On Earth

Francis is a geoscience education specialist in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at UBC. Before that, he spent 10 years teaching geophysics and supporting geophysical inversion research and technology transfer with the UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility. In 1987 he completed an MSc in geophysics and glaciology, then worked for 12 years as a professional geophysicist in instrumentation, minera...

Jacqueline Weston is a Professional Engineer with a Master's Degree in Applied Science and certification as a Project Management Professional. Her 31 years of experience include 11 years in private consulting as a process engineer and project manager, and twenty years as a municipal engineer with progressively responsible management positions. Jacqueline is currently the Operations Manager for the...

Jim Haggart is a Research Scientist at the Vancouver office of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) specializing in Jurassic-Cretaceous stratigraphy and macrofaunal paleontology. He obtained graduate degrees from University of California prior to moving to Ottawa to join the GSC. Jim has led geological mapping programs in Haida Gwaii, the Coast Mountains and central Interior regions of British Co...

Lindsey Heagy is joining EOAS as an Assistant Professor this July. She completed her BSc in geophysics at the University of Alberta in 2012 and her PhD at UBC in 2018, where she was a Vanier Scholar. Following the completion of her PhD, she was a Postdoctoral researcher in the Statistics Department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in data science and inverse theory, and she is interested...

Mark Jellinek is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is an internationally-recognized geophysicist who works on problems in magmatic and volcanic processes and hazards, geodynamics, long-term climate change, surface processes and the evolution of Earth and other rocky planets. Mark is deeply committed to education and out...

Roland Stull is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the UBC department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. During his 26 years at UBC, his focus has been on numerical weather prediction - using large computers to forecast the weather. His research team of about 15 scientists and students study renewable energy meteorology (wind, hydro, & solar power), weather disasters (forest fires, wind...

Andy is a professional geologist living in Vancouver who is tailoring his career to bring change to the minerals exploration industry. Since 2014, he has established his consulting business, SGDS Hive, which takes on graduate geoscientists and mentors them through a variety of exploration projects to help engage and educate the next generation of geologists. He also started a non-profit society, B...

Dr. Kendra Chritz looks at the chemistry of ancient biological material (teeth, bones, soils) to tell what past environments were like. Her particular interest is in the intersecting interactions between people and their ecosystems over time: how the environments we evolved in made us who we are, how prone we are to modifying our environments, what we’re doing to environments now. Because of her p...

Catherine Johnson is a professor of geophysics at UBC, Vancouver and a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson. Her research group works on problems in planetary science using data returned by recent and older NASA missions, including the Apollo missions to the Moon. Outside work she practices and teaches yoga (RYT 500) and spends time outside with her family and Bernese Mounta...

Kirsten Hodge is a volcanologist and science educator. She is currently the Director of the Pacific Museum of Earth (PME), one of the University of British Columbia’s main outreach hubs. At the PME, she oversees how the museum engages, excites, and educates the UBC community as well as local youth and teachers. Her work at the PME provides a link between the fundamental science that shapes our pla...

Dr. Meigan Aronson was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on September 1, 2018. Prior to her arrival at UBC, Dr. Aronson served as Professor of Physics and Dean of the College of Science at Texas A&M University, where she held appointments in the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on th...

There is a lot of diversity under the science umbrella and not all scientists wear lab coats. On Earth showcases the people behind the science — who they are, why they got into their field, with tidbits of advice for people considering a career in science. Daniel Gowryluk explores the unexpected & interesting sides of science through conversations with researchers and educators about their work On...

Simon Peacock is a geology professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at UBC. Prof. Peacock joined UBC in 2006 and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2006 to 2018. He earned BS and MS degrees in Geology from MIT (1981) and a PhD in Geology from UCLA (1985). From 1985 to 2006, he was a geology professor and administrator at Arizona State University. Prof. Pe...

Dr. Michael Lipsen is an oceanographer and environmentalist who has been teaching in the Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences department at UBC since 1999. Although his original research interests included looking at where diatoms hid the loose carbon dioxide that was lurking in every environment, he is now happy instructing undergraduates on the beauty and complexity of the marine world around the...

Sarah is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia, studying earthquakes along the Queen Charlotte Fault offshore British Columbia. She is primarily interested in the mechanisms that drive earthquakes, fault-magma interactions, and evolution of plate boundaries. She analyzes earthquake waves to figure out the kin...

Megan Russell is a planetary scientist in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. After completing a BSc in Space Science at York University, she moved to Vancouver to work at an Earth remote sensing company before starting her MSc in Planetary Science at UBC with Dr. Catherine L. Johnson. She uses observations collected from orbit around other...

Rachel is an Assistant Professor in Climate Dynamics in the EOAS Department. She studied physics at the University of Cambridge, before completing her PhD in Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London. She has recently moved to Vancouver after working as a post-doc in Seattle (US) and then Barcelona (Spain), and is excited to be here at UBC. Rachel enjoys climate outreach and talking to the pu...

Graham Young has degrees in Biology and Geology from the University of New Brunswick and University of Toronto. After completing a Ph. D. at UNB, he carried out postdoctoral work in Newcastle, England. Graham moved to Winnipeg in 1990 to do research at the University of Manitoba, and has worked at the Manitoba Museum since 1993. At the Museum, Graham is responsible for building collections, dealin...

Mika McKinnon is a geophysicist, disaster researcher, and scifi scientist. Mika is an Adjunct Professor in the department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, and a research scientist at the SETI Institute with Project ESPRESSO where she works on landslides on asteroids and other small bodies in space. As your friendly neighbourhood geoscientist, she offers tasting notes on rocks, tweaks party...

Xueya Lu is from China, Xinjiang province. She moved to Canada in 2013 and began her Master's studies at the University of British Columbia in 2017. Xueya's thesis project focuses on characterizing the reactivity of ultramafic mine tailings for low-cost carbon capture utilization and storage. To do this, Xueya conducts laboratory-scale kinetic dissolution experiments and geochemical numerical mode...

Manar is a research scientist in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in understanding the evolution of different parts of the solar system and its constituents. Her research career started with studying the interactions between Mercury’s magnetic field and the solar wind, and continued through her involvement as a scientifi...

Katrin is a master’s student at in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia working in the carbon mineralization group with Prof. Greg Dipple. She studies the origin and serpentinization of ultramafic rocks in the Decar area in central British Columbia and the formation of brucite and awaruite. Specifically these minerals for their potential for...

Johan (Yoshi) Gilchrist was born and raised in New Jersey, USA, and moved to Vancouver, BC to study Geophysics at UBC in 2008. Since then, he has carved a niche for himself in the field of volcanology by studying the rise and fall of volcanic rocks, pumice, ash and gas in the atmosphere and oceans during explosive eruptions by using laboratory, field and computer based methods. Outside of academia...

Dr. Craig Poku is an atmospheric and climate scientist based at the University of Leeds. He completed a degree in Mathematics at King’s College London, where he graduated with a 1st Class Honours in 2014. Following this, he went onto a completing a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 2019, where he focused on improving our understanding on fog microphysics over the UK. His current work focuses on impro...

Kimberly is the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences' Administrative and Office Assistant. With several years of customer service and administrative experience, Kimberly has an eye for detail and a desire to learn and to help. In her free time, Kimberly can be found attempting to stand on her hands.