Colin J. Brauner
Professor, Dept. of Zoology
The primary goal of my research program is to investigate environmental adaptations (both mechanistic and evolutionary) in relation to gas-exchange, acid-base balance and ion regulation in fish, integrating responses from the molecular, cellular and organismal level. The ultimate goal is to understand how evolutionary pressures have shaped physiological systems among vertebrates and to determine the degree to which physiological systems can adapt/acclimate to natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. This information is crucial for basic biology and understanding the diversity of biological systems, but much of my research conducted to date can also be applied to issues of aquaculture, toxicology and water quality criteria development, as well as fisheries management. My research is conducted largely in North America, but I have collaborations with researchers at the National Institute for Research of the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil where I also conduct research.
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~brauner/wp/
Diane Srivastava
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~brauner/wp/
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Professor, Dept. of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre
Research in the Srivastava Lab centers on fundamental questions in community ecology, including those that help develop the theoretical basis of conservation. We investigate how the interaction of spatial and trophic processes determines which species occur within food webs. We also examine how species loss from these food webs can affect the way ecosystems function. Our lab addresses these questions through a combination of experiments, surveys, and meta-analyses of published data. For experimental tests, we use two naturally contained but miniature ecosystems: bromeliads and moss patches.
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~srivast/
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Jerry SpiegelHisham Zerriffi
Assistant Professor and Ivan Head South/North Research Chair, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Hisham Zerriffi is an Assistant Professor and the Ivan Head South/North Research Chair in the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Dr. Zerriffi’s research is at the intersection of technology, energy and the environment, with a particular focus on rural areas of the developing world. Much of his research focuses on institutional factors impacting the diffusion of new technology, determinants and patterns of household energy choice and welfare implications of rural energy use. Prior to joining the UBC Faculty, Dr. Zerriffi was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. Dr. Zerriffi holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy.
You can find my recent TEDxGeorgieStrait talk on Energy Poverty here:
----------------------------------------Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health
Jerry Spiegel, MA MSc PhD directs the Global Health Research Program at UBC and is co-theme leader of the Global and Indigenous Health theme at SPPH. He was founding President of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research and received the Canadian Public Health Association’s 2011 International Award.
His research focus is on sustainable approaches to promote equity and health, with active projects in Cuba, Ecuador and South Africa. Particular themes of research interest are social determination of health in the context of an ecosystem approach; globalization and health; and the strengthening of knowledge sharing and knowledge translation capacities to promote health equity in low and middle income countries. 
He has published extensively on Cuba’s achievements in public health, building on 15 years of collaborative research in this fascinating country, with a focus on how intersectoral processes and community involvement have contributed to effective environmental health programs. From 2004 to 2011, he led the interdisciplinary “Sustainably Managing Environmental Health Risk in Ecuador“ collaboration linking UBC with 4 Ecuadorian universities – and leads a recently awarded 5 year research program titled “Food systems and health equity in an era of globalization: Think, Eat and Grow Green Globally (TEG3)” that brings together researchers and knowledge users in Canada and Ecuador. He is also a co-Prinicipal Investigator of the 3 year “Meeting capacity-building and scaling-up challenges to sustainably prevent and control dengue in Machala, Ecuador” project begun in 2010 as part of an internationally funded Latin American network. A number of UBC students are undertaking or have completed thesis work in Latin America with his supervision, and he has led a number of student groups to Cuba and Ecuador over the past 10 years.
Wayne Maddison
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Zoology and Botany
I grew up in Ontario and Alberta, and did my undergraduate at the University of Toronto, but found myself living in the U.S. for more than two decades as I did graduate school (Harvard University) and then my first faculty position (University of Arizona). I came back to Canada, to UBC, in 2003. I study the diversity and evolutionary history of jumping spiders, and the theoretical principles of how evolutionary history is interpreted. I have done field work throughout the tropics, from New Guinea and Gabon to Ecuador and Mexico. Most of my tropical field work has been in Ecuador. I am reasonably fluent in Spanish.
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Professor and Canada Research Chair, Zoology and Botany
