Diploma in Geography, University of Basel; Ph.D. in Meteorology, University of Basel

"My research focuses on land-atmosphere interactions, carbon cycling, and atmospheric turbulence. I use experimental methods to investigate and measure physical and chemical processes relevant in land-atmosphere exchange in forest and urban ecosystems. Current research projects include basic turbulence and dispersion studies (exchange processes in forest canopies, urban dispersion processes) and applied approaches that link greenhouse gas exchange to ecosystem management practices. Our lab is equipped with several eddy covariance systems, a tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer for carbon and oxygen isotopes, a sonic array, autonomous meteorological stations, radiation instruments, and towers."

 

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

Email Contact: andreas.christen@ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-6620

Lab Phone: 604-827-4520

Room Number: GEOG 132

Lab Number: GEOG 249, MCML 136

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.Sc. Honours, UBC; M.Sc., McGill University; Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2004)

"I am a fluvial geomorphologist interested in how rivers respond to landuse and environmental changes. My research group is conducting laboratory experiments and field studies as part of a larger effort to improve our understanding of stream channel (in)stability, fish habitat and bed material transport. In particular, we are focussing on the influence of disturbances such as forest fire on channel morphodynamics, the effect of large wood on sediment transport dynamics and the influence of hydropower generation on stream channel processes. I am also interested in the broader set of processes controlling landscape characteristics."

 

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

Email Contact: brett.eaton@ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-2257

Room Number: GEOG 143

B.A., Ben Gurion University of the Negev; M.Sc., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ph.D. (1989), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"My research covers a wide range of topics in geomorphology and hydrology such as the interaction between hill-slopes and channels, channel stability and morphology, river sediment transport and sediment yield, stream ecology, in-channel wood dynamics, and modeling fine sediments and their interactions with stream physical and biological characteristics. I have worked on fundamental processes involving flow and sediment transport and contributed to the advancement of river science at various scales, from sediment grains to watersheds, and in fields outside fluvial geomorphology such as urban hydrology, water quality, and water resources management. Model development has been a very important component of my research, with considerable experimental flume work used to complement field data. My current research concerns small, forested streams such as the routing of water and sediment, associated channel characteristics, and ecological processes. My field and laboratory experimental work has been published in leading international journals."

 

Dr. Hassan is currently the Department Head (2012-2015).

 

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

Email Contact: marwan.hassan@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-5894

Room Number: GEOG 253, GEOG 221

B.Sc., University of Toronto; M.Sc., Ph.D. (1988), University of Western Ontario

"My work focuses on advanced spatial analysis in the physical, health and social sciences, and in the intersection of these areas (e.g., medical biogeography and Geographic Information Science). This includes a focus on both theoretical investigations and innovative applications of GIScience in subject areas where space and place are considered important explanatory elements (e.g. wildlife use of landscape in the Serengeti). My students and I explore such areas as neighbourhood theory and error and accuracy in GIS, modeling, and visualization. This includes the use of spatial analysis in landscape classification, biogeography, medical biogeography, environmental geography, human-ecosystem interactions and conservation biology. Biodiversity informatics is a current interest, as is exploring the social aspects of GIScience and Geospatial technologies, the reflexivities between technology and society. The thread that links this research is the understanding and insight that advanced spatial analysis brings to research and theoretical problems--often unveiling subtleties that would otherwise be overlooked."

 

Dr. Klinkenberg is currently the editor and project coordinator of E-Flora BC / E-Fauna BC.

 

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

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/

Email Contact: brian.klinkenberg@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3534

Room Number: GEOG 209

Lab Number: GEOG 210J

B.Sc. Honours, UBC; Ph.D. (1984), University of Canterbury

"I am trying to gain a better understanding of the ways in which climate variability and change on various time scales, in conjunction with forest and glacier dynamics, influence hydrological processes and the patterns of streamflow and water quality."

 

Dr. Moore currently holds the FRBC Chair in Hydrology.

 

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

Email Contact: dan.moore@ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3538

Room Number: GEOG 225

Lab Number: GEOG 246

B.A. Honours, University of Sheffield; M.A., Ph.D. (1974), University of Toronto

Former Head of the Department (1996-2002; 2005-2009). Former Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, UBC (1990-1996).

 

Honours: Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

Email Contact: graeme.wynn@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-6226

Room Number: GEOG 236