Parts of British Columbia are experiencing significant fall heat, drought, and wildfires. UBC experts are available to comment.
Dr. Younes Alila
Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management
Email: younes.alila@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Climate and land use change effects on droughts, floods and landslides
- Logging and forest practice effects on droughts, floods and landslides
Dr. Peter Arcese (he/him)
Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Phone: 778-350-9295 (please text first)
Interview language(s): English
- Evolutionary adaptation to change in plants and animals, genetics of adaptation, conservation area design for resilience
Dr. Lori Daniels
Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Email: lori.daniels@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Wildfires and wildfire management
- Forest fires, past and present
- Impacts of climate change on forests
*Available after 4pm, October 14
Dr. David Scott
Associate Professor, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences
Email: david.scott@ubc.ca
Phone: 778-583-6773
Interview language(s): English
- Forest hydrology
- Wildfire risk and wildfire risk reduction
- Wildfire effects on soils, hydrology of watersheds and erosion
Dr. John Richardson
Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Email: john.richardson@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Effects of droughts on natural ecosystems
- Effects of flooding and water supplies on streams and lakes, water quality and debris torrents
- Impacts of excess water on slopes and floods
- Urban impacts of drainage patterns and loss of natural stream networks in many parts of the Lower Mainland
Dr. Eric Taylor
Professor, Department of Zoology
Email: etaylor@zoology.ubc.ca
Phone: 250-393-2486
Interview language(s): English
- Effects of drought on fish