Stephen Chignell

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Stephen Chignell

PhD Candidate, International Doctoral Fellow, R. Howard Webster Fellow, Vanier Scholar

Contact Details

steve dot chignell at ubc dot ca

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dUVhfswAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Biodiversity conservation, Community-based research, Connectivity science, Data science, Environmental and cultural values, Environmental justice, Geosciences, Political ecology, Resource governance and management, Science-policy interface, Social ecological systems, Social Network Analysis

Bio

I am interested in both the physical and social aspects of environmental and sustainability issues, and enjoy finding creative ways to understand their intersection.  Prior to UBC, I completed a M.S. in Watershed Science at Colorado State University, where I studied relationships among water development, land change, and urban growth in Ethiopia.  I also contributed geospatial analyses to the IPBES Global Assessment and was involved in a series of participatory mapping projects with the Secondary Cities Initiative.  Most recently, I worked to reconstruct the history of Antarctic science with the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project.