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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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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Chan, Laurie
Email: lchan@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~lchan
Prof. Chan’s work involves both basic and applied research in environmental toxicology and nutrition toxicology. He has conducted extensive studies on the risk and benefits of the consumption of traditional food and impacts of environmental changes on food security. Prof. Chan also serves as an advisor for numerous national and international governments and organizations and Aboriginal communities on environmental health issues
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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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Dawson, Russ
Email: dawsonr@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~dawsonr
Russ is an avian ecologist whose interests include determining the important proximate and ultimate factors influencing reproductive effort and success in birds. Specific areas of interest include mate choice, sexual selection, parasitology, and the mediating role that variation in environmental conditions has for the evolution of life-history traits. He holds a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan.
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Egger, Keith
Email: egger@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~egger
Keith, who obtained his PhD from the University of Victoria, uses molecular approaches to study microbial ecology, biodiversity and phylogeny. His research is focused on the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, particularly mycorrhizal fungi and microbes involved in nitrogen cycling. He has research projects underway on impacts of fire on mycorrhizal communities in boreal forest and on impacts of global warming on microbial communities in the arctic.
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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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Gillingham, Mike
Email: michael@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~michael
Dr. Gillingham has broad interests in population and wildlife ecology, modeling, plant-herbivore interactions, and behavioural ecology. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia.
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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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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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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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Lindgren, Staffan
Email: lindgren@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~lindgren
Dr Lindgren's area of interest is forest insect ecology and management. His current research activities involve forest insects and their role or impact on stand or landscape level processes, biodiversity, and host selection mechanisms.
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Massicotte, Hugues
Email: hugues@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/forestry/Hugues/
Dr Massicotte's research interests include the structure and biodiversity of mycorrhizae, tree and rhizosphere biology, and forest mycology. He has published extensively in a number of international scientific journals.
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McGill, Bill
Email: mcgill@unbc.ca
Biogeochemical cycling with an emphasis on C and N sequestration in or bioavailability to microbes within terrestrial ecosystems, and exchange of C and N between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Tools and practical applications include, simulation modeling of C and N dynamics, resource recovery from by-products, land remediation, soil conservation, and greenhouse gas mitigation. Recent work has focused on hydrocarbon-induced soil hydrophobicity and transformations of xenobiotics in soil on one hand and modeling of trace gas emissions from soils on the other.
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Menounos, Brian
Email: menounos@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~menounos
rian's research is aimed at understanding past and present climate change in western Canada. He specializes in using annually-laminated lake sediments to reconstruct long-term patterns of hydro-climatic variability from mountain watersheds. He research interests also include production and mobility of fine-grained sediments in mountain systems and surface hydrologic processes. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2003
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Murphy, Michael
Email: murphym@unbc.ca
Dr. Murphy's research addresses the moral and legal foundations of indigenous self-determination, particularly in relation to the fundamental tenets of democratic theory. Michael investigates new and emerging means of realizing indigenous self-determination in practice, and the implications of different strategies of self-determination for the well-being of indigenous communities.
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Nolin, Catherine
Email: nolin@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/nolin/
Dr. Nolin's current research project explores domestic and international influences shaping the migration and settlement of Central American refugees and immigrants in Canada as well as the maintenance of ties with their countries of origin. Other research interests include transnational migration, Guatemala, migrant insecurity on the Guatemala-Mexico border, immigrant and refugee experiences in British Columbia, social justice and gender issues. Dr. Nolin earned her PhD from Queen's University.
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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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Otter, Ken
Email: otterk@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~otterk
Ken's research addresses how habitat disturbance affects both reproductive and communication behaviour in forest birds. Using a combination of ecological, genetic and behavioural techniques, he and his students are interested in the impact of habitat on signal reliability, mating strategies and ultimatly reproductive output of forest generalist birds occupying postdisturbance landscapes. Ken received his PhD from Queen's University.
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Parker, Katherine
Email: parker@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/forestry/parker.html
Dr. Parker's research interests include bioenergetic strategies of wildlife and the trade-off decisions for survival, plant-herbivore interactions, and the contribution of individual animal requirements within large-scale ecosystem processes.
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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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Seidel, Andrew
Email: seidel@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/planning/faculty.html
Andrew's research interests include the creation of sustainable environments at personal and community levels. Dr. Seidel has recently completed the book ""Social Effects of the Building Environment.” Andrew is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.
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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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Sui, Jueyi
Email: sui@unbc.ca
Dr. Sui’s main research interests lie in water resources and environmental engineering. Jeuyi has expertise in cold region hydraulics and hydrology (river ice hydraulics and snow hydrology) and fluvial hydraulics.
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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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Thring, Ron
Email: thring@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/chemistry/faculty/thring.html
Dr. Thring's research interests include: - Chemicals, fuels and biosolids from natural resources - Reaction engineering principles and catalysis applied to pulp and paper, polymer, oil and gas processes - Plastics and rubber characterization and processing - Environmental engineering (soil remediation, green house gases control, waste & wastewater treatment) - Value-added processing and product development - Mass transfer with chemical reaction - Mixing of Floating Solids - Biodegradable Materials (production, characterization and applications).
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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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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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