- We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in the area of marine heatwaves
- Listen to Pacific Voices, my podcast sharing Pacific Islands perspectives on climate change
- Coral adaptive capacity insufficient to halt global transition of coral reefs into net erosion under climate change in Global Change Biology
- The Scientific Case for Courage, keynote delivered at the Canadian Climate Institute/Net-Zero Advisory Body conference in Ottawa
- Why our imaginations are the key to solving climate change, TEDxSurrey 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
I am open to talking to highly motivated individuals with strong numerical and analytical skills hoping to do graduate or post-doctoral climate research. For more information, see here.
Prospective students can apply through IRES, Oceans and Fisheries, the Department of Geography, or Atmospheric Sciences.
What’s New
Postdoctoral opening (!), in marine heatwaves and climate change
Pacific Voices, podcast sharing Pacific Islands views about climate change
The Scientific Case for Courage, keynote speech at Ottawa conference
Why our imaginations are the key to solving climate change, TEDx talk
Version 2 of our global coral bleaching database is available for use
Read more here.