UBC experts are available to comment on drought conditions and water restrictions 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
* unavailable Aug. 7-31
Dr. Sean Fleming (he/him)
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 (he/him)
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
Elise Legarth (she/her)
PhD student, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences
Tel: 604-789-8313
Email: elegarth@eoas.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English
- Water resource modelling, horticultural and agricultural systems water supply and water quality, weather prediction including rainfall
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 (he/him)
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
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
