Updated Dec 2022
Faculty Office # Email Phone Research area
| John Braun | SCI 388 | john.braun@ubc.ca | 250-807-8032 | Computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education |
| Thu-Thuy Dang | FIP 354 | 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. |
| Sylvie Desjardins | SCI 385 | sylvie.desjardins@ubc.ca | 250-807-8767 | Mathematical modelling of population dynamics, species at risk, mark-recapture studies |
| Michael Deyholos | SCI 156 | michael.deyholos@ubc.ca | 250-807-8541 | Genetics and genomics of plants, especially in relation to pectin, cell walls, and fibers. |
| Alekandra Dulic | CCS171 | aleksandra.dulic@ubc.ca | 250-807-9771 | Intersection of Culture and Technology, Climate Change communication, gaming and interactive art. |
| Dan Durall | SCI 377 | daniel.durall@ubc.ca | 250-807-8759 | Disturbance and ectomycorrhizal fungi, below-ground carbon dynamics |
| Adam Ford | SCI 109 | adam.ford@ubc.ca | 250-807-9773 | Wildlife ecology and conservation; mammals; temperate forests, grasslands, and tropical savannas. |
| Greg Garrard | CCS 391 | greg.garrard@ubc.ca | 250-807-8479 | Ecocriticism, sustainability, environmental criticism and theory; critical animal studies; environmental education; literature and science |
| Robert Godin | FIP 341 | robert.godin@ubc.ca | 250-807-8438 | 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. |
| Miranda Hart | ASC 372 | miranda.hart@ubc.ca | 250-807-9398 | 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 |
| Laura Hooker | SCI 158 | laura.hooker@ubc.ca | 250-807-9551 | Aquatic ecology, saline lakes, conservation |
| Nancy Holmes | CCS323E | nancy.holmes@ubc.ca | 250-807-9369 | Creative writing & poetry |
| John Janmaat | ART231 | john.janmaat@ubc.ca | 250-807-8021 | Environmental and resource economics, particularly the economics of water resources |
| Melanie Jones | SCI 385 | melanie.jones@ubc.ca | 250-807-9553 | Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants, fire effects on mycorrhizae |
| John Klironomos | SCI 159 | john.klironomos@ubc.ca | 250-807-9254 | Community ecology; soil ecology; plant ecology; microbial ecology; determinants of plant and microbial community structure; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; microbe’s use to help restore degraded landscapes |
| Bob Lalonde | SCI 316 | robert.lalonde@ubc.ca | 250-807-8764 | Evolutionary ecology, population dynamics, consequences of information use |
| Karl Larsen (Thompson Rivers University) | klarsen@tru.ca | 250-828-5456 | Habitat use and movements of vertebrates, rattlesnake conservation | |
| Soheil Mahmoud | SCI 312 | soheil.mahmoud@ubc.ca | 250-807-8752 | Molecular, cellular, biochemical and environmental factors that regulate the quality and quantity of aromas and essential oils produced by herbal and medicinal plants; identification, cloning and characterization of structural and regulatory genes that are involved in the biosynthesis, inter- and intra-cellular trafficking, secretion and storage of monoterpenes in plants cells specialized for secondary metabolite production. |
| 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. |
| Louise Nelson | SCI 159 | louise.nelson@ubc.ca | 250-807-8756 | Soil microbiology; plant-microbe interactions; plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; biological control of fungal pathogens; detection of fungal pathogens using DNA macroarrays and microbial inoculants; development of microbial inoculants in agriculture and horticulture to improve plant growth, root development, and to suppress fungal pathogens pre- and post-harvest |
| Mike Pidwirny | SCI 376 | michael.pidwirny@ubc.ca | 250-807-8758 | GIS models of landscape change, species interactions in wetland plant communities, spatial patterns and community structure in vegetation, climate change impacts on biodiversity |
| Lael Parrott (BRAES Director) | SCI 307 | 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 | 250-807-9629 | 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 |
| Scott Reid | SCI 379 | scott.reid@ubc.ca | 250-807-8761 | Freshwater ecology, physiology of fish in response to environmental stressors |
| Michael Russello | SCI 381 | michael.russello@ubc.ca | 250-807-8762 | Ecological and conservation genetics, wildlife management |
| Rebecca Tyson | SCI 386 | rebecca.tyson@ubc.ca | 250-807-8766 | Mathematical modelling, population dynamics, dispersal, spatial processes |
| Ian Walker | FIP 339 | ian.walker@ubc.ca | 250-807-9559 | Environmental change; chironomid palaeoecology; quaternary palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology; dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems; aquatic insect ecology; and biomonitoring; use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change |
| John Wagner | ART 273 | john.wagner@ubc.ca | 250-807-8001 | Environmental anthropology, political ecology, water governance and rights, agriculture and food security, vernacular education and language revitalization, conservation and development, property rights |
| Adam Wei | SCI 309 | adam.wei@ubc.ca | 250-807-8750 | Sustainable forest management, forest hydrology, watershed models |