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Kai Chan is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair (tier 2, in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). His training spans conservation biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, policy, and ethics, and his skill sets include quantitative analysis and modeling. Kai combines these perspectives in a sustainability science research program on social-ecological interactions (including human impacts on ecosystem components and processes, and ecosystem services to benefit people) and applied environmental ethics to inform ecosystem-based management and sustainability solutions. Kai leads CHAN’S lab; he is a director on the board of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s BC chapter (CPAWS-BC), a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and a member of the Global Young Academy.
To see Kai’s page at CHAN’S lab click here.
Kai’s TEDx talk is online
Special Agents, Rubik’s Cubes, and How to Solve the Climate Crisis | Kai Chan | TEDxSurrey
In a planetary crisis, action enables hope. But it’s daunting to try to live sustainably in an unsustainable system. Professor and change-agent Dr. Kai Chan shares stories of triumph and challenge in international policy for nature, and finding the real key to a better future on Earth: you. You are already part of the solution to our many-sided puzzle of climate, ecology, and equity. Join the conversation here. Dr. Kai Chan loves science, play, fitness, and inspiring action for a planet both better and wilder. Check him out @ CoSphere.net
López de la Lama et al., Private land conservation in South America
López de la Lama, R., N. Bennett, J. Bulkan, D. Boyd and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America.” Conservation Biology 37(4): e14068. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.14068
Loos et al, Environmental justice and ecosystem services
Loos, J., F. Benra, M. Berbés-Blázquez, L.L. Bremer, K.M.A. Chan et al. (2023). “An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services.” Ambio 52(3): 477-488. 10.1007/s13280-022-01812-1
Eyster et al., Relational thinking
Eyster, H.N., T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice.” People and Nature 5(2): 455–469. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10453
Stock et al., Exploring multiple stressor effects
Stock, A., C.C. Murray, E.J. Gregr, J. Steenbeek, E. Woodburn, F. Micheli, V. Christensen and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions.” Science of The Total Environment 869: 161719. Doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161719
Driscoll & Chan, Assessing fisheries nutrient yields
Driscoll, J. and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Assessing fisheries nutrient yields: The Northwest Atlantic, 1950–2014.” Ambio 52: 271–284. Doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01795-z
Julia Craig’s bat research covered in Vancouver Sun
The story by Tiffany Crawford was titled, “UBC researcher rides bicycle around Vancouver to study how city affects bats”. Julia is now on a cross-continental bike tour of South America.
Ashli Akins defends her PhD
Congratulations to Ashli for her exceptional PhD Defence today for her dissertation entitled, “Pampa and Pallay : the paradox of culture and economy in the Andean mountains”. It was a pass with no revisions (save a typo). Dorothy Nason and Jon Beasley-Murray were university examiners, Nancy Turner was on Zoom, Mark Turin in absentia, and co-supervisors Wade Davis and Kai Chan asking their own questions and those of external examiner Graham Dutfield at Leeds.
Eyster et al., Perennial polycultures boost bird diversity in the US Midwest
Eyster, H.N., D.S. Srivastava, M. Kreitzman and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape.” Ecography 2022(11): e06240. Doi: 10.1111/ecog.06240
Eyster et al., Not just the Big Five: African tourists and bird diversity
Eyster, H.N., R. Naidoo and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Not just the Big Five: African ecotourists prefer parks brimming with bird diversity.” Animal Conservation 26(4): 428-442. Doi: 10.1111/acv.12816