Sahar Badiei | Master’s student
Sahar has joined UBC, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) in 2015 as Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture (MASLA) candidate. She holds her first master in Architecture from Iran, following with three years of practicing in architecture and urban design firms as a registered architect in Iran and then as an intern in Canada. Her […]
Verenice Escamilla | Visiting PhD (c)
Verenice is a candidate for Doctor of Science in Ecology and Development Sustainable by the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico. She has a master in coastal and marine management by the Institute of Ecology, Fisheries and Oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico where she worked on risk management and vulnerability in the watershed of Palizada River; and she studied […]
Laurel Eyton | Master’s Student
Laurel is a graduate student at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC, specializing in Environmental Planning. Growing up in New Westminster, Laurel was fascinated by local history and how previous land use decisions led to the current landscape. Laurel completed a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography at Simon Fraser University, focusing on fluvial geomorphology. […]
Michael McBurnie | Master’s Student
Michael is a graduate student in the Master of Community and Regional Planning program. His focus is on urban systems, with a view toward sustainability and resiliency. This is his second lap at UBC. Prior to SCARP, he completed a BASc here in Electrical Engineering. He worked in energy systems design and systems commissioning, most […]
Vrushti Mawani | PhD Student
Vrushti is a PhD candidate at the School of Community and Regional Planning and is interested in water access from equity-related perspectives. More specifically, she is interested in the socio-economic aspects of urban water and wastewater management. Her doctoral research, for which she was recently awarded a fieldwork grant from IDRC, looks at examining water access […]
PJ Bell | Master Graduate (2016)
PJ is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning in the Ecological and Natural Resource Planning focus area. He grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of Regina. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant studying the effects of climate change […]
Jenna Cook| Master Graduate (2016)
Jenna is a graduate student in the School of Community and Regional Planning (Ecological and Natural Resources Planning stream) and in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Watershed Management Certificate program. She is a graduate from the University of Victoria (B.A. Geography and Environmental Studies) and from Vancouver Island University (Advanced Diploma in GIS). […]
Cassandra Cummings | Master Graduate (2016)
Cassandra Cummings was a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC, in the environmental and natural resources planning stream. She completed her Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science with a specialization in Biology, as well as her Master’s of Science in Biology, at Queen’s University. Cassandra’s biology masters thesis examined […]
Grant Diamond | Master Graduate (2016)
Grant recently completed his Master of Science at the School of Community and Regional Planning with a focus in ecological and natural resources planning and international urban studies. In 2014 he visited the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Studies where he conducted comparative research in metropolitan planning and gained an understanding of Dutch […]
David Gill | Master Graduate (2016)
David is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Calgary, where wrote his thesis on the uses and abuses of the term “Sustainability” across discourses. David also studied one year in Hong Kong and worked internationally in France and Colombia, researching both private and public […]