Experts

– Decision support systems (model driven and data driven);
– Component-based software development;
– Creative higher education.

– Forest hydrology and ecology;
– Eco-hydrological processes;
– Forest disturbance and watershed processes;
– Cumulative hydrological impacts in large forested watersheds;
– Forest changes and carbon processes;
– Watershed ecosystems and integrated management.

Wildlife ecology, large mammals, conservation, deer, elk, bears, wolves, antelope, leopards, predators, human-wildlife conflict, ecology, biodiversity, road ecology, wildlife-vehicle collisions, road kill, wildlife corridors, wildlife management, science communication, citizen science, restoration, national parks, forestry, ranching, biological diversity, wild animals.

– Earth and planetary geomorphology;
– Watersheds, rivers, and floodplains;
– Basin analysis;
– Fluvial biogeochemistry.

– Radio, optical, and computational astronomy;
– Interstellar gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence in and around the Milky Way;
– Photoionization and radiative transfer in interstellar gas;
– High velocity clouds;
– Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).

– Chemistry education: computational chemistry, experiment development for physical chemistry education, atmospheric and water chemistry;
– Modelling of interfacial interactions: molecular simulation of liquid, solid, gas, and interfacial phases;

– Discrete geometry;
– Realization spaces of polytopes and matroids;
– Interaction of problems in combinatorics with applied algebraic geometry and optimization;
– Equiangular lines and combinatorial problems arising from applications to digital communications.

– Neuroimmunology;
– Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases;
– Glial cell biology;
– Cellular and molecular pharmacology;
– Method development for protecting neurons from age-related deterioration;
– Signaling between different cell types of the central nervous system;
– Problem-solving skills of students and effectiveness of alternative instructional techniques.

– Radiation oncology;
– Raman spectroscopy;
– 3D radiation dosimetry;
– Quantum mechanics;
– Data and image processing.

– Artificial intelligence/machine learning with emphasis on explainable AI/ML and quantum machine learning;
– Data mining and analytics, safety and security of cyber physical systems;
– Graph theoretic analysis of complex systems;
– Decision making under uncertainty.

– Design of next-generation user interfaces;
– Human-computer interactions;
– Immersive analytics;
– Data visualization;
– Augmented and virtual reality.

– Learning analytics;
– Computer science education;
– Decision making under uncertainty;
– Probabilistic user modeling;
– Human-computer interaction cost models;
– Experiment design and analysis.

– Cell signaling;
– Molecular biology.

– Metamorphic petrology;
– Tectonics & microstructure;
– Evolution of planetary lithosphere and electron-beam microscopy.

– Algebraic number theory: evaluating indices of number fields of various degree, constructing monogenic number fields, factoring prime ideals, normal integral bases;
– Elliptic curves: finding parametric families of elliptic curves with non-zero ran, tau and theta congruent numbers.

– Plant ecophysiology;
– Plant-biotic interactions;
– Plant secondary metabolism;
– Genome-wide association mapping;
– Functional trait evolution and evolutionary ecology;
– Crop biodiversity and crop-wild relatives.

– Radiation oncology;
– Radiation biophysics.

– Low-valent main group compounds;
– Small molecule activation;
– Conjugated materials.

– Hydrogeology and vadose zone processes;
– Regional groundwater resources;
– Surface water and groundwater interactions;
– Agricultural irrigation efficiency, nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas production;
– Acid rock drainage and mine reclamation; soil physics;
– Geoscience education.

– General relativity;
– Black holes;
– String theory.

– Chemical and physical processes at solid surfaces;
– Phase transitions;
– Molecular computer simulations;
– Heterogeneous catalysis;
– Functional surfaces;
– Nanoscience.

– Hydrological effects of forest management and land use change;
– Effects of wildfire on hydrology and erosion;
– Effects of fast-growing timber plantations on stream flow (water yield and low flows);
– Analysis of paired catchment experiments.

– Gut health and immunity;
– Intestinal microbiome;
– Dietary intervention in ulcerative colitis patients;
– Gut-brain axis;
– Novel live biotherapeutic products for the treatment of gut inflammation.

– Combinatorics with a focus on graph colouring problems;
– Discrete optimization with a focus on MIP/constraint programming solutions for the high-stakes testing industry.

– Optimal risk management strategies in neuroscience;
– Risk management in finance.

– Biogeochemistry;
– Stable isotopes;
– Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases;
– Natural and restored wetlands, lakes, soil, groundwater;
– Trace gas analysis and automation of monitoring equipment.

– Establishing 3D bioartificial models to aid in understanding how abnormal multicellular and multiorgan interactions contribute to lung diseases;
– Developmental biology.

– Global biogeochemistry;
– Technical communication to scientists and non-scientists.

Stochastic processes and mathematical biology.

– Single-cell omics of glia in acute injury and neurodegenerative models;
– Animal cell and molecular biology;
– Biotechnology.

Data science and machine learning for software engineering including:
– User feedback analysis;
– Empirical studies;
– Mining Software repositories;
– Code intelligence;
– Methods for low resource languages and scientific software.

– Design of molecular tools to study the real-time dynamics of cellular events;
– Using organic chemistry, natural products are modified to label proteins involved in cellular signaling;
– Protein-protein interactions, astrocytes communication, synapse elimination, and neurodegeneration.

– Empirical software engineering;
– Mining software repositories;
– Bug localization and prediction;
– Diversity-and social-aspects in software engineering.

– Computational chemistry of organic, inorganic, biological, and solid-state systems;
– Non-covalent interactions;
– Oxygen-centrered radical induced damage of proteins.

Convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications.

– Environmental change;
– Chironomid palaeoecology;
– Quaternary palaeoecology and paleoclimatology;
– Dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems;
– Aquatic insect ecology;
– Biomonitoring, use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change.

– Designing and developing behavior change systems and persuasive technologies such as serious games and mobile/web applications;
– Modelling the behaviour of online users in social networks and e-commerce systems;
– Data science;
– Social computing;
– Ethics and trust in persuasive technologies.

– Mixture models;
– Supervised and unsupervised learning;
– Computational statistics and biostatistics.

– Single-molecule and single-cell biophysics;
– DNA-based molecular molecular devices and biosensors;
– Cancer and immune cell mechanics and mechanobiology;
– Extracellular vesicle and exosome biology/biotechnology.

– Custom microwave techniques for measuring electromagnetic properties of materials;
– Low-temperature conductivity and penetration depth of unconventional superconductors;
– Complex permittivity of waste-activated sludge.

– Identifying and understanding the drivers of biodiversity patterns in space and through time;
– Community and landscape ecology;
– Best practices in open, transparent, and reproducible research.

– Information geometry;
– Topological data analysis;
– Queueing theory and applications in telecommunication systems;
– Random walks in quarter plane and applications in probability modelling.

– Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning with mixture models;
– Clustering and classification;
– Computational statistics;
– Applications in medical physics, engineering, bioinformatics, and sustainability.

– Condensed matter theory: geometrically frustrated magnetism (spin ice, spin liquid, dimer models);
– Hubbard ladders;
– Mesoscopic physics;
– Heavy fermion quantum criticality;
– Solid-state physics.

– Nonparametric statistics, distance metric learning, clustering, change-point analysis;
– Applications to wildfire science, behavioural finance and climate finance.

Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on behaviour and population dynamics: predator-prey dynamics; extinction risks and species-at-risk legislation; wildfires and wildlife; biosolids and wildlife; climate change; birds; mammals.

– Environmental impact assessment;
– Natural resources management;
– Energy and mining development.

– Synthesis and reactivity of paramagnetic organometallic chromium compounds of relevance to catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions;
– Single electron transfer reactions and electronic structure effects in synthetic organometallic chemistry.

– Host-microbiota interactions
– Glycobiology

– Enzyme guided radical-chemistry;
– Fast reaction and spectroscopic methods to probe the interplay between protein dynamics, function and structure;
– Rationale-design of biocatalysts;
– Vitamin-derived cofactors by biological systems.

– Structural geology and tectonics;
– Petrology;
– Geology of the Himalaya-Tibet-Karakorm system;
– Tectonics of Southwestern British Columbia.

– Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time;
– Incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches;
– Regional-scale landscape modelling;
– Social-ecological networks;
– Agent and individual-based modelling approaches;
– Landscape science and scenario building.

– Host-microbiome interactions in wild systems;
– Microbial ecology.

– Data visualization;
– Scenario simulation.

– Wild sunflower and cannabis genetics and molecular biology;
– Developmental biology;
– Evolution and ecology;
– Sustainable crops.

– Physiology of epithelial ion transport;
– Insect toxicology;
– Insect-plant interactions;
– Metals toxicology.

– Geographic information sciences;
– Spatial analysis and statistics;
– Wildfire ecology and management;
– Movement ecology;
– Remote sensing.

– Behavioural ecology;
– Arachnid diversity.

– Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants;
– Effects of fire and silviculture on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities;
– Carbon allocation within and between woody plants, orchard management under climate change.

– Plant genetics and genomics in understanding cell wall development;
– Abiotic stress tolerance in plants;
– Plant-microbe interactions.

– Animal movement, conservation, encounter theory, and evolutionary processes;
– Macro-ecology;
– Statistical ecology.

– Anthropogenic climate change impact assessment and adaptation;
– Use of climate databases in assessing climate change;
– Historical climate change at North American ski resorts;
– Forecasts of future climate change at North American ski resorts.

– Population genomics;
– Conservation genetics;
– Molecular ecology;
– Life-history evolution.

– Microbial ecology of soil microbes;
– Role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration.

– Deep learning;
– Computer vision and machine vision;
– Visual and aerial surveillance including drone surveillance;
– Video and image processing;
– Intelligent cameras;
– New algorithms for biomedical and emerging industrial applications;
– Agriculture automation.

– Human-computer interaction;
– Mobile and wearable (e.g., smartwatches, smart glasses) user interfaces;
– Augmented/virtual/mixed reality;
– Information visualization, gesture interaction, and computer vision;
– Navigation interfaces, and input devices.

– Software development, automation, embedded systems, and the Internet of Things;
– Data analytics for decision support;
– Medical image processing, parallel Processing, GPU acceleration, and cloud computing.

– Industrial ecology, ecological economics;
– Sustainability assessment, measurement and management;
– Life cycle thinking, and environmental and social life cycle assessment of food;
– Feed and biomass supply chains;
– Resource efficiency;
– Social license and market access;
– Trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

– Machine learning including deep learning;
– Optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision;
– Human-computer interaction: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

– Natural products biosynthesis, and biochemistry of secondary metabolism;
– Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry;
– Rational modification of biosynthetic pathways in bacteria to produce novel compounds with the potential to be pharmacologically relevant.

– Algebraic topology;
– Calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings including knots and links;
– Manifold calculus;
– Homotopy theory;
– Graph complexes;
– Open educational resources (OER) development.

– Ars2 in RNA biogenesis;
– RNA processing in stem cells;
– Regulation of Pax6 by miRNA;
– Rewiring of tyrosine pathway in cancer.

– Defect engineering;
– Silicon photonics;
– Quantum confinement;
– Ion implantation.

– Neurodegenerative disease;
– Signal transduction;
– Neurotrophin biology;
– Fly and mouse genetics.

– Human-computer interaction;
– Information visualization;
– Data visualization;
– Visual analytics;
– Ubiquitous computing;
– Immersive technologies;
– Persuasive health;
– Health informatics;
– Input devices.

– Database systems and data analytics including data integration;
– Analysis of large-scale scientific data sets and embedded databases for Internet of Things applications;
– Software engineering and system development.

– Medical imaging, imaging processing, and translational imaging;
– MRI physics;
– Pulse sequence design.

– Mathematical biology and spatial ecology;
– Mathematical models of ecological systems;
– Development and analysis of mathematical and computational models;
– Cyclic predator-prey populations.

– Nanogeology and microstructures;
– Geological diffusion processes and segregation of critical minerals;
– Earthquake nucleation and propagation mechanisms.

– Oxidative stress defences in anaerobic bacteria;
– Microbe/metal interactions (e.g. Cu, U, As) and the role of microbes in biogeochemical cycles;
– Antimicrobial peptides.

– Environmental science, management, and policy;
– Sustainability at local and global scales;
– Community resilience to natural hazards and climate change;
– Social and ecological indicators of sustainability, forest management, and conservation.

– Transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics of materials for solar energy conversion;
– Carbon-based photocatalytic materials;
– Sustainable energy and material production;
– Water treatment and advanced oxidation processes.

– Effects of information use on population and community processes;
– Evolutionary ecology and population ecology of parasitic insects;
– Developing insights into the biology of parasitic insects and the dynamics of parasite-dominated communities;
– Potential applications in the area of biological control of both insect pests and introduced weeds.

– Computational chemistry of iron-sulphur coordination compounds, clusters, nanoparticles, and mineral surfaces;
– Chemical structure and properties of templated carbon materials;
– Synchrotron spectroscopy of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic complexes.

– Glacial and fluvial processes;
– Landforms and landscapes;
– Environments of the quaternary, as determined by physical and biological systems.

– Plant cell biology;
– Plant organelle morphology;
– Plant cell wall synthesis.

Biochemical aspects of dietary fats and exercise in preventing the development and complications of obesity and diabetes.

– Comparative physiology, fish physiology, and metal metabolism in freshwater fish;
– Physiological adjustments in animals to changes in the quality of their environment.

– Machine/deep learning;
– Image/video processing and pattern recognition;
– Biometrics;
– Video surveillance systems.

– Molecular, cellular, biochemical and environmental factors that regulate the quality and quantity of aromas and essential oils produced by herbal and medicinal plants;
– Identification, cloning and characterization of structural and regulatory genes that are involved in the biosynthesis, inter- and intra-cellular trafficking, secretion and storage of monoterpenes in plants cells specialized for secondary metabolite production.

– Plant chemistry and biotechnology;
– Identification, quantification, and metabolism of plant secondary metabolites, the impact of these phytochemicals on human health, and the development of technologies for mass-production of specific plant chemicals as medicines, natural health products, food additives, and functional foods.

Comparative animal physiology with a focus on fish under climate warming

Mathematical ecology and insect dispersal.

Chemistry education and public engagement

– Structural and economic geology;
– Mineral deposit formation;
– Shear zone rheology and deformation processes.

– Studying plant metabolism using genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics;
– Discovering biosynthetic enzymes and pathways of medicinal natural products, especially anti-cancer compounds;
– Diversifying structures and functions of natural products with a strong focus on alkaloids;
– Synthetic biology/metabolic engineering of natural products biosynthesis.

– Treeline ecology;
– Abiotic controls on vegetation dynamics;
– Examination of the water-repellent soils that develop after severe wildfire, which modifies the soil micro-environment and subsequent vegetation establishment.

– Educational technology;
– Interdisciplinary education and sustainability pedagogy;
– Sustainability transitions and sustainable development.

– Computational statistics with applications including fire science;
– Statistical process control;
– Statistical education.

Chemistry education: alternative conceptions of advanced bonding models, impacts and effectiveness of active and collaborative learning activities, affective learning outcomes.

– Nonconvex analysis;
– Derivative-free optimization;
– Bundle methods;
– Applications in road design, medical physics, and engineering.

– Combinatorial design theory and graph theory;
– History of mathematics.

– Analytical glycobiology: modern instrumental techniques, and developing new methods;
– Using chemical and analytical tools to investigate the functions of protein-linked glycans in cells and animals.

– Organic chemistry;
– Biophysics and biochemistry of biological macromolecules.

– Variational analysis, convex analysis, and classical analysis;
– Optimization applications in signal processing and communications.

– Change point analysis;
– Saddle point approximation;
– Inverse moment approximation;
– K-sample inference, and cluster analysis.

– Algorithmic and computational problems in artificial intelligence and network science;
– Applications in social media and computational biology;
– Graph theory and probabilistic method.

– Computational mathematics, optimization and convex analysis;
– Modelling road design to minimize construction costs under safety and environmental constraints;
– Creating algorithms for computer-aided convex analysis;
– Visualizing operators in 2D, 3D, and 4D.

– Scholarship of teaching and learning;
– Innovative teaching strategies designed for higher education;
– Open educational resources (OER) development;
– Secondary teacher education in mathematics and science;
– Pathophysiology;
– Motor development;
– Human anatomy and physiology;
– Bio-applications using mass spectrometry.