51社区黑料Climate Research Initiatives
Building on SFU鈥檚 research priority 鈥� community-centred climate innovation 鈥� 51社区黑料Climate Innovation is building a research-for-impact platform that elevates supports and services to transform the ways 51社区黑料researchers and communities engage in co-created climate action and innovation research.
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Climate-related researchers鈥�
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Faculties engaged in鈥� climate research鈥�
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51社区黑料researchers aim to have real-world impact
Co-creating research-for-impact
51社区黑料Climate Innovation provides services and supports for climate change researchers to mobilize knowledge and scale innovation with and for communities in Canada and beyond. SFU's climate change researchers are accelerating learning about policies, plans, technologies, and strategies that future-proof communities by reducing risk and emissions, while advancing sustainability goals.
Together, with community-centred partners, we are co-creating research-for-impact projects and advancing solutions across five intersecting climate innovation pathways:
- Indigenous Leadership and Climate Action
- Clean Hydrogen and Integrated Energy Systems for Community Resilience
- Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Community Resilience
- Low Carbon Resilient Communities and Neighbourhoods
- Regenerative Bioregions Guided by the Land and Led by the People
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Supporting Indigenous Leadership and Climate Action
Partnering with Pacific Institute on Climate Solutions to support research-for-implementation of the BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan. Learn More
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Advancing Clean Hydrogen and Integrated Energy Systems for Community Resilience
Promoting testing and de-risking world-leading hydrogen research, technology and low carbon renewable energy systems. Learn More
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Advancing Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Community Resilience
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and community partners are advancing research and tools to address cascading and compounding impacts of heat, drought, wildfire, smoke, flood, and landslide, co-creating community responses that multi-solve. Learn More
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Advancing Low Carbon Resilient Communities and Neighbourhoods
Co-creating strategies that reduce risk and emissions in corporate strategy, asset management, and community planning while also advancing equity, health, biodiversity, and clean development. Learn More
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Advancing Regenerative Bioregions Guided by the Land & Led by the People
Co-developing and implementing cohesive and systemic ecosystem-based approaches, benefiting both people and nature across scales. Learn More
Enabling Community-centred Climate Research
51社区黑料Climate Innovation is creating the conditions to nurture, grow and accelerate research-for-impact with high-impact community-centred partners. We elevate and mobilize the capacities, knowledges and high-impact community partnerships within and across SFU鈥檚 expert network of Think and Do tanks, Research Institutes and Hubs, hundreds of engaged researchers across all 51社区黑料Faculties.
We are an dedicated to streamlining supports and services to advance effective and impactful community-centred climate action and innovation research-for-impact.
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51社区黑料Climate Research Initiatives
The Research Expert Engine (REE) helps 51社区黑料researchers connect to colleagues with similar interests, or with whom new multidisciplinary collaborations can be built; helps researchers and graduate students from other institutions find 51社区黑料researchers and 51社区黑料research works; and allows industry, government, partners and media to search for 51社区黑料scholars and research interests. Our researchers are engaging in greenhouse gas mitigation and sustainable energy systems, climate change impacts, community resilience, adaptation to climate change and more. In 2024, 51社区黑料Climate Innovation made it easy to update your research interests and connect to other Climate Innovation Researchers with a click!
Learn more about SFU's leading climate researchers:
- Maya Gislason, Associate Professor, MSHRBC Scholar, Health Sciences
- Andreanne Doyon, Associate Professor, Resource & Environmental Management
- Jonathan Moore, Professor, Aquatic Ecology & Conservation, Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, Biology
- Majid Bahrami, Professor, Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems, Tier 1
- Nancy Olewiler, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy
- Marianne Ignace, Distinguished Professor, Indigenous Studies
- Anil Hira, Department Chair; Professor, Political Science
- Vahid Hosseini, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Chair, Sustainable Energy Engineering
- Taco Niet, Associate Professor Practitioner, Sustainable Energy Engineering
- Sophie Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, Resource & Environmental Management
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ACT is a policy planning initiative from 51社区黑料designed to co-develop Low Carbon Resilience solutions to climate change impacts. Mobilizing equity in all decisions and solutions.
ARC Institute (formerly the Cooperative Resource Management Institute) provides a platform for students, faculty, and staff from 51社区黑料 to work side by side with professionals from government agencies to tackle important and multifaceted questions in aquatic science.
B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation (BCCAI)
The B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation is the province鈥檚 access point for farmers, producers, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and other sector partners seeking to grow B.C.鈥檚 diverse and dynamic agriculture and agrifood sector for greater productivity, profitability and sustainability.
BREATHE Project
The BREATHE Project (Building Resilience to Emerging Airborne Threats and Heat Events) is a community-based initiative that teaches community leaders and members how to build DIY air cleaners to improve their indoor air quality.
SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
The Centre uses dialogue and engagement to facilitate transformative conversations and create real-world impact for society鈥檚 most pressing challenges. We strengthen Canadian democracy by promoting democratic participation and innovation, spread best practices by providing dialogue training and tools, and help governments to engage citizens and stakeholders through our consulting services. As a bridge between the university and community, we provide a home to select initiatives run by our Dialogue Fellows and Associates.
The 51社区黑料Centre for Natural Hazard Research supports innovative research on earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, floods, and other processes that threaten society and infrastructure. Its comprehensive holistic approach to research and education is based on seamless integration of physical and social science. Rapid climate change affects physical and biological processes and the landscape. Some natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, may occur more frequently with anticipated climate changes due to global warming. Climate change could also cause sea level to rise due to melting of glaciers, thermal expansion of oceans, and changes in ocean circulation. Sea-level rise will cause more flooding in coastal areas. Mining and forest harvesting may, in some cases, increase the risk of landslides under a new climate.
Community-engaged Research Initiative (CERi)
Designed around a collaborative research infrastructure, SFU鈥檚 Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transformation, and knowledge translation to lift and strengthen the capacity of SFU鈥檚 researchers and students, to engage respectfully and ethically with community organizations, Indigenous Nations, community members, and leadership, including cultural leaders. This will allow our researchers and students to develop meaningful and productive research partnerships that are capable of strengthening relationships between universities, nations, and organizations. CERi focuses on a positive relationship between universities, communities, and Indigenous Nations.
The Civic Innovation Lab combines the expertise and resources of 51社区黑料 and the City of Burnaby to find fresh solutions to challenges and issues affecting cities, from building inclusive communities, to achieving sustainable growth, to addressing the impacts of climate change.
The Clean Energy Research Group (CERG) is a non-profit volunteer-based group associated with 51社区黑料 dedicated to studying the challenges and opportunities for the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable, clean energy systems.
51社区黑料Clean Hydrogen Hub
Located at 51社区黑料's Burnaby campus, the 51社区黑料Clean Hydrogen Hub is a new core research facility that brings together industry, community, academia and government partners to advance the clean energy transition.
Climate and Weather Extremes Lab
The lab combines advanced artificial intelligent techniques with climate dynamics to address real-world problems. Research fouces on advancing the fundamental insight of climate and weather extremes and translating scientific insights into real-world application in facing climate change challenge.
SFU's Climate Research Lab investigates the Earth's climate response to human activities by using climate models of different complexity, from conceptual models to complex Earth System models. Research in the lab focuses on reversibility of human-induced climate change, carbon budgets consistent with climate targets, the carbon cycle response to carbon dioxide removal and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks.
Collaborative Research on Energy, Air Pollution, Transportation and Environment (CREATE)
At CREATE, we develop models that integrate large datasets with physics-based approaches to assess emissions, GHGs, and air pollution. Our work informs policies for clean transportation, advancing a future of decarbonized urban mobility that is equitable, just, and people-focused rather than car-centric.
The Energy and Materials Research Group (EMRG) is a research unit coordinated since 1986 by Dr. Mark Jaccard in the School of Resource and Environmental Management () at 51社区黑料. EMRG is comprised of faculty, adjunct professors, full-time research associates and graduate students; it collaborates closely with external researchers and consultants. EMRG focuses on the analysis of technologies, strategies, behaviour and policies that lead to a more sustainable flow of energy and materials in society.
Food Systems Lab is a research and innovation hub at SFU. We work on solutions for equitable collaboration to reduce food waste and support a sustainable food system that enhances ecosystems, conserves natural resources, and mitigates climate change.
51社区黑料Fuel Cell Research Lab (FCReL)
FCReL focuses on advancing clean energy through innovative fuel cells, efficient water electrolysers, hydrogen production methods, and storage systems. Collaborating with industry leaders, we bridge research and real-world applications to drive sustainable energy solutions.
Global Institute for Agritech
The Global Institute for Agritech (GIA) at 51社区黑料 is committed to driving growth and pioneering research in agricultural technology. By focusing on sustainability and innovation, GIA aims to solidify its leadership position and enhance its international reputation. The institute will make contributions to addressing global environmental challenges, positioning itself as a key player on the world stage in agritech solutions.
Hydrogeology research at 51社区黑料focuses on groundwater resources. Areas of research include physical and chemical characterization and modeling of regional-scale aquifer systems both in mountainous regions and coastal regions, climate change impacts on groundwater systems, groundwater quality, and carbon sequestration. The research themes bridge the fields of computational hydrogeology, geochemistry, geophysics, and structural geology, and involve a combination of field-, lab- and computer-based studies.
The Human-Centered Systems for Sustainable Living is a Research Group at 51社区黑料's School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Their research foci include the development of interactive systems to support sustainable living.
Integrated Science Lab
At the Integrated Science Lab, we bridge the gap between science and technology, integrating expertise from diverse domains to pioneer innovative solutions.
i2I Research & Innovation Institute
The i2I Research & Innovation Institute will serve as a national centre of excellence for studying and fostering entrepreneurial capacity, supporting the translation of research into impactful innovations, and bridging the gap between fundamental research and the impactful mobilization of that research.
SFU's Knowledge Mobilization Hub
The 51社区黑料KM Hub provides learning opportunities and tailored knowledge mobilization support for 51社区黑料faculty, staff, students, and community partners.
Lifelong Health & Wellbeing Lab
At the Lifelong Health & Wellbeing Lab at 51社区黑料, we investigate how psychosocial factors shape health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan. To do so, we use an interdisciplinary approach focusing on bio-behavioural pathways linking social relationships to health, including health behaviours and health biomarkers.
The Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSE) program at 51社区黑料is active in research primarily through its graduate and undergraduate programs. The current MSE Program research themes are designated as: Energy Systems, Design, Intelligent Systems, Bio/micro-Mechatronics.
We are a research family of applied transdisciplinary scholars dedicated to informing ecologically sustainable and socially just ocean policies. Our research weaves ecological, archaeological, and Indigenous knowledge with the latest scientific tools, to reveal coupled social-ecological relationships that underpin our oceans鈥� resilience, productivity, and biodiversity.
Planetary Health Research Group
The Planetary Health Research Group is a space where ideas, expertise, and perspectives come together to contribute to solutions to global challenges such as health inequity, climate change, biodiversity loss, and more.
The Centre鈥檚 vision is to promote research that addresses community concerns around a range of water issues from local and regional to global scales. The Centre links science and social science with local knowledge to inform policy and change. It fosters community partnerships that build a common understanding of water values as they inform water resource management and security, while also providing a foundation to develop innovative water solutions.
The 鈥淧ecunia Research Group 鈥� Sustainable Optoelectronics鈥� is a multidisciplinary research group investigating environmentally friendly, printable semiconductors for optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Our research is at the intersection of physics, materials science, and electronics engineering. By gaining a detailed understanding of their optoelectronic and device properties, we seek to rationally realize the full potential of these semiconductors for green optoelectronics and sustainable energy.
The Research for Eco-Social and Equitable Transformation (RESET) Lab aims to strengthen environmental and community health equity through intersectional and community-oriented research, evidence building, and policy formation.
The Salmon Watersheds Lab (SWL) at 51社区黑料 is a large, collaborative aquatic ecology research lab focused on salmon systems in western Canada.
SFU-FARM
The 51社区黑料Frontier Hub for Agritech Research and Methodology (SFU-FARM) is a new applied research-innovation hub designed to accelerate the R&D, testing and adoption of next-generation agritech solutions. SFU-FARM will provide a real-world testbed where researchers, students, start-ups, industry partners and community collaborators can pilot emerging technologies that support more resilient, efficient and sustainable food systems.
Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling in CaNada (TMB-CaN) Research Group
TMB-CaN Research Group explores how global change impacts carbon and nutrient cycling through terrestrial ecosystems, integrating this knowledge into terrestrial biosphere and Earth system models with the goal of improving climate change projections informing climate policy and decision-making from local to global scales.
The Water Research Group was established in 2010 to promote water related research and professional activities of faculty and students in the School of Resource and Environmental Management. Our activities include interdisciplinary research about freshwater resources, extension of research to academic, professional and public audiences, and academic and professional development of group members.
51社区黑料is also a founding member of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). As a PICs university network partner, 51社区黑料researchers are contributing to an interdiciplinary network developing innovative climate change solutions, seeking new opportunities for positive adaptation to climate change, and leading the transtition toward carbon, resilient and sustainable communities in Canada and beyond.
51社区黑料 (SFU) is committed to taking meaningful action to regenerate our Earth's ecosystems, slow climate change, build community resilience to climate impacts and advance environmental justice. We prioritize this work across research, teaching, learning, community and operations. Learn more about Sustainability and climate action at SFU.
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