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MNRES - Faculty Supervisors
Arocena, Lito
Email: arocenaj@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~arocenaj
Lito's interests centre on geochemistry of natural processes in terrestrials environments such as cation balances in forest ecosystems, acid mine drainage and other industrial wastes, paleopedology and soil minerology and chemistry.
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Bogdanski, Bryan
Email: bogdans@unbc.ca
Bryan's research interests include forest economics, forest management, and forest business.
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Booth, Annie
Email: annie@unbc.ca
Annie received a doctorate in environmental ethics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters in environmental policy at York University. Her research interests included Environmental and Natural Resources Policy (Domestic and International); Environmental Philosophy and Ethics; Native American/First Nations Worldviews; Women and Environments; Sustainable Development and Communities; Community Based Resource Management; Environmental Education
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Burton, Philip
Email: pburton@nrcan.gc.ca
Dr. Burton is interested in seed ecology, plant competition, plant community organization and vegetation dynamics. His research has explored aspects of forest regeneration and restoration, silvicultural systems, stand development modelling, old-growth attributes, stand edge effects, and the ecology of understory shrubs. His current work explores the disturbance ecology of northern B.C.
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Connell, David
Email: connell@unbc.ca
WWW: www.unbc.ca/planning
Dr. Connell is interested in the 'pursuit of community,' with a particular focus upon 'intentional communities' (e.g., co-housing, eco-villages, and communal societies). David is currently researching the capacity of and potential for local food systems in central interior British Columbia. This includes the culture of food, food security, industry structure, and land use planning. His work draws upon the social theories of Niklas Luhmann.
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Coxson, Darwyn
Email: darwyn@unbc.ca
WWW: http://wetbelt.unbc.ca/biography-coxson.htm
Dr. Coxson is a Professor in the Ecosystem Science and Management program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Coxson has been actively involved at UNBC since its inception, previously holding positions on the UNBC Senate, Board of Governors, and Faculty Association. His research program examines the role of non-vascular plants, such as lichens and mosses, in the ecosystem function of wet-temperate rainforests. Recent work includes comparative studies between rainforests in British Columbia and New Zealand.
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Curry, John
Email: curryj@unbc.ca
Dr. John Curry holds a PhD from the School of Community and Regional Planning (UBC), and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Planning Institute of British Columbia. He is interested in sustainable communities; more specifically, the physical planning of communities in a northern context, the restructuring of community economies to incorporate concepts of sustainability, and the institutional structures that impede change towards sustainability.
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Fondahl, Gail
Email: fondahlg@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/fondahl/
Dr. Fondahl¹s research focuses on cultural and legal geographies of indigenous land rights and claims, and land-based traditional activities. She has worked extensively in the Russian North on these topics. Gail also is interested in cultural, legal and historical geographies of First Nations in northern British Columbia.
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Fredeen, Art
Email: fredeena@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~fredeena/
Dr. Fredeen is a forest ecophysiologist. Primary research interests include the measurement of CO2 fluxes into and out of forests, logged areas and pastures in central British Columbia using Bowen Ratio and Eddy Covariance approaches. Other research interests include ecophysiology of mixedwood and interior cedar/hemlock forests, and the spiral phyllotaxis of lodgepole pine.
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Garcia, Oscar
Email: garcia@unbc.ca
WWW: http://forestgrowth.unbc.ca
Dr. Garcia is the West Fraser Endowed Chair in Forest Growth and Yield. Oscar’s research addresses ""Quantitative forestry"", including growth modeling, biometrics, mensuration, harvest scheduling, decision support systems.
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Green, Scott
Email: greens@unbc.ca
r. Green is a forest ecologist with a background in tree physiology. His research activities focus on tree/ecosystem adaptive responses to environmental variation. He has a particular interest in the responses of northern and high-elevation forests to climate change
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Halseth, Greg
Email: halseth@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/halseth/
Greg Halseth is the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies at UNBC. He has research interests in social geography, community economic development, and community change and conflict. His current research focuses on household and community strategies for coping with economic change in BC's resource-based towns.
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Hartley, Ian
Email: hartley@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~hartley
Dr. Hartley's research interest is in wood quality (ultra-structure and anatomy) and wood physics (wood-water interactions, diffusion, sorption, lumber drying and NMR) pertaining to forest products issues for Northern British Columbia. He has a keen interest in examining wood properties based on wood characteristics and how it pertains to processing issues.
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Hawkins, Chris
Email: hawkinsc@unbc.ca
WWW: http://mixedwood.unbc.ca/
Chris' general research interests are forest productivity, ecology, silviculture and management. Topics he is currently investigating include management of mixedwoods, economic impacts of silviculture decisions, and the genecology of paper birch and trembling aspen.
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Helle, Steve
Email: helle@unbc.ca
Steve’s primary research interests include the production of bioenergy and biofuels from forest industry by-products, with an emphasis on the optimization of fermentation processes. Other research interests are waste and wastewater treatment, including biological, physical and chemical treatment processes.
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Jackson, Peter
Email: peterj@unbc.ca
WWW: http://nimbus.unbc.ca/
Dr. Jackson is a mesoscale meteorologist whose research mostly concerns wind in complex terrain (i.e. in mountains and along coastlines) and environmental applications including dispersion of atmospheric pollutants and insects in those environments. In pursuing this theme, he and his research group use both in-situ (from surface-based weather stations) and remote (from a phased array doppler sodar system) observations, as well as mesoscale numerical atmospheric models (RAMS and MC2). These models are run on our 28 processor SGI Origin 3400.
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Johnson, Chris
Email: johnsoch@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~johnsoch
Dr. Johnson's research integrates the disciplines of wildlife, landscape, and conservation ecology to plan for and mitigate the influences of human developments on the environment. Typically working at broad spatial scales using GIS, remotely sensed data, and advanced statistical models, Chris also has an appreciation for field investigations and multiscale phenomena. Current research themes include cumulative impacts of resource development on Arctic wildlife, assessment of species-distribution models, and community-based conservation monitoring and 0lanning.
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Lewis, Kathy
Email: lewis@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~lewis
Dr. Lewis is a forest pathologist/microbial ecologist with research interests in the role of pathogenic fungi in natural ecosystem processes, and the long term effects of forest practices on forest health. In particular Kathy studies the relationship between biotic disturbance agents and stand dynamics, and the population genetics of forest pathogens as influenced by forest management practices.
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Maher, Patrick
Email: maherp@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/ortm/rrt_faculty/pat_maher/index.html
Through his study, teaching and travel in the Arctic and Antarctic, Pat has developed a strong research interest in the recreation and tourism that occurs in these geographical regions. Specifically he is interested in expeditionary-type, extended or remote/field-based travel and the meanings associated with such experiences. As well, Pat's interests are in outdoor and experiential education, leadership, wilderness, and adventure tourism and ecotourism.
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Opio, Chris
Email: opio@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/forestry/opio.html
Dr. Opio's research interests include forest management and policy, silviculture, environmental aspects of harvesting systems, land reclamation, woodlot management, tropical forestry and agroforestry.
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Parkes, Margot
Email: parkesm@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/healthsciences/faculty.html
Dr. Parkes came to UNBC in October 2009 from UBC where she was with the Department of Family Practice and College of Health Disciplines. Her past work includes studying watersheds and health in New Zealand, Ecuador, and Hawaii and investigating how the management of droughts, floods, biodiversity, and contamination has influenced health. Dr. Parkes came to northern BC to examine the effect of changing ecosystems of the health and well-being of communities, with a focus on water as a common resource for livelihoods, food security, culture, and economies.
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Petticrew, Ellen
Email: ellen@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/petticrew/
Dr. Petticrew’s research interests involve fluxes to and in aquatic systems, at a variety of scales. Fluxes of sediment, nutrient and contaminants have been investigated in recent research including 1) the influence of forest harvesting on sediment yields to British Columbian lakes, 2) the transport and storage of fine sediments in highly productive fish bearing streams, 3) the role of organic matter in the morphology and settling characteristics of freshwater flocs and 4) restoration of a northern residential eutrophic lake.
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Sanborn, Paul
Email: sanborn@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~sanborn/
After 11 years as a regional soil scientist in the BC Ministry of Forests, Dr. Sanborn joined UNBC in 2002. His research program builds on established local field studies of site productivity, nutrient cycling, and soil rehabilitation, and is developing a new emphasis on the role of soils as a recorder of long-term environmental change in northwestern Canada.
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Shrimpton, Mark
Email: shrimptm@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~shrimptm/
Dr. Shrimpton earned his Phd from the University of British Columbia. He has interests in the physiological response of fish to environmental disturbance, particularly how physical changes in the environment affect endocrine, biochemical, physiological and molecular factors that regulate growth and development in fish.
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Shultis, John
Email: shultis@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/rrt/faculty.htm
Dr. Shultis' research interests focus on the historical and contemporary socio-cultural forces affecting protected areas, outdoor recreation, wilderness, interpretation and resource-based tourism. Examples of recent research include the impact of neoconservatism on protected area management, the impacts of technology of the wilderness experience, the role of the 'risk society' on outdoor recreation and resource-based tourism, and the effects of the recreational use of protected areas on individuals and society.
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Tang, Youmin
Email: ytang@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~ytang
Youmin’s research uses sophisticated numerical models and mathematical tools to predict seasonal climate and put confidence limits on the predictions – a significant new approach among researchers in this field. Previously, he has developed ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) prediction models with the knowledge that more accurate seasonal climate prediction is of vital importance to various sectors of the economy: agriculture, forest management, fisheries, tourism, and power generation.
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Wheate, Roger
Email: wheate@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/wheate/
Dr. Wheate's interests cover the application of remote sensing and GIS across the spectrum of NRES (Natural Resource and Environmental Studies) faculty areas. His main focus lies in the integration of the geomatic sciences, cartographic output, feature extraction and terrain visualisation; special interests include mountain cartography / and glacier mapping using remote sensing.
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Wilkening, Ken
Email: kew@unbc.ca
Dr. Wilkening’s research focuses on the science-policy interface of international environmental issues, especially in the Asia and Pacific region. He has worked on acid rain in Northeast Asia, Asian dust (desertification and long-range transport of dust in Asia), trans-Pacific air and marine pollution, and intercontinental transport of air pollutants. Other interests include East Asian environmental security, Asian environmental history, and the overall relationship between science, technology, and environmental change.
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Wilkerson, Orland
Email: wilkerso@unbc.ca
Dr. Wilkerson earned his PhD from the University of Victoria. His primary research interests include community sustainability, environmental auditing, information strategies, and the impacts of energy development. Other interests are community and environmental policy, and environmental thought.
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Wright, Pam
Email: pwright@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/rrt/
Dr. Wright's research focuses on conservation-based approaches to protected areas design, planning and management; the social and ecological impacts and benefits of tourism and recreation on wild spaces. Other research interests include the development of systems-based monitoring approaches for sustainable forest management.
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Young, Jane
Email: youngj@unbc.ca
Dr. Young has research interests in ethnobotany (particularly medicinal uses of plants), organic fertilizers and plant growth, and plant adaptation in aquatic ecosystems. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
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