- Why I resigned from the Net-Zero Advisory Body (also listen here)
- Go Big or Go Home, from the UBC Magazine
- Op-ed on the risk of expanding oil and gas production in Canada
- Listen to Pacific Voices, my podcast sharing Pacific Islands perspectives on climate change
- Why our imaginations are the key to solving climate change, TEDx talk
- The climate crisis demands courage not optimism, in The Conversation, with Kathryn Harrison
- Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data in Nature Climate Change
- Version 2 of our high resolution global coral bleaching database is available for use
- Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change in Nature Climate Change
- Two ways of thinking about the climate impact of voting in elections in One Earth
- How well do people understand the climate impact of individual actions? in Climatic Change
- The ugly history of Climate Determinism in Scientific American
- The role of temperature, and potential integration of light exposure, in predicting cold-water bleaching in corals in Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020
- Temperature targets and Canada’s election in Policy Options
- Elections Canada nonsense shows why science versus politics isn’t a fair fight in The Star
- The relationship between macro algae taxa and human disturbance on central Pacific coral reefs in Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success in Journal of Cleaner Production
- Resilience of Central Pacific reefs subject to frequent heat stress and human disturbance in Scientific Reports
Email: simon.donner@ubc.ca
Prospective Students
Each year, I am able to take on one or two highly motivated individuals with strong numerical and analytical skills as PhD students or post-doctoral fellows.
Applicants are chosen based on the fit with planned or ongoing research areas, strength of their ideas, technical ability, passion for problem-solving, and contribution to diversity.
Please read the prospective students and fellows page before contacting me.
What’s New
Why I resigned from the Net-Zero Advisory Body (also listen here)
Op-ed on the risk of expanding oil and gas production in Canada
Go Big or Go Home, from the UBC Magazine
Listen to Pacific Voices, my podcast sharing Pacific Islands perspectives on climate change
Why our imaginations are the key to solving climate change, TEDx talk
Read more here.