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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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Honey-Roses, Jordi

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Environmental planning; water resource management; impact evaluation

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/jordi-honey-roses

Hoppmann, Christiane

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/christiane-hoppmann/

Hübner, Kurt

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Sustainability and innovation policies; politics and economics of European integration as well as on contradictions and complementarities of sustainability and international competitiveness

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/kurt-huebner/

Huddart Kennedy, Emily

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Human-environmental relationships; what motivates civic engagement in efforts to protect the environment?; how do pro-environmental practices reflect and reproduce social differences?; Household-level Sustainable Consumption. Alternative Food Initiatives. Gender, Politics and Social Class in Environmentalism.

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/emily-huddart-kennedy/

Hudson, Zachary

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
Development of new materials to address issues of sustainability in chemistry and materials science; . Projects will examine the synthesis of organic and organometallic materials directed towards applications in sensing, printed electronics, and efficient solid-state lighting.

https://www.chem.ubc.ca/zachary-hudson

Hunt, Brian

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Biological oceanographer; broad interests in the structure and function of pelagic marine ecosystems, and their response to climate forcing and anthropogenic impacts; plankton dynamics, the response of these lower trophic levels to bottom-up forcing by climatic and oceanographic conditions, and the implications of this response for mid-trophic levels, including forage and juvenile fish, as well as top predators; Antarctic, tropical South Pacific, New Zealand, Mediterranean, North Pacific and Arctic.

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

Hymel, Shelley

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Bullying, SEL Teacher Education, Social and Emotional Learning in Children and Youth

https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/person/shelley-hymel/

Ignace, Danielle

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
How global change (climate change, landscape disturbance, and non-native species invasions) impacts ecosystem function and Indigenous communities.

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/danielle-ignace/

Innes, John

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Plants and Forests, Climate Changes and Impacts; Forestry

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/john-innes

Irwin, Darren

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
How new species arise, how geographical variation within species is produced, and how behaviors evolve

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/darren-irwin

Irwin, Rita

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Action Research, Art Education Research, Community Research, Curriculum Studies Research, Teacher Research

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/rita-irwin/

Ivanochko, Tara

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Curriculum development in Environmental Science; Community Service Learning; Development of Sustainability Education in EOAS, Faculty of Science and UBC

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

James, Kedrick

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Adolescent Literacy, Arts Based Education, Canadian Poetry and Poetics, Critical Literacies & Critical Pedagogies, Data Visualization and Sonification, Digital Literacy, Digital Research Methods, Discourse Analysis, Eco-Poetics, Environmental Literacy, Language and Literacy Teacher Education, Language Assessment, Literary Studies, Multimodality, Online Learning, Orality and Literacy, Poetic Inquiry, Remix, Research Methodologies, Technology & Language Education

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/kedrick-james/

James, Susan

Education (Vancouver)
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Cultural Psychology & Psychotherapy, Immigrant Mental Health & Culture Specific Syndromes, Philosophical Psychology, Spirituality & Psychotherapy

https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/person/susan-james/

Janmaat, John

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Okanagan)
Economics, Philosophy and Political Science
Understanding the drivers of human choices that impact on and are impacted by natural systems, and identifying interventions that can move us individually and collectively to a more sustainable relationship with the non-human world. This includes the use of models that integrate biophysical and/or social processes with economic models of behaviour and analyzing data collected through surveys and related approaches.

https://epp.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/john-janmaat/

Jarus, Tal

Medicine (Vancouver)
Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Investigating barriers to full participation of diverse groups of people with disability; diversifying the health and human service professions; the transition into and out of university for students with disabilities

https://osot.ubc.ca/directory/tal-jarus/

Jassal, Rachhpal

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Measurements and modeling of movement of heat, water and greenhouse gases ( CO2, CH4 and N2O) in soil in relation to soil and environmental variables; effect of forest management on carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and net global warming potential; scope of plantation forestry and the sustainability of hybrid poplar in the Prairie provinces with respect to their C sequestration potential and water use.

https://biomet.landfood.ubc.ca/people/rachpal-jassal/

Jatskevich, Juri

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Power and energy systems, smart energy grids, power electronic systems and converter circuits, electrical machines and drives, controls, electromagnetic transients, computer modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel simulation

https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/Juri-Jatskevich

Jellinek, Mark

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Can climate change alter the tectonic style of terrestrial planets? How do undersea eruptions and black smoker vents influence the chemistry and biodiversity of the deep ocean? What is the climatic footprint of a super continental cycle? How has the formation and destruction of supercontinents influence the evolution of Earth's atmosphere, ocean and biosphere? How do volcanic eruptions drive climate variability on decadal to millennial time scales? How does climate variability affect volcanic eruptions?

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

Jetter, Reinhard

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Leaves, flowers, fruits and primary plant stems are covered with a waxy “skin” called the cuticle. The surface of the cuticle forms the interface between plants and their environment, and is therefore essential for plant survival and performance. The research in my lab aims at providing basic knowledge that will enable us to: better protect crop plants against adverse conditions, especially against stressful environments created by climate change by working towards more drought-tolerant crop lines; engineer novel chemical structures that are analogous to those on plant leaves, to improve the surface properties of artificial materials; for example, plant-like wax coatings can protect building materials against adverse climatic conditions, and they can make medical materials more compatible with human tissues; bio-engineer algae and higher plants as renewable sources of new chemical commodities; for example, our research on the biosynthesis of wax alkanes is fundamental for future processing of second-generation biofuels derived from lipid metabolism.

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/reinhard-jetter

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