SFU Experts on the Environment
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Ryan Allen, assistant professor, health sciences, 604.268.7631; ryan_allen@sfu.ca
Air pollution health effects
Diana Allen, earth sciences, 604.291.3967; diana_allen@sfu.ca
Climate change impacts on water
John Clague, earth sciences, 604.291.4924; john_clague@sfu.ca
Environmental and climate change; earthquakes and tsunamis
Alex Clapp, geography, 604.291.3635; aclapp@sfu.ca
Forestry, resources; role of carbon taxes in climate change policy
Isabelle Côté, biology, 604.377.5323; imcote@sfu.ca
Professor of tropical marine ecology, co-author of new study (Apr 3, in Current Biology) on exploitation of coral reef fisheries: see www.sfu.ca/mediapr/news_releases/archives/news04030701.htm
Mark Jaccard, resource and environmental management, 604.291.4219; mark_jaccard@sfu.ca
Energy, climate change, greenhouse gas, Kyoto accord; #13 on Financial Post’s Climate Change Hot 20 Power List; author of Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clearn and Enduring Energy (2006)
Karen Kohfeld, Canada Research Chair in climate resources and global change, 778.782.7651, kohfield@sfu.ca http://www.rem.sfu.ca/COPElab/
Ken Lertzman, resource/environmental management, 604.291.3067; kenneth_lertzman@sfu.ca
www.rem.sfu.ca/forestry
Forests, fires and climate
Arne Mooers, biology (in Germany at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin until July): 49 030 89001 235; amooers@sfu.ca
Conservation biology, species and extinction
Janet Moore, BC Network and Working Group on Sustainability Education, 604.268.7884; jlmoore@sfu.ca www.walkingthetalk.bc.ca
Nancy Olewiler, economics, 604.291.3442; olewiler@sfu.ca
Environmental economics/policy
Patrick Smith, political science, 604.291.1544 (h), psmith@sfu.ca
Politics and the environment
Tim Takaro, associate professor, health sciences, 604.268.7186; timothy_takaro@sfu.ca
Health-related impacts of climate change
Peter Williams, director, centre for tourism policy research, 604.291.3103; peter_williams@sfu.ca
www.rem.sfu.ca/tourism
Environmental issues, tourism
Mark Winston, biology/dialogue program, 604.268.7894; mark_winston@sfu.ca
Growth of teaching/research programs to develop policies to adapt to climate change
Students:
Dave Redding, 604.338.4991; dredding@sfu.ca
Biology PhD student helping to pioneer EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered), a new method of prioritizing species for conservation. Focus of a major conservation scheme with the London (UK) Zoological Society. www.edgeofexistence.org
Dua’a Riyal, 604.291.4594; driyal@sfu.ca
Biology graduate student who is researching how biotechnology can be used in the breeding of trees to replenish forests http://www.sfu.ca/alumni/our_alumni/outstanding/index.html
Alumni:
Tracey Axelsson, 604.685.1393; tracey@cooperativeauto.net
While a student at SFU, Axelsson created Vancouver’s Co-operative Auto Network, for a course project. It’s now in its 10th year and has grown from four cars to more than 140 and from 16 members to more than 2,600.