UBC experts on drought
B.C. is facing unprecedented drought levels this early in the season. UBC experts available to comment on the conditions.
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UBC experts are available to comment on drought conditions in B.C.
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. Werner Antweiler
Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business
Email: werner.antweiler@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English, German
- Water economics and management
Dr. Sean Fleming
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: sfleming@eoas.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Water resource science and management
- Flood and water supply forecasting
- Climate variability and change
- Machine learning
- Snow and glaciers
Dr. Michael Healey
Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Tel: 250-317-7839
Email: healey@mail.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Reduced stream flow and higher water temperature in rivers and lakes, and effects on salmon
- Increased surface temperature in the ocean, and effects on salmon
Dr. John Janmaat (he/him)
Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science
Email: john.janmaat@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Environmental economics
- Natural resource economics, including water resource economics
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
- Urban impacts of drainage patterns and loss of natural stream networks in many parts of the Lower Mainland
- Ways to conserve water this summer
* available all day July 18 and morning of July 19
Dr. Sean Smukler (he/him)
Associate professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Email: sean.smukler@ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Effects of droughts on agriculture and farming in B.C.
- Adapting farming practices in a changing climate
- Role of agriculture in climate change
Dr. Eric Taylor
Professor, Department of Zoology
Tel: 250-393-2486
Email: etaylor@zoology.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Effects of drought on fish
