Faculty

  • Erin Baerwald
    MSc and PhD University of Calgary
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5664
    Office Number: 8-206

    Areas of expertise: Animal behaviour, bat biology, conservation biology, ecology, migration biology

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  • Samuel Bartels
    PhD Forest Sciences (Lakehead University), MSc Forestry (Lakehead University)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6625
    Office Number: 8-334

    Areas of expertise: forest biology; applied forest ecology, silviculture, forest management

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  • Jenia Blair
    • Senior Lab Instructor IV
    Phone: 250-960-5843

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  • Heather Bryan
    PhD (University of Calgary)
    • Assistant Professor (on leave)
    Phone: 250-960-5861
    Office Number: 8-306

    Areas of expertise: Wildlife, conservation, predator-prey interactions, carnivores, mammals, disease ecology, ecophysiology, wildlife health, wildlife ecology, conservation physiology

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  • Jonathan Cale
    PhD, Forest Pathology and Mycology (State University of New York ESF)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5813
    Office Number: 8-313

    Areas of expertise: Forest Pathology, Forest Health, Forest Ecology, Fungal Ecology, Mycology, Chemical Ecology, Tree Physiology

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  • Dr. David Connell
    Associate Professor, RPP MCIP
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5835
    Office Number: 10-3060

    Areas of expertise: Agricultural land use planning, farmland protection, local food systems, community; Luhmann social theory

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  • Dr. Darwyn Coxson
    PhD McMaster University
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6646
    Office Number: 8-333

    Areas of expertise: Lichen ecology, conservation biology, environmental physiology, forest management

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  • Dr. Russ Dawson
    PhD (University of Saskatchewan)
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6068

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  • Dr. Ché Elkin
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5004
    Office Number: Lab 8-332

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  • Scott Green
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5817

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  • Lauren Harding
    PhD, Anthropology (UBC), MA, Social Anthropology (York University), BA (University of Alberta)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5885
    Office Number: 8-244

    Areas of expertise: Environmental anthropology, anthropology of tourism, settler-colonial studies, human-wildlife conflict, ethnographic methods, multi-species ethnography, social anthropology, critical tourism studies, human-wildlife relations, political ecology.

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  • Dr. Ian Hartley
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6054
    Office Number: 10-3006

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  • Dr. Dezene Huber
    PhD (Simon Fraser University), BSc (University of Calgary)
    • Professor
    • ESM Undergraduate Coordinator
    Phone: 250-301-0827
    Email: huber@unbc.ca
    Office Number: 8-248

    Areas of expertise: Arthropods, insects, beetles, integrated pest management, chemical ecology, ecology, conservation, biodiversity, genomics

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  • Chris Johnson
    BSc University of Victoria, PhD University of Northern BC
    • Professor, Landscape Conservation and Management
    Phone: 250-960-5357
    Office Number: 8-330

    Areas of expertise: caribou, conservation, cumulative impacts, ecological thresholds, endangered species

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  • Dean Nicole Koper, Faculty of Environment
    PhD (University of Alberta), MSc (University of Guelph), BSc (University of Guelph)
    • Dean, Faculty of Environment
    Phone: 250-960-5121
    Office Number: 8-266

    Areas of expertise: Avian conservation, wildlife biology, prairie conservation, habitat loss and fragmentation, fire

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  • Dr. Kathy Lewis
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6110
    Office Number: CJMH-2050

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  • Eduardo Martins
    PhD and MSc Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    • Associate Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5855

    Areas of expertise: fish ecology, thermal ecology, movement ecology, population dynamics

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  • PhD (Cornell University)
    • Senior Lab Instructor III
    Phone: 250-960-5009

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  • Philip Mullins
    PhD, MA, BA, HBOR
    • Associate Professor, Wildland Conservation and Recreation
    Phone: 250-960-5509
    Office Number: 8-244

    Areas of expertise: Outdoor recreation, outdoor education, adventure education, adventure, expeditions, wilderness, travel, tourism, skill, environmental ethics, recreation management, experiential education, experiential learning, mobilities, phenomenology, hermeneutics, qualitative research methodologies.

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  • Dr. Brent Murray
    PhD (McMaster University), MSc, BSc (University of Alberta)
    • Professor

    Areas of expertise: Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Conservation Genetics, Biodiversity, Environmental DNA

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  • Dr. Ken Otter
    PhD, MSc (Queen's University), BSc (University of British Columbia)
    • Professor
    • Chair, Ecosystem Science and Management
    • Co-Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Phone: 250-960-5019
    Office Number: 8-341

    Areas of expertise: Animal communication, reproductive strategies, behavioural ecology, avian ecology, urban & disturbance ecology

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  • Dr. Michael Preston
    PhD (University of Toronto), MSc (Trent University), BSc (Hons) (Liverpool John Moores University)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-6659
    Office Number: 8-306

    Areas of expertise: Microbial Ecology, Microbial Communities, Biogeochemistry, Soil Organic Carbon, Greenhouse Gases, Ecosystem Services, Carbon Cycle, Soils, Forests, Wetlands, Lakes

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  • Roy Rea
    PhD, Ecology (Norwegian University of Life Sciences - 2014), Doctor Philosophiae Thesis, MSc, Biology (UNBC - 1999), BSc (California State University, Stanislaus - 1992)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5833

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  • Dr. Mark Shrimpton
    PhD (UBC)
    • Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5991

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  • PhD University of Queensland, Australia
    • Professor, Landscape Conservation and Management
    • FRBC West Fraser Conservation Solutions Research Chair
    Phone: 250-960-0134
    Office Number: 8-334

    Areas of expertise: Conservation Science and Practice

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  • Jennifer Wigglesworth
    PhD (Queen's University), MA (University of Ottawa), BSc (University of Ottawa)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 613-888-2375

    Areas of expertise: Outdoor recreation, outdoor sport, gender, place names, sociocultural studies, settler colonialism, nature-based tourism, rock climbing, adventure, experiential learning, intersectional feminism, qualitative research methodologies, embodiment, sex-integrated sport

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  • Lisa Wood
    PhD, Geography (University of Victoria), MSc, Forestry (UNBC), RPF
    • Associate Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5352
    Office Number: 8-332

    Areas of expertise: Forestry, Silviculture, Forest and Plant Ecology, Tree-Ring Research, Plant Anatomy, Wood Anatomy, Plant Stress Responses.

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