Natural environment sciences

This class comprises research and experimental development in natural environment sciences.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Indigenous peoples environmental knowledge
Biodiversity
Environmental impact assessment
Natural (biophysical) environment management
Natural environment sustainability studies
Ecological restoration (except bioremediation)
Natural resource management
Wildlife and habitat management
Quantitative methods for environmental sciences
Ecotoxicology
Natural environment sciences, n.e.c.
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Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters in Natural environment sciences

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Graduate Degree Programs in Natural environment sciences

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

The Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (亚洲天堂) is a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment...

Master of Arts in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (MA)

The Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (亚洲天堂) is a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment...

Master of Land and Water Systems (MLWS)

Land and water are essential resources required to sustain human needs, including food security, maintenance of environmental goods and services, and all forms of useable energy. Managing land and water as an integrated system provides a framework to aid society to achieve the goals of an improved...

Master of Science in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (MSc)

The Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (亚洲天堂) is a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment...
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亚洲天堂 Researchers conducting research in Natural environment sciences

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Atleo, Tara

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous economics; Indigenous peoples environmental knowledge; Sustainability management; Sustainable development and policy; Sustainability Management; Communities and Indigenous Knowledge; Stewardship Economics

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Beck, Sara

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Water quality; Innovative water treatment solutions; Ultraviolet disinfection mechanisms; Applications of UV LEDs (light emitting diodes); Water disinfection; Water reuse; Applied environmental microbiology

Boedhihartono, Agni

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Other studies in human society, n.e.c.; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Natural resource management; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Forest management; Land-use Change; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Arts and Conservaion; Landstewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Arts for Conservation; Visual anthropology; Forests and Societies

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Chan, Kai

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science

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Eskelson, Bianca

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural resource management; Forest Biometrics; Forest Modelling; Disturbance Effects; Management Effects; Climate Effects

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Farrugia Drakard, Veronica

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Phycology (including marine grasses); benthic ecology; Phycology; eco-engineering; kelp physiology

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Giang, Amanda

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric sciences; Mechanical engineering; Natural environment sciences; Atmospheric Pollutants; Chemical Pollutants; Climate Changes and Impacts; Public Policies; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection

Gulati, Sumeet

Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Agricultural economics; Wildlife and habitat management; Ecological policy; Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict; Economics of Urban Transportation; Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes; Effectiveness of Environmental Policy; International Trade and its Effect on the Environment; Political Economy of Environmental and Trade Policy

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Hunt, Brian

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biological oceanography; Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Ecological impacts of climate change; Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); marine food webs; ecosystem oceanography; plankton dynamics; open ocean; Coastal Ecosystems; climate change impacts on the ocean; salmon ecology; food web nutrition; microplastics; stable isotopes; forage fish; zooplankton; Urban oceans; Thiamine defficiency; Stormwater

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Johnson, Mark

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Geology; Natural environment sciences; Agriculture; Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Climate Changes and Impacts; data science; Ecohydrology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Fresh Water; Ground Water and Water Tables; Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs; Land and Soil; land use; Running Water Hydrosystem; Water and Sustainability

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Kremen, Claire

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Zoology; agroecological farming systems; Reconciliation of agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation; sustainable landscapes

Kumar, Gaurav

Faculty of Forestry

Postdoctoral Fellow

Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Transport economics; Operations and supply chain management; Inventory and distribution logistics; Natural resource management; Operations Research; Decision Analytics; Logistics & Supply chain management; Freight Transportation

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Lerner, Jackie

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Environmental impact assessment; Land use and environmental planning; cumulative effects assessment; gender-based analysis

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Moore, Alex

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Department of Botany, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Plant-animal interactions; Global change biology; Ecological restoration (except bioremediation); Applied community and ecosystem ecology; impact of predator-prey interactions on the health and functioning of coastal wetland ecosystems; role of cultural values and knowledge in ecosystem restoration conservation; Global change impacts on coastal environments

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Orsi, Anais

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric measurement techniques; Physics of snow and ice; Cryosphere processes, n.e.c.; Isotope geochemistry; Geochronology; Environmental geochemistry; Quantitative methods for environmental sciences; Earth system sciences; Climate change impacts and adaptation; climate change; Polar climate; Data analysis, inverse modeling; Paleoclimate

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Pratap-Singh, Anubhav

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization

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Ramankutty, Navin

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Agriculture; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate impacts; Environment and Society; Global food security; Land use change; Sustainable agriculture

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Vincent, Amanda

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Natural environment sustainability studies; Natural resource management; Wildlife and habitat management

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Zhao, Jiaying

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Psychology and cognitive sciences
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Student & Alumni Stories in Natural environment sciences

Jerry Achar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Analyzing uncertainty in the application of computational in silico methods for chemical risk assessment

Natasha Klasios

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Investigating the ecological impacts of microplastics and temperature warming in aquatic ecosystems

Anna Santo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Inclusive public consultation about large predator recovery in the North Cascades Ecosystem

Pablo Gonzalez Moctezuma

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Small farms and their role in land use transitions in Mexico

Atlanta-Marinna Grant

Student

Master of Arts in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (MA)

From food 'waste' to food 'cycle: biocultural heritage and the sharing of oral histories

Jessica Koski

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Implementation of Indigenous rights to lands & resources

Rowenna Gryba

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Bridging Indigenous Knowledge and western science to better understand animal behaviour and habitat use

Gracie Crafts

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

Cultural fire impact on culturally-significant plants and increasing biodiversity at Vaseux Lake, BC

Melanie Mackay

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD)

Critical elements in the coalfields of British Columbia

Dane Pedersen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Seeing the forest through the trees: collaborative climate-informed forest governance in Quesnel, British Columbia

Miah Godek

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire resilience and Indigenous cultural burning in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Sharayu Jakhotiya

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, Policy, And Predators: Studying the impacts of policy, governments, and markets on the governance models of forest dwelling communities in Central India鈥檚 tiger reserves

Marie Boulinaud

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Blaming swidden cultivation in the Philippines: evidence, consequences and understandings for Indigenous Peoples

Ver贸nica Rela帽o-Ecija

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Oceans and Fisheries (PhD)

Socio-ecological management in San Antonio Marine Protected Area (MPA), Argentina

Sasha Tuttle

Student

Master of Science in Zoology (MSc)

The relationship between wild pollinator diversity and blueberry yield and quality within farmlands in Delta, BC

Rapichan Phurisamban

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Relationalities and River Flows: Toward a Socially-Equitable and Bioculturally-Conscious Environmental Flow Management

Dana Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes

Rubaiya Rumman

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD)

Wood fly ash-based self-healing concrete using encapsulated chemical agents

Valerie Zimmermann

Student

Master of Arts in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (MA)

Agricultural Sustainability and Climate Resilience in British Columbia

Alberto Campos

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Rewilding the Brazilian Caatinga.

Christina Howard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Climate sensitive growth and suitability modeling of Qu茅bec tree species

Charlotte Milne

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Finding best practices in Canadian flood mapping to decrease risk for all

Bulgan Batdorj

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Enhancing Mining Transparency and Accountability through Natural Language Processing

Erin Ryan

Alumni

Master of Science in Applied Animal Biology (MSc)

Non-target interactions and humane evaluation of a captive bolt trap on commensal rodents

Erin Tattersall

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Towards Indigenous sovereignty in collaborative wildlife monitoring in northern Canada

Gopal Khanal

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Communities, carnivores and conservation: Understanding socio-ecological interactions among wildlife and livestock herders in Nepal
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Program Specializations in Natural environment sciences

Land and Water Systems
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French Name
Sciences du milieu naturel
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le d茅veloppement exp茅rimental en sciences du milieu naturel.
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