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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Turin, Mark

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

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

Tyson, Rebecca

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
Mathematical biology and spatial ecology; mathematical models of ecological systems; the development and analysis of mathematical and computational models; cyclic predator-prey populations.

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

Uhl, Alexander

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
School of Engineering
Solar energy conversion; Photovoltaics; Solar fuels; Thin film semiconductors

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

Valley, Will

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Sustainable Food Systems Education; Systems Thinking and Cognitive Psychology; School Food and Nutrition Education + K-12 School Food Systems; Community-Engaged Scholarship; Urban Agriculture

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/will-valley/

van den Bosch , Matilda

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
how environmental exposures, for example urban green and blue spaces, can influence human health with a recent focus on childhood health and development. The policy goal is to contribute to evidence-based development of healthier cities in a changing climate, with sustainable solutions for the health of humans and natural environments. regulating urban ecosystem services, such as heat reduction and consequential reduction in heat related morbidity and mortality, as well as cultural services from urban nature, involving for example increased physical activity and stress recovery in relation to preventing several non-communicable diseases

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/matilda-van-den-bosch

Van Waerbeke, Ludovic

Science (Vancouver)
Physics and Astronomy
Cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, early universe, inflation, structure formation.

https://phas.ubc.ca/users/ludovic-van-waerbeke

VanWynsberghe, Rob

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Citizenship and democracy, Social justice, Sustainability; Environmental Education

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/robert-vanwynsberghe/

Varcoe, Colleen

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
How the inequities of ethnicity, class, place and ability are central to violence against women, enhancing practice and policy in the context of violence and inequity

https://nursing.ubc.ca/our-people/colleen-varcoe

Veenstra, Gerry

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Social Determinants of Health, racial health inequalities, social class and health, intersectionality and health

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/gerry-veenstra/

Vercammen, Jim

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Agri-food markets, agri-environmental contracts, agri-risk and insurance, commodity futures markets, carbon markets

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/jim-vercammen/

Vertinsky, Ilan

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Natural resource economics, forest policy

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/ilan-vertinsky

Vertinsky, Patricia

Education (Vancouver)
School of Kinesiology
Social and cultural history of the body, gender relations, social history of women and health, health education, promotion and policy, Social and cultural history of sport and physical activity, gender, race, aging and disability, modern olympics

https://kin.educ.ubc.ca/person/patricia-vertinsky/

Villagomez, Erick

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Human settlements at all scales; Metro Vancouver’s public realm and urban landscape; urban development; ‘green’ urban design processes, plans, codes, standards, guidelines and prototypes.

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/erick-villagomez

Vincent, Amanda

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Pressing ocean concerns; conservation action to improve the status of marine species and habitats; biological and social research, empowering local communities, establishing marine protected areas, managing small-scale fisheries, restructuring international trade, promoting integrated policy, and advancing environmental understanding

https://oceans.ubc.ca/amanda-vincent/

von Bergmann, HsingChi

Dentistry (Vancouver)
Oral Health Sciences
Ethics and Health

https://www.dentistry.ubc.ca/faculty-profiles/u-z/hsingchi-von-bergmann/

Von Keyserlingk, Marina

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Animal welfare; care and housing for dairy cows and calves; farm animal care; animal behavior, housing and management and how these contribute to animal health and welfare of dairy cattle.

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/marina-von-keyserlingk/

Wagner, John

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Okanagan)
Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Environmental anthropology; political ecology; water, food security and food sovereignty; local ecological knowledge; conservation and development; language documentation; Okanagan Valley; Columbia River Basin; Papua New Guinea.

http://ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/faculty/wagner.html

Walker, Kristen

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
urban wildlife; identifying humane deterrents systems and reducing coyote conflicts for urban coyotes; UBC Farm Biodiversity Monitoring project assessing the diversity of vertebrates through the use of remote trail cameras

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/kristen-walker/

Walter, Pierre

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Environmental education, literacy, gender and development, Sustainability

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/pierre-walter/

Wang, Guangyu

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Business management, climate change, conservation, forest management, forest policy, land-use change

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/guangyu-wang

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