Full Professor

Research focus: I am a physical oceanographer with skills in fluid mechanics including scaling, analytics, laboratory and numerical modeling. My areas of application include coastal oceanography, biogeochemical-physical interactions in the ocean and how atmospheric forcing impacts both.

Website: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~sallen/

Office: ESB 3017

Phone: (604) 822-2828

Email:  sallen@eoas.ubc.ca

Associate Professor

Research focus: My students and I work on a range of topics that all (loosely) fit under the heading "Cloud Physics". Much of our research is aimed at better understanding the processes that determine the radiative properties of layer clouds. We are especially interested in the ways in which stratus and cirrus clouds form, persist, and dissipate; these clouds exert a controlling influence on the global climate. Follow this link to find abstracts, citations and preprints of recent papers.I'm principal investigator for an NSERC strategic project called Cloud Aerosol Feedbacks and Climate.

Website: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/personal/paustin ???

Office: EOS-South 157

Phone: (604) 822-2175

Email: paustin@eoas.ubc.ca

Full Professor

Research focus: Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics And Applications In Geophysic.s Skinny currents, tremor and dambreaks. Large Dynamical Systems. Pattern Formation In Systems With Continuous Spectra And Fluid Shear Flows. Mixing, Tides And Convection. Stratified Kolmogorov Flow. Cornstarch. Sand Ripples, Snails and More.

Website: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~FluidLab/faculty/balmforth.html

Office: Mathematics Building, 229C

Phone: 604-827-3034

Email: njb@math.ubc.ca

Full Professor

Research focus: We focus on chemical and physical processes important in the atmosphere. Of special interest are atmospheric aerosol particles and the role they play in urban air pollution, climate change and atmospheric chemistry. Ultimately our goal is to better understand the role of human activity on the Earth'­s atmosphere.

Website: http://bertram.chem.ubc.ca/

Office: Chemistry E222

Phone: 604-822-2113

Email: bertram@chem.ubc.ca

Full Professor

Research focus: My research has been the energy and water balance of forests. For many years I’ve also had an interest in plant water relations. More recently I have become extremely interested measuring forest–atmosphere CO2 exchange (even on a long-term basis which may be foolish) and in trying to understand the processes controlling the carbon balance of forests..

Website: http://biomet.landfood.ubc.ca/

Office: MacMillan 135

Phone: 604–822–2730

Email: andrew.black@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor

Research focus: Our research focuses on understanding the fate of organic molecules in the atmosphere with implications for air quality and climate. Our research team uses field-deployable mass spectrometers, aerosol instruments and cloud chambers to study the fate of pollutants in the air that we breathe. For example, our team studies wildfire smoke, termed brown carbon, to determine how atmospheric biomass burning generates oxidants and nucleates clouds. We also conduct work on outdoor and indoor air volatile organic compounds to better constrain our exposure to atmospheric chemicals.

Website: https://www.atmoschemgroup.org/

Office: Chemistry D344

Phone: 604-822-4435

Email: borduas@chem.ubc.ca

Full Professor

Research focus: I am an interdisciplinary climate scientist who aims to address societally-relevant questions surrounding climate change. Most of my research is at the intersection of physical climate science, marine science and public policy. My current areas of focus are patterns of ocean warming and sea-level rise; climate change adaptation in the developing world, especially in coastal areas; and climate change and coral reefs. This research involves a combination of numerical modelling, large-scale geospatial analysis, and both scientific and interview-based field work in the south and central Pacific.

Website: https://simondonner.com/

Office: GEOG 133

Phone: 604 822 6959

Email: simon.donner@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor

Research focus: My research addresses challenges at the interface of environmental modelling and policy through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on air pollution and toxics. How can we use simulation, statistical, and qualitative methods to assess the environmental and health impacts of technology and policy? How do we take into account uncertainty in human, technological, and natural systems? And how can we use environmental modelling to better empower communities and inform policy decision-making, from local to global scales?

Website: http://www.leap-ires.org/

Office: AERL 434

Phone: (604) 822-2403

Email: amanda.giang@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Eco-Meteorology

Research focus: I study the exchange of carbon, water and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere. I investigate how land atmosphere exchanges of greenhouse gas fluxes respond to a changing climate and disturbances, and how we can modify land management practices for climate change mitigation and adaptation. I also seek to understand how ecosystem responses to global change can feedback to slow or accelerate future climate change. I combine micrometeorological measurements with remote sensing and modelling to understand soil-plant-atmosphere interactions across a range of spatial and temporal scales..

Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/saraknox/

Office: GEOG 235

Phone: 604 822 2900

Email: sara.knox@ubc.ca

Adjunct Professor

Career focus: Weather forecasting for renewable energy. Meteorology education.

Websites: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/atsc113/
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/atsc313/

Office: room 159 Earth & Ocean Sci - South

Phone: (he prefers emails)

Email: dmccollor@eoas.ubc.ca

Full Professor

Research focus: My long-term research goals have been primarily directed at understanding meteorological phenomena that develop in regions of complex, urbanized terrain. An important applied focus of this work has been the investigation of the role such phenomena (e.g. land sea breezes, slope winds and urban effects) have on the transport and dispersion of pollutants.

Website: https://geog.ubc.ca/profile/ian-mckendry/

Office: GEOG 250

Phone: 604-822-4929

Email: ian.mckendry@geog.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor

Research focus: I am a polar climate scientist, combining fieldwork in key locations, innovation in the lab, and interactions with the modelling community to better quantify our understanding of polar climate variability at the decadal to millennial scale, and to better assess the risks associated with the current global warming.

Website: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/anaisorsi

Office: ESB 4017

Phone: (604) 822-6456

Email: aorsi@eoas.ubc.ca

Full Professor

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Website: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/richpawlowicz

Office: ESB 3019

Phone: (604) 822-1356

Email: rpawlowicz@eoas.ubc.ca

Associate Professor

Research focus: I use state-of-the-art field, modeling and data analysis methods to quantify the response of mountain glaciers to climate change on regional and global scales, and to narrow the uncertainties in projections of glacial contributions to regional streamflow as well as to global sea level rise.

Website: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/valentinaradic

Office: ESB 3065

Phone: (604) 827-1446

Email: vradic@eoas.ubc.ca

Full Professor, & Chair of the ATSC program

Research focus: numerical weather prediction and its applications to clean energy, forest fires & smoke, climate change, transportation, and weather disasters. Also strengths in atmospheric boundary layers, turbulence, and air quality.

Website: https://wfrt.eoas.ubc.ca/

Office: room 158 Earth & Ocean Sci - South

Phone: 604-822-5901 (but he prefers emails)

Email: roland.stull@ubc.ca

Associate Professor

Research focus: I am a sea-going physical oceanographer with research interests in process studies related to ocean dynamics. I am particularly interested in scale interactions. One example is how features of the large-scale circulation, like the Gulf Stream jet, interact with the smaller-scale mesoscale eddy field, the "weather systems" of the ocean. Other examples are how the internal wave field on sub-eddy scales couples to smaller-scale turbulent motions, and how waves and turbulence are modulated by the larger-scale background flow.

Website: http://www.stephaniewaterman.ca/Work

Office: ESB 3053

Phone: (604) 827-2665

Email: swaterman@eoas.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor

Research focus: I have a wide range of research interests within atmospheric dynamics; a major focus of my current work is studying how large-scale atmospheric dynamics (circulation patterns, planetary-scale atmospheric waves...) contribute to extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold snaps. I am also interested in understanding fundamental aspects of our current climate, and how atmospheric circulation may change in the future under anthropogenic warming. I run and analyze results from climate models and analyze data from atmospheric observations to explore these topics.

Website: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/rachelwhite

Office: ESB 4019

Phone: (but she prefers emails)

Email: rwhite@eoas.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor

Research focus: My research program revolves around the development and application of real-world-based tools to quickly and quantitatively assess the impact of our policy and technology decisions on air pollution and climate outcomes, and to use the knowledge gained to support better environmental policy planning.

Website: http://naomizimmerman.com/

Office: CEME 2066

Phone: (604) 822-9433

Email: nzimmerman@mech.ubc.ca

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Research focus: zzz.

Website: xxy

Office: room 999 xxxEarth & Ocean Sci - South

Phone: 555-555-5555 (but s/he prefers emails)

Email: xxz@ubc.ca

yyy Professor

Research focus: zzz.

Website: xxy

Office: room 999 xxxEarth & Ocean Sci - South

Phone: 555-555-5555 (but s/he prefers emails)

Email: xxz@ubc.ca