Forestry

Dr. Isla Myers-Smith

Dr. Isla Myers-Smith

Professor

Arctic, climate change, tundra, boreal forest, alpine, treeline, Canadian North, plants, shrubs, ecology, biodiversity, phenology, Arctic greening, permafrost, ecological data science, remote sensing, drones, satellites

Dr. Sarah Dickson-Hoyle

Dr. Sarah Dickson-Hoyle

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Wildfire; fire ecology; ecosystem restoration; disaster recovery; Indigenous fire management

Dr. Yeling Zhu

Postdoctoral Fellow

sustainable material, wood fiber, biomass valorization, biomaterials, insulation material, environmentally friendly technology

Prof. Peter Arcese, MSc, PhD

Prof. Peter Arcese, MSc, PhD

Professor

FRBC Chair in Applied Conservation Biology

Conservation biology, spatial planning, birds, mammals, plants, small populations, cultural uses, evolution, ecology, wildlife ecology, invasive species, overabundant species, inbreeding, rapid evolution, climate change, habitat change,

Sally Aitken

Sally Aitken

Professor

Forest genetics, climate change, conservation, ecology, genomics, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Dr. Lori Daniels

Dr. Lori Daniels

Professor

Forest plants and trees, forest history, forest management, environmental protection and natural resource use, wildfire (wild fire), wildfires, sustainable development, forest fires

Anthony D.M. Glass, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Plant physiology, nutrient transport across plant membranes, regulation of nutrient transport, molecular biology of nutrient transport, hydroponics, plant nutrition, plant, soil relations

Dr. Scott G. Hinch

Dr. Scott G. Hinch

Professor

Director, Natural Resources Conservation Program

Salmon migrations, salmon ecology, salmon fisheries, fish conservation, land use impacts (e.g. forestry) on fish and habitat

Frank Lam

Frank Lam

Professor

Senior Chair Professor Wood Building Design and Construction

Timber engineering, structural use of wood products

Peter L. Marshall, PhD

Peter L. Marshall, PhD

Professor

Director of Asian Strategies

Forest inventory, sampling design, forestry education, forestry profession

Nicholas Coops, PhD

Nicholas Coops, PhD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing (I)

Optical remote sensing, LIDAR, computer visualization, biodiversity, climate change, forest mapping, biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Prof. William Mohn, PhD

Prof. William Mohn, PhD

Professor

microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,

Dr. John Richardson, PhD

Dr. John Richardson, PhD

Professor

water, endangered species, species at risk, freshwater, conservation, wildlife, ecology, populations, ecosystems, invertebrates,

Shawn Mansfield

Shawn Mansfield

Associate Professor

Plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics

Rob Kozak

Rob Kozak

Professor and Dean

Forest products marketing and management, value-added wood products, forest dependent communities, forests and poverty alleviation, sustainable development,

John Innes

John Innes

Professor

Forestry, forest management, forest certification, aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystems, forest management, forest policy, social impact, sustainability, drought, forest fires, wildfires, heat waves, people’s responses to heat waves, impact of heat waves on forests, adaptation of forests to climate change, responses of resorts (such as Whistler) to climate change, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Gordon Weetman

Professor Emeritus

BC forestry, forest management, silviculture

Robert Guy

Robert Guy

Professor; Editor-in-Chief for the Americas, TREES Structure and Function

Plant biology, plant physiology, tree physiology, trees, stable isotopes

Harry Nelson, PhD

Harry Nelson, PhD

Associate Professor

Forest economics, forest policy

Suzanne W. Simard

Suzanne W. Simard

Professor

Forestry, silviculture, soils, mycorrhizae, forest ecology