Faculty Members

Updated Sep 2023

Faculty                                         Office #             Email                             Phone              Research area

Jen Baron SCI 306 jen.baron@ubc.ca Fire ecology; wildfire science; landscape ecology; plant community ecology; Indigenous fire stewardship; ecosystem restoration.
John Braun SCI 378 john.braun@ubc.ca 250-807-8032 Computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education
Thu-Thuy Dang SCI207 thuy.dang@ubc.ca 250-807-9468 Discovering new biosynthetic enzymes and pathways; generating specialized metabolites structural and functional diversities; re-constituting natural products metabolism in synthetic biology chassis.
Adam Ford (BRAES Institute Director) SCI 109 adam.ford@ubc.ca 250-807-9773 Wildlife ecology and conservation; mammals; temperate forests, grasslands, and tropical savannas.
Greg Garrard CCS 650 greg.garrard@ubc.ca Ecocriticism, sustainability, environmental criticism and theory; critical animal studies; environmental education; literature and science
Miranda Hart ASC 372 miranda.hart@ubc.ca Microbial ecology of soil microbes; the role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration
Karen Hodges SCI 382 karen.hodges@ubc.ca 250-807-8763 Fragmentation, conservation of peripheral populations, critical habitat designation, population cycles
John Janmaat ART255 john.janmaat@ubc.ca Environmental and resource economics, particularly the economics of water resources
Michael Noonan SCI 379 michael.noonan@ubc.ca Animal movement, conservation, encounter theory, evolutionary processes, macro-ecology, and statistical ecology.
Chase Mason SCI 385 chase.mason@ubc.ca Plant ecophysiology, plant-biotic interactions, plant secondary metabolism, genome-wide association mapping, functional trait evolution, crop biodiversity, crop-wild relatives, evolutionary ecology.
Susan Murch FIP 350 susan.murch@ubc.ca 250-807-9566 Plant chemistry and biotechnology; the identification, quantification, and metabolism of plant secondary metabolites, the impact of these phytochemicals on human health, and the development of technologies for mass-production of specific plant chemicals as medicines, natural health products, food additives, and functional foods.
Lael Parrott ASC401 lael.parrott@ubc.ca 250-807-8122 Ecological complexity, landscape science, social-ecological systems, sustainable resource management
Jason Pither ASC 367 jason.pither@ubc.ca Spatial ecology, community ecology and biodiversity; how changes in landscape structure and the environment affect biodiversity patterns within and among ecological communities; pattern investigation within a variety of taxa, including terrestrial plants, insects, and freshwater diatoms
Michael Russello FIP346 michael.russello@ubc.ca Ecological and conservation genetics, wildlife management
Rebecca Tyson SCI 386 rebecca.tyson@ubc.ca 250-807-8766 Mathematical modelling, population dynamics, dispersal, spatial processes
Adam Wei SCI 309 adam.wei@ubc.ca 250-807-8750 Sustainable forest management, forest hydrology, watershed models