Staff
Devin Todd
Researcher-in-Residence, Negative Emissions Technologies
Vanessa Lueck
Researcher-in-Residence, Coastal Adaptation
Sara Muir
Program Manager, University of British Columbia
Nastenka Calle
Program Manager, Simon Fraser University
Stephanie Cairns
Director of Strategic Policy and Analysis
Dylan Clark
Associate Director of Research and Operations
Edna Jack
Finance Assistant
Kathleen Laird
Administrative Coordinator
Cindy MacDougall
Communications Manager
Emily MacNair
Director of Adaptation and Community Engagement
Caroline Merner
Project Manager
Cassandra Price
Administrative Manager
Rene Suša
Researcher-in-Residence, Climate Education
Principal Investigators
Kees Lokman
Project principal investigator and Associate Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the UBC Coastal Adaptation Lab.
Ralph Evins
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Ron Kellett
Professor and Director, SALA and Principal Investigator in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Werner Kurz
Principal Investigator, Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada
Walter Mérida
Principal Investigator, Associate Dean – Faculty of Applied Science UBC
Kate Moran
Principal Investigator, President/CEO Oceans Networks Canada, a UVic initiative
Oscar Venter
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, and FRBC/West Fraser research chair in the Ecosystem Science and Management Program at UNBC
Majid Bahrami
Principal Investigator: Innovations in Mobile Thermal Energy Storage
Stephanie Chang
Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) University of British Columbia
Andrew Rowe
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic)
Peter Wild
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and IESVic
Peter Arcese
Co-Principal Investigator, Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, UBC
Diana Allen
Professor, Dep. Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Clifford Atleo
Assistant professor, Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
Dr. David B. Zandvliet
Professor, Faculty of Education, SFU; co-director, Institute for Environmental Learning; UNESCO Chair in Bio-cultural Diversity and Education
Xiaotao (Tony) Bi
Professor, Director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre
Dr. Yankai Cao
Assistant professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC
Curran Crawford
Principal Investigator, Solid Carbon and Safe Passage projects
Lori Daniels
Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, UBC
Zuomin Dong
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UVic
Dr. Ché Elkin
Associate Professor, and FRBC/Slocan Mixedwood Ecology research chair in the Ecosystem Science and Management at UNBC
David Goldberg
Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Dr. Scott Green
Associate Professor in Ecosystem Science and Management at UNBC
Jesse Hahm
Assistant professor, Geography, SFU
Paul Hessburg
Senior Research Scientist, US Forest Service.
Mark Jaccard
Distinguished Professor, Director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
Michael R. King
Associate Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Finance, UVic
Dr. Shannon Leddy
Assistant professor of teaching, Faculty of Education, UBC; co-director, Institute for Environmental Learning
Jian Liu
Assistant Professor, Principal’s Research Chair in Energy Storage Technologies, UBC
Elicia Maine
W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Associate Vice President, Knowledge Mobilization & Innovation, Office of the Vice President, Research & International, SFU
Dr. Basma Majerbi
Associate Professor of Finance, Gustavson School of Business
Nancy Olewiler
Principal Investigator, Professor, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
Wei Qu
Research Council Officer of National Research Council Canada
Dominik Roeser
Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, UBC
Anne Salomon
Associate Professor School of Environmental and Resource Management, Faculty of Environment, SFU
Terre Satterfield
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, UBC
Oliver Schmidtke
Director, Centre for Global Studies University of Victoria
Joseph Shea
Associate Professor, Environmental Geomatics
Dr. Shahabaddine Sokhansanj
Adjunct professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Biomass and Bioenergy Research Group, UBC
Chester Upham
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Caterina Valeo
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Raymond Cole
Principal Investigator in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Jonn Axsen
Associate Professor, Resource and Environmental Management
Paul McFarlane
Professor Emeritus, Department of Wood Science
Taco Niet
Assistant Professor (Practitioner), School of Sustainable Energy Engineering, SFU
Carolyn Smyth
Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
Researchers
Ben Pelto
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow
Brian Menounos
Professor, Geography Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change UNBC
Omar Herrera
Program Manager - Transportation Futures
Richard Schuster
Research Scientist at Carleton University and a Conservation Prioritization Consultant for the Nature Conservancy of Canada
Jantsje van Loon-Steensma
Assistant Professor Climate Adaptation and Nature Based Flood Protection Water Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University and Research
Kevin Andrew
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Nastaran Arianpoo
Clean Energy Research Group, Department of Political Science, SFU
Orhan Atabay
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eric Balke
Coordinator – South Coast Conservation Land Management Program
Shannon Bard
Co-Lead, Climate Venture Studio, UBC
George Benson
Co-founder, managing director Climate Migrants and Refugees Project
Christina Bollo
Post-doctoral Researcher with the PICS / Built Environment Project
Jean Boucher
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
David Bristow
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Stephanie Chang
Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) University of British Columbia
Seán Collins
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Laurence Coogan
Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Danielle Denley
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, SFU, and MEOPAR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2020-21 recipient
Brent Doberstein
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Hadi Dowlatabadi
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
Andréanne Doyon
Assistant Professor and REM Planning Director
Caren Dymond
Forest Carbon and Climate Change Researcher, Government of British Columbia
Curtis Evans
Research Assistant, University of Victoria
Alejandro Frid
Science Coordinator/Ecologist, Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, School of Environmental Studies
Michael Gerrard
Professor, Columbia Law School, Columbia University
Cynthia Girling
Professor, school of architecture and landscape architecture UBC
Gregory Greene
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Bradford Griffin
Executive Director, Canadian Energy and Emissions Data Centre, SFU
William Hammond
Researcher
Kasun Hewage
Faculty Research in the PICS / Built Environment Project
George Hoberg
Professor, Dept. Political Science UBC
Kira Hoffman
postdoctoral researcher, UBC and Bulkley Valley Research Centre
Shannon Holding
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Thor Jensen
Post-doctoral Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Eneanwan Johnson
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ilana Judah
Architect M.Sc. Student, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES), UBC
Kunal Khandelwal
Business Development Officer, Ocean Networks Canada
Christine Kormos
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team
Rachel Lauer
Faculty of Science at University of Calgary
Hanshuo Liu
Research Officer, National Research Council Canada
Zoe Long
Research Manager, Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team School of Resource and Environmental Management.
Maggie Low
Assistant Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC
Yuhao Bean Lu
Post-doctoral Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Anahita Mani
Director, MANIXXIUM Vancouver Consulting Group
Tara Martin
Professor of Conservation Decision Science in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia
Heather Mitchell
PICS Fellow
Jonathan Moore
Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management at Simon Fraser University
Rose Murphy
Postdoctoral researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Sara Nawaz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kevin Palmer-Wilson
Research Associate
Angelique Pilon
Director, Urban Innovation Research, CIRS / University Sustainability Initiative UBC
Bryson Robertson
2060 Project Manager, Associate Professor; Co-Director, Pacific Marine Energy Center Oregon State University
Mina Rouhani
postdoctoral fellow at Laboratory for Alternative Energy Conversion (LAEC), Simon Fraser University
David Roulston
Manager of Municipal Infrastructure
Adam Rysanek
Faculty Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Jon Salter
Post-doctoral Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Martin Scherwath
Senior Staff Scientist, Ocean Networks Canada
Maged Senbel
Faculty Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Angela Slagle
Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Byron Smiley
Forest Carbon Modelling Analyst
Evan Solomon
Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington
Sheryl Staub-French
Professor, Civil Engineering UBC
Jessica Stigant
Associate Director, Partnerships, Ocean Networks Canada
James Tansey
Faculty Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project
Alvin Thompson
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Coastal Adaptation Lab
Ben Tutolo
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Calgary
Romany Webb
Senior Fellow, Sabin Centre, Columbia University
Adam S. Wright.
Clean Energy Research Group, Department of Political Science, SFU
Michael Wustmans
Visiting scholar at the Beedie School of Business, Simon-Fraser-Universit
Zehn (Zach) Xu
Economist, Climate Change Policy, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
Robert W Gray
AFE Certified Wildland Fire Ecologist
Susan Prichard
Fire Ecologist
Jocelyne Laflamme
Research Geographer at UBC
Florencia Tiribelli
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, UBC
Sheng Xie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Forest Resources Management, UBC
Laurie McCormick
Forest Carbon Management Project (FCMP) - Project Assistant
Tristan Zaborniak
Wildfire and Carbon Modeller, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
Nicholas Coops
Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing, Department of Forest Resources Management
Ned Djilali
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Energy System Design and Computational Modelling, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and IESVic
Suzanne Goldberg
Project Management
Robbie Hember
PICS postdoctoral fellow (2017)
Tony Lemprière
Senior manager of Climate Change Policy, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
Jerome Mayaud
Postdoctoral Fellow
AnnaLisa Meyboom
Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Gregory Paradis
PICS postdoctoral fellow (2018)
Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Kara Shaw
Director, Assoc. Professor, Environmental Studies
Martino Tran
Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning UBC
Tongli Wang
Associate Director, Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics
Students
Paul Dupuis
Research Assistant
Patrick J. Robinson
MSc student, Natural Resource and Environmental Studies, UNBC
Mehdi Aminipouri
PhD Candidate
Lea Antesz
MSc candidate in Earth Sciences, SFU
Mahyar Ashouri
Ph.D. candidate
Lucas Aubert
Wildfire and Carbon Modeller
Gerard Avellaneda Domene
PhD Student, University of Victoria
Jen Baron
PhD Candidate, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, UBC
Nicole Bates-Eamer
PhD Candidate
Jonathan Behnke
Research Assistant
Thomas Budd
PhD Candidate, SFU
Tugce Conger
PhD Fellow
Xavier Corredor Llano
PhD student, Natural Resource and Environmental Studies, UNBC
Shaieree Cottar
PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo
Ben Cross
PhD Student, University of Waterloo
Karen T. Dietrich
MSc student, Natural Resource and Environmental Studies, UNBC
Gabrielle Diner
Master's Student, SFU
Emily Doan
Master's Student
James Donald
PhD Candidate
Heather Earle
MRM Candidate, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, SFU
Benji Eisenberg
Research Assistant
Meredith Fraser
MRM Candidate, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, SFU
Ariel Greenblat
MSc candidate in Earth Sciences, SFU
Dylan Hereema
Senior Analyst & Researcher, Community Energy Initiative, Ecotrust
Viviane Hippmann Gauer
PICS Graduate Fellow
David Hodgson
Master's Student, SFU
Ben Hudson
Masters candidate with the PICS Forest Carbon Management Project
MD Eliasinul Islam
Graduate Research Assistant at ΔE+ Research Group, School of Sustainable Energy, Engineering, SFU
S M Nazrul Islam
PhD Candidate
Devon Jones
Master’s student, University of Waterloo
Mathidle Jung
Master’s student at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
Victor Keller
PhD Candidate
Julia Kidder
PhD Student, University of British Columbia (School of Community & Regional Planning)
Kamaria Kuling
MASc student in Sustainable Energy Engineering at SFU
Emma Louis
M.Sc. student
Jennifer Magel
PhD Student, University of British Columbia
Dan Manaig
PhD candidate, UBC
Justin McCarty
M. Arch student Elements Lab/nLab School of Architecture & Landscape Archicture UBC
Josha McNab
Master’s student (graduated)
Pierre McWhannel
ΔE+ Research Group, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering, SFU
Inger Miller
Masters Candidate, Resource and Environmental Management
Adam Mitton
PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, SFU
Samantha Morgan
Master’s student
Sina Motalebi
ΔE+ Research Group, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering, SFU
Alexandre Nott
MSc candidate in Earth Sciences, SFU
Tira Okamoto
MRM-Planning Student, Simon Fraser University
Sarah Ozog
PhD candidate, Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
Stefan Pauer
PhD Fellow
Tharindu Prabatha
PhD Candidate
Jennifer Rae Pierce
PhD Student, School of community and regional planning, UBC
Simone Rawal
MSc Student, University of British Columbia
Anwen Rees
Masters in Resource Management (Planning) Student
Kendra Scanlon
Research Assistant
Sven Scholtysik
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Maha Shehadeh
MASc Candidates, Sustainable Energy Engineering Program, SFU
Emma Starke
Master's Student, SFU
Mike Stefanuk
PhD Student at UBC
Brennan Strandberg-Salmon
BEnv Candidate, School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU
Hoda Talebian
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in the PICS/transportation for future Project
Tsjerk van Doornik
MSc Student, Wageningen University & Research
Cameron Wade
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Melanie Wartenberg
MBA Student
Felicia Watterodt
Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
Laura Whelan
MASc Candidate, Sustainable Energy Engineering, SFU
Charlotte Whitney
PhD Candidate
Sunya Zaman
Yue Zhang
PhD Candidate, UBC
Dan Clancy
Master’s student
Rojin Derakhshan
Master’s student
Jeff English
PhD
McKenzie Fowler
MASc
Anaissia Franca
Master’s student
Alyona Ivanova
Master’s student
Benjamin Lyseng
PhD, UVic,
Matthew Simons
Master’s student
Autumn Umanetz
Master’s student
Graham Wilson
Master’s student
Interns
