Research Chairs
UNBC is very proud to be a partner in the Canada Research Chairs Program, intended to ensure that Canadian research and development is globally competitive. It is the objective of the federal government to help universities become centres of leading-edge research and research training. To assist in accomplishing these aims, research professorships—Canada Research Chairs—have been established in universities across the country. The positions enable universities such as UNBC to create outstanding opportunities to attract elite researchers. The British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund and the Canada Foundation for Innovation have also contributed to the success of the program at UNBC, by providing funds for the purchase of equipment critical to the research goals of the institution’s Canada Research Chairs. An enhanced research and development culture in Canada will contribute to improved international competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy, and ultimately to an improved standard of living for Canadians.
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UNBC is also honoured to host BC Leadership Chairs, as well as a number of Forest Renewal BC Endowed Chairs and the Ian McTaggart Cowan Muskwa-Kechika Research Professor. The holders of these research chairs contribute to UNBC's success as a research-intensive university and enhance our ability to carry out locally inspired and internationally significant research in our strategic research areas.
BC Leadership Chairs
Henry Harder
Dr. Donald B. Rix BC Leadership Chair for Aboriginal Environmental Health
Thomas Tannert
BC Leadership Chair In Tall Wood and Hybrid Structures Engineering
Endowed Chairs
Phil Owens
FRBC / Endowed Research Chair In Landscape Ecology
Ellen Petticrew
FRBC / Endowed Research Chair In Landscape Ecology
Ché Elkin
FRBC / Slocan Mixedwood Ecology Chair
Oscar Venter
FRBC / West Fraser Growth and Yield Chair
Heather Bryan
Ian McTaggart Cowan Muskwa-Kechika Research Professor
Knowledge Mobilization Chair
Martha MacLeod
Northern Health - UNBC Knowledge Mobilization Research Chair
Industrial Research Chair
Déry, Dr. Stephen
BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor, Environmental Science
NSERC/RioTinto Industrial Research Chair in Climate Change
and Water Security
Phone: 250-960-5193
Email: stephen.dery@unbc.ca
Website: http://web.unbc.ca/~sdery/
Dr. Déry’s research focuses on cold regions hydrometeorology using a combination of field and satellite observations, various hydroclimatic datasets, and computer modelling. The long-term goal of the NSERC/Rio Tinto Senior Industrial Research Chair in Climate Change and Water Security is to better monitor and assess recent changes in weather and precipitation patterns affecting the Nechako Watershed, to establish their impacts on changing seasonal snowpack evolution and on the vast network of streams and rivers of the Nechako Watershed. More information can be found here.