Emeriti

B.A. Honours, M. Phil., University College London; Ph.D. (1974), University of Colorado, Boulder

"Research interests focus on hillslope geomorphology, and in particular mass movement phenomena in the Western Cordillera."

 

Former Head of the Department (2002-2005). Dr. Bovis is the local contact person for B.Sc students who require more information about the registration requirements of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC).

 

Email Contact: michael.bovis@geog.ubc.ca

B.A., M.A., Oxford; Ph.D., University of Washington

"Research interests focus on the energy Industry in BC."

 

Former Head of the Department (1968-1974).

 

Office Phone: 604-822-2663

B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D. (1969), UBC

"My research interests focus on the morphodynamics of rivers at all scales from steepland streams to large rivers. I am engaged in long-term studies of sediment transport and stability in Fraser, Peace and Mackenzie rivers. Sediment transport is also studied in an experimental program conducted in our environmental hydraulics laboratory. In addition, I am interested in fluvial landscape evolution over intermediate time scales (order 10,000 years). I also am interested in the history and methodology of geomorphology."

 

Honours: Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

Email Contact: michael.church@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-2900

Room Number: GEOG 234

B.A., Iowa; M.A., A.B.D., University of California, Berkeley

"Research interests focus on astronomical influences on the location and layout of sacred sites in the Sinitic world."

 

Email Contact: richard.copley@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-2663

B.Sc., M.Sc., UBC; A.M., Ph.D. (1973), University of Pennsylvania

"Much of my early research focused on the trade off between equity and efficiency of delivery of public and private economic activity most notably in transportation and education. I applied spatial data analysis to develop public infrastructure such as the Expo Transit Line in metro Vancouver and to examine the New York inner-city school funding controversy. More recently I have extended my interests into public health and morphed spatial analysis approaches used in transportation to apply to vectors of disease transmission in epidemiology."

 

Email Contact: ken.denike@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3537

B.A., UBC; M.S., Ph.D. (1964), University of Wisconsin

"Research interests focus on European settlement in early Canada and on geographies of colonialism in early British Columbia."

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada; LL.D. honoris causa, York University

Email Contact: cole.harris@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3537

Room Number: GEOG 241

B.A., Clark University; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of Montreal

"Research interests focus on arctic permafrost and geomorphology. Dr. Mackay maintains an active research program along the western Arctic coast of Canada."

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada; Doctor of Geography (Hon), University of Ottawa; D.E.S. (Hon), University of Waterloo; D.Sc. (Hon), UVIC; D.Sc. (Hon), UBC; Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University of Helsinki

B.Sc, North Dakota State University; AM, University of Rochester; Ph.D (1974), University of Washington

"Snow and avalanche mechanics, avalanche dynamics and engineering, avalanche prediction and forecasting."

 

Dr. McClung holds the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Snow and Avalanche Science, supported by NSERC, Forest Renewal BC, Canadian Mountain Holidays, and UBC. The research program covers avalanche forecasting and interaction of avalanches and forest cover.

 

Email Contact: david.mcclung@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-9157

Room Number: GEOG 241

B.A., University of New Zealand; M.A., Ph.D. (1969), University of Wellington

"I am currently carrying ongoing research for a book on 'The Southeast Asian City Revisited' (tentative title) funded by research grants from the Institute of Asian Research UBC, research on the sustainability of Asian mega-regions with funded by the University of Tokyo and research on Malaysian urbanization with colleagues at the University Kebangsaan, Malaysia."

 

Former Director of the Institute of Asian Research, UBC (1978-1992; July 1995 - December 1998).

 

Email Contact: tmcgee@interchange.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3937

Room Number: IAR 377

B.A., M.A., University of Cambridge; Ph.D., UBC, 1968

"Research interests focus on the changing economic geography of the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe."

 

Former Associate Head of the Department (1998-2001).

 

Email Contact: robert.north@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-2663

B.Sc., London University; M.A., University of Kansas, 1961

"Research interests focus on vegetation change along the Peace River."

 

Email Contact: margaret.north@geog.ubc.ca

B.Sc. Honours, University of Bristol; M.A., Ph.D. (1967), McMaster University

"Research interests focus on urban climate and the energy and water balances of cities."

 

Former Head of the Department (1991-1996).

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~toke

Email Contact: tim.oke@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-2900

Room Number: GEOG 234

B.A., M.A., UBC; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

"My research interests focus on pre-Hispanic wetland agriculture; cultural-historical geography of Mesoamerican tropical lowlands; and the recent impact of agricultural globalization. I am currently working on an environmental history of the Candelaria River Basin in southwestern Campeche, Mexico, from the recent extraction of the river's age-old transportational function by a road network, back to the Archaic period and very early evidence (ca. 7000 BP) for human intervention in the river system."

 

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~asiemens

Email Contact: asiemens@interchange.ubc.ca

B.A. Honours, University of Cambridge; A.M. Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D. (1968), University of Cambridge

"My research focusses on global environmental change in mountainous landscapes, emphasizing the role of relief, hydroclimatology and human activities as the major drivers of change. Twenty-first century mountain landscapes are evolving under the globally scaled controls of hydroclimate and the spatially and temporally discontinuous impacts of human activity and tectonic plate movements. It is my premise that mass balances of sediments, solutes and nutrients are needed to test common assumptions about rates and causes of landscape change."

 

Dr. Slaymaker is currently the co-editor of two journals - Catena and The Canadian Geographer. Former Associate Vice-President Research, UBC (1991-1995). Former Head of the Department (1982-1991).

 

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~olav

Email Contact: olav.slaymaker@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3537

Room Number: GEOG 241

B.A. Honours, McMaster University; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh

"Research interests focus on geography of the Arctic; human adaptation to, and impact upon, the Canadian North."

 

Member, Canadian Polar Commission. Former Assistant Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC (1969-1975). Former Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, UBC (1975-1990). Research Planning Committee, Sustainable Forest Management Network/NCE 1996 2005; Chair 1998 2005; Strategic Planning Committee 2005 2010, Chair 2009 - 2010.

 

Email Contact: john.stager@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3537