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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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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Kirchen, Patrick

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Thermochemical energy conversion; understanding the impacts of engine operating parameters such as fuel type, injection strategies, and charge preparation on the fundamental combustion and emission formation processes

Kissoon, Niranjan

Medicine (Vancouver)
Pediatrics
Sepsis and critical care; Vice Chairman of the Council of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA); In 2013 the World Sepsis Declaration was released with a mandate to place sepsis on the global development agenda

Klein, Bern

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Technology and innovation for improved energy efficiency and reduced environmental footprint in mining.

Klein, Naomi

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
how the climate emergency can and must act as a catalyst for this kind of bold, justice-based transformation in our bio-region and beyond, with particular attention to the intersections between climate justice and Indigenous land rights; the gendered and racialized labour of care; and the rights of migrants.

Klein, Peter

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
Global journalism; under-covered issues around the world

Klinkenberg, Brian

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
endangered species (plants), conservation biology, health geography, uncertainty

Klironomos, John

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Biology
Community ecology; soil ecology; plant ecology; microbial ecology; restoration ecology; invasion biology; global change biology; determinants of plant and microbial community structure; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Knox, Sara

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Exchange of carbon, water and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere; how land atmosphere exchanges of greenhouse gas fluxes respond to a changing climate and disturbances; how we can modify land management practices for climate change mitigation and adaptation; how ecosystem responses to global change can feedback to slow or accelerate future climate change; combine micrometeorological measurements with remote sensing and modelling to understand soil-plant-atmosphere interactions across a range of spatial and temporal scales;

Ko, Frank

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Materials Engineering
Nanofibre Technology, Biomaterials/Surgical Implants , Textile Structural Composites , Natural Fibres

Koehle, Michael

Education (Vancouver)
School of Kinesiology
The interaction between exercise and environmental pollution

Koehoorn, Mieke

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Occupational epidemiology, current and emerging issues in occupational health, surveillance of occupational injury/disease, evaluation of workers’ compensation policies.

Kong, Hoi

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change

Konijnendijk, Cecil

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Design and Planning of Space, Landscape and Environmental Organization, Urban and Rural Planning Policies; urban forestry, green infrastructure planning, green space governance, urban ecosystem services, people-nature relationships

Koppes, Michele

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions

Kozak, Robert

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Sustainable business management practices and issues and providing solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products and the emerging conservation economy

Kremen, Claire

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
How to reconcile biodiversity conservation with agricultural production using field, lab, and modeling studies on a variety of taxonomic groups. Current research questions in her lab include: How do different forms of agricultural land management influence long-term persistence of wildlife populations by promoting or curtailing dispersal movements and population connectivity? Specifically, can diversified, agroecological farming systems promote species dispersal and survival? How do different types of farming systems affect ecosystem services, yields, profitability, sustainability and livelihoods?

Krzic, Maja

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
Soil science, Soil science education, Integration of multimedia and soil science

Kunz, Nadja

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Works at the interface of research and practice to resolve private sector water challenges, with a focus on the mining and resources sector

Lam, Frank

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Engineering, wood products

Lau, Anthony

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Environmental engineering, waste-to-resource recycling, composting, odor control, biohydrogen energy

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