Within the Faculty of Forestry, there are several research groups and projects. Visit the website of each project to find out more.

AIRD - Adaptation and Impacts Research Division
The Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD) of Environment Canada is committed to helping Canadians become well-adapted to current and future changes in the atmosphere. 

AFRICAD – Africa Forests Research Initiative on Conservation and Development
A research and teaching initiative working in Africa’s forested regions to pursue conservation-based approaches that address poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods.

Atlas - SIMFOR Project
ATLAS is a spatially explicit harvest simulation model. SIMFOR is a tool designed to assist forest managers in evaluating the consequences of forest management scenarios on landscape and habitat variables.

Belowground Ecosystem Group
The primary goal of the Centre is to conduct interdisciplinary collaborative research towards the eventual scientific goal of linking structure and function in belowground ecosystems.

Biomaterials Chemistry Lab
Examines various aspects of biopolymer synthesis and processing to develop new biomaterials from cellulose, cellulose derivatives and lignin.

Biotechnology & Biomaterials Group
A group of labs that are creating renewable and biobased polymers, carbon fibers, and chemicals.

Centre for Advanced Wood Processing
CAWP conducts applied research, offers a wide range of continuing education, training and extension programs, and assists industry by supplying undergraduate students with specialist knowledge of wood products manufacturing for cooperative education placements.

Centre for Alpine Studies
The Centre for Alpine Studies serves to coordinate scientific research conducted on alpine ecosystems.

Centre for Applied Conservation Research
Canada’s leading research centre for solving complex, applied conservation problems within managed and natural landscapes.

Centre for Forest Gene Conservation
The CFGC studies the genetic structure of forest trees, and genetic diversity in breeding and deployment of improved varieties to meet current and future environmental challenges.

Collaboration for Advanced Landscape Planning
An informal group of researchers at the University of British Columbia specializing in landscape visualization, environmental perception, public land management processes and sustainable landscapes.

The Corporate Responsibility Initiative in Forestry
A group created to coordinate collaborative investigation of Corporate Responsibility practices and issues in the forest industry.

FACT – Forests and Communities in Transition
An initiative dedicated to research, dialogue and knowledge exchange aimed at contributing to the development of more resilient and liveable forest-dependent communities.

First Nations and Sustainable Forestry
A research project that focuese on identifying necessary changes to facilitate successful First Nations involvement in the forest sector.

Forest Ecosystem Management Simulation Group
This group is working on developing a number of different forest ecosystem models and management tools with which to make long-term projections of forest conditions and values that may result from different ways of managing today's forests.

Forest Genetics and Breeding
A group of labs and facilities dedicated to studying population genetics.

Forest Hydrology
Various Hydrology research projects.

Forest Information Resource Management Systems (FIRMS) Lab
A GIS, and Remote Sensing Facility who's primary goal is to establish and maintain shared high quality geospatial databases for multiple users in teaching and research.

Forest Measurements and Biometrics
Forest measurements and biometrics  involves developing and testing methods for taking and using measures from forested lands, including statistical sampling and analysis methods. 

Forest Policy Resources
This site provides a forest policy resource from a variety of perspectives, on the topics that make up the field of forest policy.

Forest Values Project
A project designed to develop a questionnaire that would enable forest managers to better measure a broad array of values and attitudes associated with forest characteristics and forest management.

Industrial Engineering Research Group
The IE research group comprises of graduate students and research scholars working in the area of operations management, efficiency and productivity, and information technology under the supervision of Dr. Taraneh Sowlati.

Integrated Remote Sensing Studio
Advanced inventory techniques and application of remote sensing imagery.

Interactive Digital Environmental Assessment Lab
A multi-use research facility that investigates a number of current topics relevant to Forestry, Psychology, and Computer Science.

Landscape Ecology Lab
A research lab which addresses the interactions between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory
A lab which studies adult salmon migration survival, behaviour, energetics, physiology, habitat use, and environmental cues.

SCHIRP
A research project studying the underlying causes of poor growth of regenerating cedar-hemlock cutovers invaded by salal on the west coast of North America.

Stream and Riparian Research Laboratory
This research program addresses questions related to the mechanisms that structure stream and riparian area communities, and how various land-use practices affect those systems.

The Stream Network
Covers the chemical, physical, and biological sciences needed for the wise management of aquatic systems. 

Sustainable Business Management Lab 
Research interests revolve around sustainable business management practices and issues and providing business solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products and the emerging conservation economy.

Sustainable Forest Management Research Group
The Sustainable Forest Management Laboratory was established in 2000 to encourage inter-disciplinary research into problems related to sustainable forest management.

Timber Building Technology Group
An interdisciplinary group involving the UBC Departments of Architecture, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and Wood Science.The members of this group undertake research and develop educational programs in wood products processing.

Watershed Hydrology Laboratory
This research lab provides scientifically based information, knowledge and expert advice to promote sound policies, solve urgent operational problems and provide a solid foundation on which to build sustainable water resources management in BC.

Windthrow Research Group
A research group focusing on the windthrow phenomenon.