{"id":648,"date":"2016-03-13T03:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T03:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:24:39","slug":"ubc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/partners\/ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"University of British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Technical Representative<\/th>\n<th>Administrative Representative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Murdoch McAllister<\/strong><br \/>Associate Professor<br \/>Quantitative Modeling Group<br \/>Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries<br \/>The University of British Columbia<br \/>AERL, 2202 Main Mall<br \/>Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4<br \/>Phone: (604) 822-3693<br \/><a href=\"mailto:m.mcallister@oceans.ubc.ca\">m.mcallister@oceans.ubc.ca<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Adriana Suarez-Blanch<\/strong><br \/>Innovation UBC,<br \/>#103-6190 Agronomy Road,<br \/>Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada,<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Adriana.suarez-blanch@ubc.ca\">Adriana.suarez-blanch@ubc.ca<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Strengths<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Frameworks for ecosystem sustainability: harvest scheduling and timber supply analysis, wildlife habitat analysis, strategies and tactics to sustain vertebrate diversity in forested ecosystems, stand-level modeling of alternative silviculture systems, modeling of sustainability of ecosystems in mixed forests, nutrient cycling, carbon allocation<\/li>\n<li>Criteria\/indicators\/standards for sustainable forestry: monitoring and effectiveness assessment, including development and monitoring of certification standards for assessing forest management practices, role of forestry in the global carbon cycle, monitoring impact of forest practices on environment<\/li>\n<li>Salmon stream\/riparian zone management: forest hydrology, aquatic biodiversity, windthrow assessment, and management, effects of habitat restoration on fish habitat\/ecology\/physiology, benthic invertebrates and amphibians<\/li>\n<li>Visual resource management and public perception: forest landscape planning, landscape assessment and perception, modeling of human\/ landscape interactions, conflicts in outdoor recreation and tourism<\/li>\n<li>Genetics of forest flora and fauna: impacts of forest management on genetic diversity, physiological genetics of forest trees, application of genetic markers to studies of mating systems, adaptations to climate change, strategies for gene conservation<\/li>\n<li>Graduate programs in forest management, forest science, and conservation biology<\/li>\n<li>First Nations professional training program<\/li>\n<li>Professional continuing education through FMIBC (Forest Management Institute of B. C.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/\">UBC<\/a><\/b> website<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.ubc.ca\/\">UBC Forestry<\/a><\/b> website<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Representative Administrative Representative Murdoch McAllisterAssociate ProfessorQuantitative Modeling GroupInstitute for the Oceans and FisheriesThe University of British ColumbiaAERL, 2202 Main MallVancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4Phone: (604) 822-3693m.mcallister@oceans.ubc.ca Adriana Suarez-BlanchInnovation UBC,#103-6190 Agronomy Road,Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada,Adriana.suarez-blanch@ubc.ca Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Strengths UBC website UBC Forestry website<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/partners\/ubc\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":715,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 13:11:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19457,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/19457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}