Currently Open Research Projects
Position Title | Supervisor(s) | Faculty | Research Classification |
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Leveraging 3D observations to modernize growth and yield forecasting | Nicholas Charles Coops | Faculty of Forestry | Other computer and information sciences, Ecological impacts of climate change |
Postdoctoral Fellowship available in Applied Catalysis for Syngas Conversion | Kevin Smith | Faculty of Applied Science | Chemical engineering |
Postdoctoral fellow position - AI for digital lung auscultation analyses | Kendall Ho | Faculty of Medicine | Artificial intelligence engineering, Critical care medicine and emergency medicine |
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroimaging | Luke Clark, Catharine Winstanley | Faculty of Arts | Psychology of addiction, Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks, Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects, n.e.c., Judgement and decision making |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Single Cell Genomics, Molecular Biology | Samuel Aparicio | Faculty of Medicine | Genomics, Molecular genetics, Cancer genetics |
Postdoctoral Research Fellows - Max Planck-UBC-UTokyo Center for Quantum Materials | Faculty of Science | Condensed matter physics | |
Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Sarcoma Biology | Torsten Nielsen | Faculty of Medicine | Mechanisms of carcinogenesis, Cancer drug development and therapeutics, Cancer genetics, Cancer molecular targets, Solid cancer tumours |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Experimental Dermatology | David Granville | Faculty of Medicine | Dermatology |
Postdoctoral Fellow - Global Carbon Economy and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes | Harish Krishnan | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Bilevel optimization and game theory, Operations and supply chain management, Environment and natural resources economics |
Postdoc Teaching Fellow - Introduction to Clinical, Patient Oriented and Translational Research (MEDI 503) | Cheryl Gregory-Evans, Alice Mui | Faculty of Medicine | Medical, health and life sciences |
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Faculty Members Recruiting Students
This list shows a selection of faculty members who are currently looking for new graduate students. They may have specified particular projects they wish to fill. Please ensure to review the departmental profile of each faculty member to learn more about their research interests and to ensure a good fit to your intended studies at UBC.
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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Zhou | Youwen | Skin Cancer; Skin Disorders; Lymphoma; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genomics; Molecular Genetics; Transgenic Model; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; Biomarkers in cancer and inflammation; Genetics and genomics of skin diseases; Melanoma, vitiligo, hyperhidrosis, and skin lymphoma; Innovative therapeutic development | Any time / year round |
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Zhang | Yuelin | Plant biology; Plant immunity; Salicylic acid signaling; Systemic acquired resistance; ROS signaling; MAPK signaling; plant immune receptors | Any time / year round |
Systemic acquired resistance, SA signaling, ROS signaling, MAPK signaling, signal transduction pathways downstream of plant immune receptors |
Zhang | Jenny Li | Accounting; Economics and business administration; Management information systems; Finance and Accounting; Financial reporting, corporate disclosure, restatements, pension |
Financial reporting, corporate disclosure, restatements, disclosure of foreign firms listed in the U.S. |
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Zhang | Wei | Public and population health; Health Policies; Pharmacoeconomics; Economic evaluation; Health economics | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Work productivity loss measurement; Economic evaluation of health interventions |
Zhang | Gaoheng | Intercultural and Ethnic Relationships; Cultural Exchanges; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Media and Society; Media Ethics; Media and Democratization; Migration Studies; Mobility Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Gender and Masculinity Studies; Race Theory; Film and Media Studies; Rhetoric and Communication Studies; Cultural Theory; Italian-Chinese relations; Italy's global networks; Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture | Any time / year round |
Migration, postcolonial, and tourism studies relating to Italy and Europe; |
Zerriffi | Hisham | Forestry sciences; Biomass (Energy); Energy Transformation and Energy Using; International development; Environment and Society; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; energy poverty | Any time / year round |
I do not have current funding for additional graduate students or post-doctoral scholars but am generally interested in modeling of energy access in developing countries, assessment of socio-ecological linkages in energy use, household choice and welfare implications related to energy use, and synergies and tradeoffs in meeting sustainable development goals in forestry, energy and land-use. ... Read More |
Yoon | Dongwook | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; design; Educational Technologies; Augmented reality; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); Educational technology; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Interaction and interface design; Multimodal interaction; Speech, touch, multitouch, stylus, gesture, mixed-reality, 3d interaction; Virtual Reality | Any time / year round |
My research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer-mediated communication (CMC), and educational technology. My primary research focus is to build rich collaboration systems that offer expressive multimodal interactions, i.e., interactions through multiple communication channels (e.g., speech, gesture, and grasp). My... Read More |
Yip | Calvin | Biochemistry; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genetic Diseases; Enzymes and Proteins; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Molecular Structure and Sizing; Imaging; Chromatin modification / epigenetic regulation; Molecular etiologies of rare diseases; Regulation of autophagy degradation | 2021 |
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Yadav | Vikramaditya | Chemical engineering; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Bioactive Molecules; Biocatalysis; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biomass (Energy); Biomaterials; Bioprocess engineering; Bioremediation; Biotechnology; drug delivery; Drug discovery & development; Medical biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials; Synthetic biology; Technoeconomics; Tissue Engineering; Vaccines | Any time / year round |
My research group utilizes metabolic & enzyme engineering to investigate and customize novel biosynthetic enzymes that can convert biomass-derived feedstocks into value-added chemicals. We have published highly acclaimed papers on model-guided enzyme engineering, process development, enzyme discovery using metagenomics and engineering metabolic control schemes that bridge with bioprocess... Read More |
Yada | Rickey | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Other biological sciences; Food science; Food protein chemistry; Structure-function relationships; Enzymes; aspartic proteases | Any time / year round |
Current research interests include: the structure-function relationships of food and non-food related enzymes using molecular biology and various physico-chemical techniques (eg. circular dichroism spectroscopy, micro-calorimeter, small angle neutron scattering, ultracentrifugation, enzyme kinetics, etc.), carbohydrate metabolism in potatoes as it related to process quality as well as various... Read More |
Wylie | Alison | Philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy of archaeology; philosophy of science; philosophy of the social and historial sciences; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; research ethics (non-medical); science studies | Any time / year round |
Feminist standpoint theory; community based collaborative practice; Indigenous/science; content effects of systemic inequities in the sciences. |
Wu | Lyndia | Biomechanical engineering; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Biomedical signal processing; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Injury biomechanics; Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep Biomechanics; Sensors and Instrumentation; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Wearable Sensing | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Please refer to simpl.mech.ubc.ca for project areas and opportunities. |
Wright | Handel | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; (post)multiculturalism and multicultural education; Africana studies; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies; Educational Approaches; identity, citizenship and belonging; postcolonialism and decolonization; Transcultural Studies; Youth Studies | Any time / year round |
(post)multiculturalism; youth identity and belonging; cultural studies and education; Africana identity; comparative and international education |
Woody | Sheila | Psychology and cognitive sciences; Mental Health and Society; Anxiety; cognition; Community Health / Public Health; Specific Social Services (Clientele); Hoarding |
The Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding, which I direct, has two lines of research that present opportunities for graduate students. One area of inquiry is in the cognitive underpinnings of hoarding disorder, and the other is on community-based interventions for hoarding. |
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Withers | Stephen | Enzymes and Proteins; Blood Substitutes; Organic Molecules and Biomolecules; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Diabetes; Drug development; enzyme inhibition; carbohydrates; glycobiology; metagenomics; directed evolution |
Development of novel therapeutics for diabetes and lysosomal storage diseases |
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Winstanley | Catharine | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Trauma / Injuries; Traumatic Brain Injury |
Exploring the neural, neurochemical and molecular basis of impulsivity and risky decision making, particularly as these cognitive traits relate to addiction disorders. Most of the work we do uses rat models of cognitive behaviour, but we are starting to translate our findings into human subjects. |
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Wilton | Steven | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Integrated Circuits; Computer Architecture; Computer Hardware; Computer-Aided Design Algorithms; Field-Programmable Gate Arrays; High-Level Synthesis | Any time / year round |
Debug for FPGAs FPGA Architectures CAD for FPGAs |
Williams | Ben | Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory | 2021 |
The A1- and classical homotopy theory of algebraic groups, and their applications to algebra. |
Wellington | Cheryl Lea | Alzheimer's Disease; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Trauma / Injuries; Lipid/Lipoprotein analysis; Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials; Traumatic Brain Injury; Tissue Engineering; Biomarkers; drug discovery; Apolipoprotein E; Cerebrovascular function | Any time / year round |
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Weis | Dominique | Geology; Earth Structure and Composition; Geodynamics; Chemical Pollutants; Earth Sciences; Environmental geochemistry; Geochemistry; High-precision/sensitivity geochemical analyses; Indigenous studies; Oceanic islands and mantle plumes | 2021 |
Geochemistry of the Hawaiian mantle plume - trace element modelling, time evolution and relation to the deep mantle geophysical anomalies. Honey, salmon as bioindicators - see also UBC Excellence Research Cluster, BeeHIVE: https://beehive.ubc.ca/ Indigenous/Science - see also UBC Excellence Research Cluster, Indigenous/Science at UBC:... Read More |
Weijs | Steven | Civil engineering; Water; Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs; Drinking Water; Fresh Water; Information; Hydroelectricity; Ice and Snow; control of water systems; droughts; experimental hydrology; floods; Hydrological Prediction; Hydrology; information theory; mountain hydrology; sensors; uncertainty; water resources management | Any time / year round |
Projects regarding new measurement techniques for catchment hydrology |
Weidberg | Hilla | Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Cell Signaling; Genes; Genotype and Phenotype; Enzymes and Proteins; Nucleic Acids; Cell Biology; Genetics; Biochemistry; molecular biology; Organelle biology; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial stress; Protein quality control; Metabolism; Neurodegenerative diseases | Any time / year round |
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Wei | Juncheng | Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; applied and geometric analysis; Mathematical biology; Nonlinear partial differential equations; reaction-diffusion systems; singular perturbations and concentration phenomena; singularity formations in fluids | Any time / year round |
De Giorgi conjectures, fractional equations, blow-ups in nonlinear parabolic and elliptic equations |
Weber | Alexander | Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Brain Diseases; Cerebral Palsy; Childhood Brain Tumors; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; MRI Scans; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury | Any time / year round |
Fractal Analysis of fMRI Signals Cerebrovascular Health of Spinal Cord Injury Cerebral Metabolic Rate of Oxygen (CMRO2) Mapping by Combining Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and Quantitative Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Imaging (qBOLD) Using Advanced MRI Techniques FLAIR2 and QSM to Identify and Classify Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) |
Webb | P. Taylor | Education systems; Philosophy; Education governance and education politics; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Micropolitics; Biopolitics; Subjectivity | 2022 |
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Wasteneys | Geoff | Plant biology; Cell signaling; Hormones and Growth Factors; Molecular Genetics; Cellulose Biosynthesis; Microtubule Dynamics and Organization; Plant Cell Walls in Cell Shape and Tissue Function; Plant Growth and Development; Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress; Trafficking of Membrane Receptors and Transporters | Any time / year round |
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Wasserman | Wyeth | Medical, health and life sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Creation of computational methods for the analysis of genome sequences (bioinformatics); Study of cis-regulatory elements controlling gene transcription; Applied analyses of genome sequences (genomics); Indigenous genomics | Any time / year round |
Gene Regulation Amongst the most important challenges of this era of life science research is understanding the regulation of gene expression, a process that allows an incredible diversity of cells to be produced from the same genome sequence. During development and across physiological conditions, a set of proteins, called Transcription Factors (TFs), interact with the... Read More |
Wang | Fei | Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; comparative policy studies; Education and Training Management; Educational administration and leadership; Ideology and Social Policy; Leadership; Social Contract and Social Justice; social justice and diversity; the role of the school principals |
My research lies in the areas of educational leadership and administration, social justice and diversity, “subversive” leadership, leadership in cross-cultural settings, and educational policy studies. I explore how principals negotiate policies and practices that they consider socially unjust to students and how they “creatively” cope with conflicts between moral and ethical obligations and... Read More |
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Wachs | Anthony | Fluidization and fluid mechanics; Process control and simulation in chemical engineering; Numerical computation; Fluid mechanics; Particle-laden flows; Non Newtonian flows; Heat and mass transfer; Numerical simulation; High performance computing; Multi-scale modelling | Any time / year round |
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von Bergmann | Hsingchi | Social sciences; assessment; PBL; Teacher Beliefs & Identity; Online Teaching and Learning; Professionalism | 2022 |
COVID-19 and Science Literacy Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education population oral health Health Sciences Education Assessment Admission/Selection |
Vincent | Amanda | Marine Environment; Fishery Resources; Sustainable Development; Protected Areas; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; ocean conservation; threatened marine species, especially seahorses and their relatives; marine protected areas; Small-scale fisheries; nonselective fisheries, especially trawling; wildlife trade; community-based conservation; citizen science; multilateral environmental agreements | Any time / year round |
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Victoriano | Ramon Antonio | Caribbean literatures; Latin American literatures; Contemporary literatures; Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story | Any time / year round |
Blackness in the Hispanic Caribbean. Cultural History of Hispanic Caribbean printed media. |
Vedam | Saraswathi | Gestation / Parturition; Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights; Right and Access to Information; Home Care Services; Law and Health; Social Contract and Social Justice; Community Health / Public Health; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Family and Child Services; Home Birth; Place of Birth; Provider Attitudes; Respectful Maternity Care; Midwifery; Interprofessional relationships; Person-Centered Care; Patient Autonomy; Institutional Racism in Maternity Care; Maternal and Newborn Outcomes; Maternity care for diverse populations; Transdisciplinary engagement in health care; Mistreatment | Any time / year round |
Active analysis and knowledge translation projects: qualitative and quantitative data generated by participatory maternity care research: Changing Childbirth in BC, Giving Voice to Mothers - US (participatory research on experiences of maternity care and disparities), Access and Integration Maternity Care Mapping study (links between regulatory frameworks and disparities), Giving Voice to... Read More |
Vanderwal | Tamara | Functional Neuroimaging; child psychiatric disorders | Any time / year round |
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Van Raamsdonk | Catherine | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; cancer genetics; Developmental Genetics; Human Cancer Genetics; Melanocytes; Melanoma; Molecular Genetics; Mouse Genetics and Transgenesis; Oncogenesis; Pigmentation | 2021 |
Cancer cell metastasis. Neural crest cell development. Molecular analysis of melanocytes and melanoma cells from mouse models: transcriptomics, bioinformatics, proteomics. Primary cell culture, FACS, Immunohistochemistry/Immunofluorescence. Therapeutics and signaling pathways in melanoma. |
Van Petegem | Filip | Biochemistry; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Genetic Diseases; Calcium signaling; Cardiac arrhythmia; electrical signaling; electrophysiology; Epilepsy; Ion channels; Structural Biology | Any time / year round |
1) Muscle excitation-contraction coupling: How does an electrical signal in a muscle cell get transmitted into contraction? We investigate the membrane proteins involved in this process (L-type calcium channels, Ryanodine Receptors), as well as the various proteins that modulate these channels. Projects include solving crystal and cryo-EM structures of these channels in complex with the... Read More |
Van de Panne | Michiel | Computer Science and Statistics; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Robotics and Automation; simulation of human movement; computer animation; Robotics; deep reinforcement learning; motor control; computer graphics | Any time / year round |
simulation of agile human motion, robotics, motion planning, sensorimotor control, dexterous manipulation, computer animation, machine learning, computer graphics, novel interfaces |
Upham | David Chester | Chemical engineering; Energy Transformation and Energy Using; catalysis; Energy; Greenhouse gas mitigation | Any time / year round |
CO2-free conversion of greenhouse gases into chemicals, fuels, and products
I am looking for one postdoc to start on an industrially funded project approximetaly January 1 2021.
I am also considering a highly qualified PhD student to work on liquid heterogeneous catalysis.
Please include the position you are applying to in your application. |
Turvey | Stuart | Immunology; Microbiology; Asthma; Immune System; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Precision Medicine; Primary Immune Deficiencies | Any time / year round |
Genetics of Susceptibility to Childhood Infection Until very recently, clinical immunologists have focused most attention on patients with a ‘noisy clinical phenotype’—multiple, severe and recurrent infections. Indeed, the origin of primary immunodeficiencies is generally attributed to Bruton’s 1952 description of X-linked agammaglobulinemia in a boy whose repeated pneumococcal infections... Read More |
Tseng | Michelle | Plant biology; Zoology; Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Evolutionary Biology | 2021 |
1. How do species interactions mediate adaptation to new environments? Global climate change is resulting in increases in mean and variation in temperature. Concurrently, organisms are experiencing novel environments via land-use change and eutrophication. Can organisms adapt fast enough to respond to these changing environments? Ongoing projects: How do species interactions such as... Read More |
Traboulsee | Tony | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; multiple sclerosis; neuromyelitls optica (NMO) | Any time / year round |
Image analysis |
Tessier | Anne-Michelle | Linguistics; Constraint-based grammars; L2 production and perception in childhood; Language Acquisition; Lexical avoidance; Phonology; Prosodic processing with cochlear implants; Shitgibbons; U-shaped development | Any time / year round |
Constraint-based approaches to phonological development Phonological learnability L1 morpho-phonological learning |
Taylor | Eric | Genomics; Evolutionary Genetics; biodiversity; speciation; fishes; conservation; biogeography |
Genetics of speciation in sympatric char; population genomics; conservation |
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Taubert | Stefan | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription | Any time / year round |
We study how cells, tissues, and organisms adapt to stresses such as hypoxia, oxidative stress, starvation, heavy metal exposure, and others. We investigate these stresses and stress responses because they contribute to or even cause human pathologies, including cancers, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders. In this context, we are especially interested in gene regulation by the Mediator... Read More |
Taghipour | Fariborz | Clean Technologies; Solar and Wind Energy; Drinking Water; solar fuels; Artificial Photosynthetic Systems; UV Photoreactors; UV-LED Reactors; UV Microplasma; Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
Artificial Photosynthetic Systems: Artificial photosynthesis involves capturing energy from the sun and storing it in the form of chemical fuels. The focus of this research is to create engineered solar fuel generators for the photocatalytic production of hydrogen, a leading candidate for the fuel of the future. Our team develops photoelectrochemical cells and multifunctional photocatalysts... Read More |
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Suttle | Curtis | Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses | Any time / year round |
Generally students will need to be funded through external scholarships, or be funded through a University Graduate Fellowship, or other UBC Fellowship. |
Sunderland | Terence | Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management | 2021, 2022 |
Forests and food security; sustainable landscape management; biodiversity; rural livelihoods and markets; ecosystem services; non-timber forest products |
Subramaniam | Sriram | Medical, health and life sciences; cryo-EM; cryo-electron microscopy; Cryoelectron Microscopy; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Advanced Electron Microscopy; drug discovery; Drug-design; Focused ion beams; Electron tomography; Tomography; Single particle imaging; Single particle analysis; structural bioinformatics; Structural Biology; COVID-19 therapeutic design | 2022 |
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Stull | Roland | Meteorology and weather; weather; Meteorology; atmospheric science; numerical weather prediction; clean energy meteorology; storms; transportation weather; forest fire weather; weather disasters; atmospheric boundary layers; aviation meteorology | Any time / year round |
Weather forecasting for clean energy (wind, hydro, solar). Weather forecasting for transportation (shipping, highways, railroads) Weather forecasting for forest fires (fire-atmosphere interaction, smoke dispersion) Forecasting for other weather-related disasters (landslides, debris flows, floods, avalanches, windstorms, air pollution, etc.) Special projects (e.g.,... Read More |
Stephens | Christopher | Philosophy; philosophy of biology; philosophy of science; rationality; scientific philosophy; Why be rational? | Any time / year round |
philosophical debates about evolutionary biology, topics in philosophy of science concerning the nature of evidence, the nature and justification of rationality. Evolutionary approaches to philosophical topics. |