin, Derek

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Environmental and energy literacy; sustainability education; environmental humanities and arts-based education; food literacy; social and spatial justice.

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/derek-gladwin/

Glassheim, Eagle

Arts (Vancouver)
History
Environmental history

https://history.ubc.ca/profile/eagle-glassheim/

Glassman, Jim

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Third World Urbanization, Economic Geography

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/jim-glassman/

Gleason, Mona

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Social justice; age and size as categories of historical analysis, gender and sexuality, health and the body, race and nation

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/mona-gleason/

Godin, Robert

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Chemistry
Transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics of materials for solar energy conversion; photochemistry and photophysics; carbon-based photocatalytic materials; sustainable energy and material production.

https://chemistry.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/robert-godin/

Goh, Ernest

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable transportation. Enclosed narrow-track electric vehicles, with focus on: aerodynamics, ergonomics and practicality for commercialization.

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/seach-chyr-ernest-goh/

Golovin, Kevin

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Mechanical Engineering
Interfacial mechanics; Polymers; Textiles; Sustainability; Additive manufacturing; Coatings

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/kevin-golovin/

Goold, Benjamin

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Human Rights; rights and civil liberties of border crossers; social and political dimensions of privacy; the relationship between human rights and constitutional responsibilities; implications of trusted traveller programmes for human rights

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/benjamin-goold

Gordillo, Gaston

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Space and violence, affect, ruins and ruination, critical theory and continental philosophy, object-oriented ontologies, resistance to agribusiness, Latin America, Argentina, the Gran Chaco

https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/gaston-gordillo/

Graham, Sean

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Plant biodiversity with a focus on both evolutionary and molecular approaches

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/sean-graham

Grayston, Sue

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Climate change and soil C sequestration; Soil microbial community structure and function related to GHG emissions

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/sue-grayston

Green, David

Arts (Vancouver)
Vancouver School of Economics
Minimum wage; immigration; theories of justice (Rawls)

https://economics.ubc.ca/faculty-and-staff/david-green/

Green, Sheldon

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Building ventilation and filtration; optimal design of displacement ventilation systems and air handling equipment

https://mech.ubc.ca/sheldon-green/

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