UBC experts on Earth Day 2025
On April 22, the world will celebrate Earth Day under the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.” UBC experts are available to comment.
Dr. Mohammad Arjmand
(He/Him/His)
Professor and Director, Nanomaterial and Polymer Nanocomposite Laboratory, UBCO School of Engineering
Email: mohammad.arjmand@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Waste reduction and plastic recycling
* Unavailable April 16-18
Dr. Johan Foster, PhD
(He/Him/His)
Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tel: 604-817-8882
Email: johan.foster@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Global water challenges, particularly PFAS and microplastics
- Waste reduction by using bio-based materials
Prof. Robert Godin
(He/Him/His)
Assistant Professor, UBCO Dept. of Chemistry
Tel: 778-251-4345
Email: robert.godin@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, French
Expertise:
- Solar energy, hydrogen, water purification, green chemistry, sustainability
Kathryn Harrison, PhD
(She/Her/Hers)
Professor, Dept. of Political Science
phone: 604-822-4922
Email: kathryn.harrison@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Climate policy
Dr. Kathryn McConnell, PhD, MESc
(She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology
Email: kathryn.mcconnell@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Wildfire impacts on people, climate migration, environmental hazards, climate change adaptation
Lorien Nesbitt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Resources Management
phone: 604-822-1966
Email: lorien.nesbitt@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, Spanish
Expertise:
- Health and environment, urban ecosystems, urban sustainability, urban greening, environmental justice
Dr. Neil Nunn
Postdoctoral fellow, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Email: neil.j.nunn@gmail.com
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Mount Polley mine disaster
- Mining impacts in B.C. and how our current ecological challenges our deeply rooted in B.C.’s colonial history
- Less known impacts of hydrogeneration in B.C.
- Fisheries law, colonialism and regulatory capture
Dr. John S. Richardson, PhD
(He/Him/His)
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Tel: 604-822-6586
Email: john.richardson@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Water, biodiversity and ecosystems
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
University Killam Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Tel: 604-351-7406
Email: r.sumaila@oceans.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, Hausa, Norwegian
Expertise:
- Deep sea mining regulations
- Exploratory licenses
- Environmental and social risks of deep sea mining
- Economics of deep sea mining including risks and benefits
David Tindall
Professor, Dept. of Sociology
Tel: 604-822-2363
Email: tindall@mail.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- The environmental movement, environmental organizations
- Public opinion about environmental and climate issues, pro-environmental behaviour and climate action, protest over environmental and climate issues
- Media, social media and the environment
- Education and sustainability
- Civil society and climate policy
