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Research Topics by Faculty

Below is a very rough break down of research faculty by field of study. If you are a prospective graduate student you should look more closely at each faculty member's home page as there are a lot of crossover from one area to another.

Notes: [1] (Not currently accepting students.) [2] Apply to Chemistry Department.
Geology
BUSTIN, R.M. Unconventional petroleum resources, gas shales, oil shales, oil producing shales, coalbed methane
DIPPLE, G.M. Metamorphic Geology / Fluid-Rock Interaction / Hydrothermal Systems
GRIMM, K.A. Earth's Environmental Evolution/Geophysiology/Laminated Sediments/Phosphorites (Not currently accepting students.)[1]
GROAT, L.A. Mineralogy / Crystallography / Granitic Pegmatites / Environmental Mineralogy
HART, C. Economic Geology / Exploration Targeting / Regional Metallogeny / MDRU
HICKEY, K. Mineral Deposits / Thermochronology Fluid Flow / Structural Geology
KENNEDY, L. Structural Geology
KOPYLOVA, M.G.Mantle Petrology / Diamonds and Diamondiferous Rocks
MORTENSEN, J. Geochronology / Cordilleran Geology / Tectonics / Mineral Deposits
RUSSELL, J.K. Igneous Petrology / Volcanology / Geochemistry
SCOATES, J. Mineral Deposits / Petrology / Geochemistry
SMITH, Paul Paleontology / Jurassic Geology / Stratigraphy[1]
WEIS, D. Petrology / Geochemistry / Flood basalts and oceanic islands / Geochronology / Environmental Geochemistry
Engineering Geology & Hydrology
BECKIE, R.D. Groundwater Hydrology / Geotechnical Engineering
EBERHARDT, E Rock Mechanics / Geotechnical Engineering / Landslides
HUNGR, O. Engineering Geology (M.A.Sc., M.Eng., and Ph.D. only) [1]
JOHNSON, M. Ecohydrology and Watershed Biogeochemistry
MAYER, U. Groundwater / Hydrology / Reactive Solute Transport
SMITH, Les Groundwater Hydrology
Geophysics
BALMFORTH, N. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
BOSTOCK, M.G. Earthquake Seismology / Elastic Wave Propagation
HEARN, E. Lithosphere Geodynamics / Active Tectonics
HERRMANN, F. Reflection Seismology / Inversion Theory / Signal Processing / Wavelet Theory / Wave Propagation
JELLINEK, M. Volcanology / Geodynamics / Planetary Science
JOHNSON, C.L. Thermal Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets
OLDENBURG, D.W. Inverse theory / Electromagnetic Geophysics
Oceanography
     Chemical Oceanography
ANDERSEN, R.J. Chemical / Geochemical Oceanography (Please apply to Chemistry Department.)[2]
FRANCOIS, R. Chemical Oceanography / Sediment Geochemistry / Marine Biogeochemical Cycles / Paleoceanography
ORIANS, K.J. Trace metals in seawater: biogeochemical processes
     Biological Oceanography
MALDONADO, M. Phytoplankton Trace Metal Physiology / Biological Oceanography / Marine Biogeochemistry
PAKHOMOV, E.A. Biological & Fisheries Oceanography / Antarctic Ecology
SUTTLE, C. Bacteria and Viruses in Marine Systems
TORTELL, P. Biological Oceanography
     Physical Oceanography
ALLEN, S.E. Ocean and Atmosphere Dynamics: Laboratory, Numerical and Field Studies
PAWLOWICZ, R.A. Physical Oceanography and Limnology / Instrumentation / Coastal systems
Atmosphere / Climate / Global Environmental Change
AUSTIN, P. Cloud Physics / Boundary Layer
CLARKE, G.K.C. Glaciology / Physics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets [1]
HSIEH, W.W. Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Dynamics / Machine Learning
SCHOOF, C. Glaciology / Fluid Dynamics
STEYN, D. Air Pollution / Boundary Layers
STULL, R. Numerical Weather Prediction / Mesoscale Meteorology[1]
Other UBC Faculty who accept students in Programs Administered by Earth and Ocean Sciences
BLACK, A. Climatic Variability / Carbon & Water Balances / Biometeorology
CHRISTEN, A. Experimental Micrometeorology / Surface-Atmosphere Interactions / Atmospheric Turbulence
McKENDRY, I.G. Air Pollution / Boundary Layers / Synoptic Climatology
NOVAK, M.D. Soil Atmosphere Interactions/Turbulence/Boundary Layers / hydrology

Notes: [1] (Not currently accepting students.)   [2] Apply to Chemistry Department.

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