Agriculture
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Dr. Thorsten Knipfer, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Agriculture
- Drought
- Flooding
- Crop Physiology
- Water requirements
- Roots
- Leaf gas exchange
- Hazelnut
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Sean Smukler, PhD
Associate Professor
- Agriculture
- environment
- sustainable development
- ecosystem services
- biological diversity
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Prof. Hannah Wittman, PhD
Professor
- Food security
- local food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- social economy
- community development
- rights to produce and consume food
- agrarian reform
- food sovereignty
- agroecology
- organic agriculture
- seed sovereignty
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Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu, PhD, PEng
Professor
- Resource recovery
- waste minimization
- bioenergy
- anaerobic digestion
- dark fermentation
- emerging pretreatment technologies (i.e. conventional heating, microwave, radio frequency, sonication, chemical treatment, high-pressure homogenization)
- fate and transformation of micropollutants
- modelling of biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes
- hydrothermal liquefaction
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James Vercammen, PhD
Professor
- agricultural commodity prices
- food prices
- agricultural markets
- agricultural production risk
- agriculture and the environment
- agri-environmental contracts
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Tara Moreau, PhD
Associate Director, UBC Botanical Garden
- sustainable agriculture
- organic agriculture
- urban agriculture
- community-based research
- biodiversity
- integrated pest management
- best management practices
- climate change, mitigation, adaptation, resilience
- food policy
- non-profit organizations
- social enterprise
- biological diversity
- sustainable development
- crop farming
- global warming
- greenhouse effect
- greenhouse gases
- environmental education
- crop wild relatives
- adaptation planning
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John Wagner, PhD
Associate Professor
- Environmental anthropology
- political ecology
- water
- water governance
- agriculture
- food security
- food sovereignty
- Columbia River Treaty
- Columbia River Basin
- local ecological knowledge
- community-based resource management
- language documentation
- Okanagan Valley
- Creston Valley
- Columbia Basin Project area
- British Columbia
- Washington State
- Papua New Guinea
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Marie-Claude Fortin, M.Sc., Ph.D
Lecturer
- Canadian dairy system
- dairy supply management system
- genetically modified foods