Faculty

FRANCESCO BERNA

Professor, Archaeology

Origin of modern behaviour, archaeology of fire, ancient pyrotechnologies, use of space, site formation processes

DAVID BURLEY

Professor, Archaeology

South Pacific, Northwest North America, archaeological theory, South Pacific prehistory, ceramics, maritime adaptations, ethnohistory

HUGO CARDOSO

Department Chair and Professor, Archaeology

Co-director, Centre for Forensic Research

Human juvenile osteology, dental and skeletal age estimation, child health in archaeological populations, trauma and taphonomy of immature bone.

MARK COLLARD

Professor, Archaeology

Human and primate evolution, evolutionary archaeology, phylogenetics, hominin and non-human primate fossil record, body size estimation, material culture studies

CATHERINE D'ANDREA

Professor, Archaeology

Palaeoethnobotany, cereal domestication, traditional agricultural knowledge, ethnoarchaeology, early agriculture, early complex societies, African archaeology

BIRUTÉ M. F. GALDIKAS

Professor, Archaeology

Primate behavior, ecology, and evolution, with particular focus on orangutans. Other research interests involve tropical rain forest ecology and phenology.

CHRISTINA GIOVAS

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies

Associate Professor, Archaeology

Environmental archaeologist specializing in zooarchaeology

SABRINA HIGGINS

Assistant Professor, Archaeology and Humanities

Late Antique Egypt; Marian Studies; Early Christian Architecture; Religious Transformation; Sacred Landscapes; Greco-Roman Religions; Byzantine Art and Monastic Archaeology

ROSS JAMIESON

Associate Professor, Archaeology

Andean South America, colonialism, historical archaeology, archaeological theory, South Pacific prehistory, ceramics, maritime adaptations, ethnohistory

DANA LEPOFSKY

Professor, Archaeology

Palaeoethnobotany, human ecology, prehistoric and traditional resource management, Northwest Pacific, Oceania, complex hunter-gatherers, public outreach

DAVID MAXWELL

Senior Lecturer, Archaeology

Faunal analysis, particularly vertebrates; interaction of material culture and political history; Plains bison kill site population dynamic; coastal and island hunter-gatherers in southern California

ROBERT MUIR

Senior Lecturer, Archaeology

Zooarchaeology, quantitative methods, cultural resource management, field methods, British Columbia, American Southwest

RUDY REIMER

Associate Professor, Archaeology

Indigenous archaeology, BC archaeology, cultural resource management, lithic technology, materials science, geochemistry

MICHAEL RICHARDS

Professor, Archaeology

Evolution of human diets over time, especially the diets of Neanderthals and early modern humans, and the spread and adoption of agriculture in Eurasia

Adam Rorabaugh

Practioner Faculty and Director, Graduate Program in Heritage Resource management

Emergence of hereditary social inequality and modeling social learning in complex hunter-gathering-fishing societies. Adam works in the Salish Sea and Columbia Plateau in Washington State and British Columbia.

DENNIS SANDGATHE

Senior Lecturer, Archaeology

Stone tool technology, Palaeolithic Eurasia, nature of Middle Palaeolithic adaptations, role that fire played in Neandertal adaptations

CARA TREMAIN

Assistant professor, Archaeology

Museums, the antiquities market, looting, digital technologies for heritage, fakes and forgeries, Mesoamerica

JOHN R. WELCH

Director, Heritage Resource Management Program

Professor, Archaeology and Resource and Environmental Management

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management and Archaeology Sovereignty-driven research and Indigenous community collaborations in heritage stewardship and applied archaeology

DONGYA YANG

Professor, Archaeology

Human osteology, molecular archaeology, animal and plant ancient DNA, forensic anthropology

SHAWN CHARTRAND

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science 

Shawn's research focuses on how rivers form and co-evolve with landscapes. He has particular interest in mountain rivers and cold regions of the Arctic.

David Green

Interim director and professor, Environmental Science

Avian ecology, ecology and conservation biology.

Anna Hippmann

Lecturer, Environmental Science

Trace metal physiology in phyktoplankton. Plastic pollution in the ocean.

RUTH JOY

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science

Developing models that assess the relative impact of anthropogenic stressors on both marine and terrestrial species at risk.

KAREN E. KOHFELD

Director, Environmental Science

Professor, Resource and Environmental Managment

Climate change, earth system science, carbon cycling, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, ocean acidification, regional impacts of climate change

CHELSEA LITTLE

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science (Primary) and Resource and Environmental Management

Chelsea's research focuses on ecosystem functioning, community ecology and meta-ecosystem ecology.

BRENDAN MURPHY

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science

Fluvial geomorphology, watershed-scale sediment dynamics, post-wildfire environments, water security, climatic controls on landscape evolution, bedrock river erosion, weathering processes, landscape and population ecology, and resource management

JEREMY VENDITTI

Professor, Environmental Science

Fluvial Geomorphology and Sedimentology, River Dynamics, Physics of Sediment Transport

SHIV BALRAM

University Lecturer, Geography

Collaborative GIS, environmental decision making

NICK BLOMLEY

Department Chair and Professor, Geography

Land, property and the geography of rights, legal geography, urban

TRACY A. BRENNAND

Professor, Geography

Glacial geomorphology, glacial sedimentology, paleoglaciology, paleohydrology, environmental and climate change, planetary geomorphology

ROSEMARY-CLAIRE COLLARD

Associate Professor, Geography

Human geographer interested in broadening critical thought beyond a strictly human subject

VALORIE CROOKS

Professor, Geography

Health, primary health care, palliative care services and family medicine, informal family care giving, health-related social programs, socio-spatial negotiations of chronic illness

SUZANA DRAGICEVIC

Professor, Geography

Geographic information systems and science (GIS), modeling human-environment interactions as complex systems, urban informatics, geographic automata, agent-based modeling, geosimulations, artificial intelligence, soft computing, modeling land use and land cover change, spatial decision support systems.

MAY FARRALES

Assistant Professor, Geography 

Critical Indigenous Studies, critical race studies, feminist geographies, queer theory, and Black geographies

WILLIAM JESSE HAHM

Assistant Professor, Geography

Studies that integrate concepts from the fields of hydrology, geomorphology, and plant ecophysiology

NICK HEDLEY

Associate Professor, Geography

Visualization, 2D geovisualization, 3D visualization, geospatial interface research, natural hazards, ocean science, spatial cognition

TARA HOLLAND

Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science and Geography

climate change impacts and adaptation in natural resource sectors, human impacts on coastal environments, and forest fragmentation patterns in Canada

Leigh Joseph

Assistant professor, Geography

Indigenous geographies, cultural interrelationships between people, plants and place

PETER KELLER

Professor and Special Advisor to the Executive on Academic Planning

Resource management, mineral exploration and marine navigation support to preservation of indigenous knowledge, environmental and human wellness and health, community mapping and tourism planning

PAUL KINGSBURY

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies

Professor, Geography

Cultural geography, consumption, social theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and paranormal cultures

LANCE LESACK

Professor, Geography and Biological Sciences

Limnology, ecosystem science of large rivers, carbon and nutrient cycling in lakes, hydrology of lakes and river floodplains, biogeochemical mass fluxes to the ocean from small catchments through large rivers

BING LU

Assistant Professor, Geography

Remote Sensing of Environmental Change (ReSEC) Lab

Environmental Remote Sensing, Wetland and Grassland Ecosystems, Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics, Environmental Change, Remote Sensing Big Data

SHARON LUK

Associate Professor, Geography

Geographies of radicalization; race, gender and political-economic formations, race and modern thought

GEOFF MANN

Professor, Geography

Centre for Global Political Economy; Resources, natural resource labour and labour markets, comparative natural resource policy, macroeconomic policy and commodity production, race and gender

EUGENE McCANN

Professor, Geography

Urban, drug policy in relation to urban and regional built environments, urban public space and governance, urban and regional livability, quality of life and creativity

ANDREW PERKINS

Senior Lecturer, Geography

Physical geography; geography of natural hazards; earth systems

LEANNE RODERICK

Lecturer, Geography

Urban political economy, smart cities, technological innovation and inequality, critical urban theory

MARGARET SCHMIDT

Associate Professor, Geography

Soil science, digital soil mapping, predictive soil mapping and modelling, impact of forest management practices on soil properties and nutrient cycling, soil rehabilitation

NADINE SCHUURMAN

Professor, Geography

Health and environment, location of health services, population health, critical GIScience

KIRSTEN ZICKFELD

Professor, Geography

Climate science, climate modelling, climate carbon-cycle interactions, carbon budgets compatible with climate targets, climate tipping points.

CLIFFORD ATLEO
(KAM’AYAAM/ CHACHIM’MULTHNII)

Associate Professor, Resource and Environmental Management 

Indigenous governance, community development and political economy

JONN AXSEN

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Electric mobility, automated vehicles and shared mobility. Adoption of pro-environmental technology. Consumer attitudes, values, lifestyle and social influence. Public acceptance of energy projects and climate policy. Quantitative modeling (simulation) of technology adoption and energy systems. Climate policy design and impacts.

Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Ocean and coastal social-ecological systems

ANDREANNE DOYON

Associate Professor, Resource and Environmental Management, Director of REM Planning

Urban governance for low carbon cities, sustainable housing, and questions of justice in sustainability transitions. 

FRANK GOBAS

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Environmental chemistry & toxiology; environmental behaviour & effects of pollutants; chemical engineering & biology

TOM GUNTON

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Forestry, land use, energy, mining and fisheries

PASCAL HAEGELI

Associate Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Interdisciplinary research in avalanche risk management for the development of practical tools that assist backcountry recreationists and avalanche professionals to make better informed decisions.

SCOTT HARRISON

Senior Lecturer, Resource and Environmental Management

Terrestrial ecologist interested in applying the concepts of ecological resilience and Adaptive Management

MEG HOLDEN

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management and Urban Studies (primary)

Urban, sustainable development and policy, sustainable assessment and evaluation, social learning in cities

MARK JACCARD

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Sustainable energy and public policy; environmental economics; energy and materials

KAREN E. KOHFELD

Director, Environmental Science

Professor, Resource and Environmental Managment

Climate change, earth system science, carbon cycling, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, ocean acidification, regional impacts of climate change

CHELSEA LITTLE

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science (Primary) and Resource and Environmental Management

Chelsea's research focuses on ecosystem functioning, community ecology and meta-ecosystem ecology.

SEAN MARKEY

Chair and Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Local and regional economic development; community sustainability; rural development and sustainable infrastructure

JONATHAN MOORE

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management and Biological Sciences (primary)

Aquatic ecology, fisheries, environmental decision-making, watershed science

ANNE K. SALOMON

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Coastal marine ecology and conservation, resilience of social-ecological systems, marine policy

TAMMARA SOMA

Associate Professor, Resource and Environmental Management

Food systems planning, food waste, waste management, and social justice implications within each of these areas.

BRETT VAN POORTEN

Assistant Professor, Resource and Environmental Management 

Social-ecological systems of fisheries, and the effects of invasive species, overfishing, hydroelectric dams. 

JOHN R. WELCH

Director, Heritage Resource Management Program

Professor, Archaeology and Resource and Environmental Management

Professor, Resource and Environmental Management and Archaeology Sovereignty-driven research and Indigenous community collaborations in heritage stewardship and applied archaeology

SOPHIE WILKINSON

Assistant Professor, Resource and Environmental Management 
 

Wildfire and ecosystem scientist developing ecosystem management strategies to reduce negative impacts of wildfires.

KYLE WILSON

Assistant Professor, Resource and Environmental Management 

Quantitative fisheries science, risk and resilience in fisheries to inform management and decision-making.

JASON BROWN

Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Environment

Ecotheology, ethics, phenomenology of sacred landscapes and sense of place. 

ARVIND SARASWAT

LECTURER

Modeling small-area variations in concentrations of urban air pollutants, development of novel methods for estimating population exposure and air quality impact assessment for major industrial sources.