Rapichan Phurisamban
(they/them or she/her) PhD Candidate, Vanier Scholar, Public Scholar, 2023 IBioS Student Fellow Contact Details rapichan.phurisamban@ires.ubc.ca Research Interests Bio Returning to UBC where I received a bachelor’s degree in economics, I find the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) to be an intellectual home for problem-based, interdisciplinary researchers with deep social and ecological concerns. […]
Narayan Gopinathan
MSc Student Contact Details narayansgopi@gmail.com phone: 8584494482 Research Interests Bio Originally from San Diego, California, Narayan graduated with his BS in environmental economics and policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. During his undergraduate studies, he completed research internships at the University of California, San Diego, blueEnergy (an NGO that does water and […]
Alberto Campos
PhD Candidate Contact Details alberto@aquasis.org Research Interests Bio Alberto is a PhD Candidate in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, supervised by Dr. Kai Chan, and Ocean Leaders graduate fellow. His research seeks to understand the cascades triggered by defaunation – including species extinctions, local extirpations and severe population reductions – and their ecological […]
Bronwyn McIlroy-Young
MSc Student Contact Details b.mcilroy-young@alumni.ubc.ca phone: 2268684751 Research Interests Bio Bronwyn began her Masters at IRES in September 2018. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo where her honours thesis focused on communicating about climate change impacts on local weather. Bronwyn’s research interests include science communication, risk perception and knowledge in the […]
Allison Cutting
MSc with Terre Satterfield & Rashid Sumaila, 2022; Research Analyst, UBC IOF
Joanne Nelson
PhD Student Research Interests Bio Joanne Nelson is a Ts’msyen woman who grew up in the northwestern BC communities of Port Edward and Prince Rupert where she gained a tremendous appreciation for nature, in particular the ocean environment. She is from Lax Kw’alaams on her mother’s side and Kitsumkalum on her father’s side. Her passions […]
Martin Z Olszynski
PhD Student Contact Details https://law.ucalgary.ca/profiles/olszynski Research Interests Bio Martin is an associate professor of law at the University of Calgary, with several years of public service in environmental and natural resources law and policy. From 2007 to 2013, he was counsel with the federal Department of Justice, practising law in the legal services unit at […]
Imranul Laskar
PhD Student, NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Doctoral Scholar, Mitacs Accelerate Fellow, UBC Four Year Fellowship Recipient Contact Details imranul.laskar@ubc.ca Research Interests Bio Imranul Laskar is a PhD student in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on global shipping emissions, and investigating the air quality, health […]
Justin Ritchie
Adjunct Professor Research Interests Bio Justin Ritchie is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. His work on climate change and energy technologies, policies and economics has been published in an array of peer-reviewed journals that include Environmental Research Letters, Energy, Energy Economics, and beyond.
Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas
PhD Candidate, SSHRC Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholar, UBC Sustainability Scholar, Four Year Doctoral Fellow Contact Details neha.sharma@ires.ubc.ca https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/sharma-mascarenhas-neha Research Interests Bio Neha is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her doctoral research attempts to understand the socio-economic, policy and industrial dynamics that […]