The Environmental Economics and Ecology Lab

Welcome to the Three E's Lab website! Research in our lab spans environmental economics, ecology, applied sociology and data science. We are co-located in the Institute for Resources,  Environment and Sustainability (Faculty of Science) and in the Food and Resource Economics group (Faculty of Land and Food Systems) at the University of British Columbia. Scroll down to learn more about who we are, what we do, and how to join the lab.

People

• Joséphine Gantois, Assistant Professor

  • • Research and teaching interests: environmental economics, global environmental change, landscape ecology, sociology in agriculture, everything causal inference, deep learning and remote sensing applications in ecology.

• Samantha Gorle, MSc IRES, co-advised with Claire Kremen, 2023-

• Chloë Chang, MSc IRES, 2024-

  • Research interests: My current work explores sustainable agricultural practices and conservation potential from farmers using a precision agriculture technology called profit-mapping. Overall, I am interested in wildlife conservation and ecology, ecological principles in agricultural contexts, sustainable food production, and socioeconomically practical biodiversity conservation with local communities.

• Katelyn Colwell, MSc IRES, incoming

• Aloy Campos, work-learn IRES, 2024-

Lab alumni

• Research interns: Bastien Gless (MSc research thesis, AI and Computer Vision, ENSTA Paris)

• Research assistants: Laura Castrejon Violante (PhD research assistant, IRES, 2024), Guillermo Parra (work-learn, MA Vancouver School of Economics, 2024), Zhanerke Zhumash (work-learn, BSc Applied Mathematics, 2024)

• Undergraduate students: Wenwen Wang (directed studies, Applied Biology, 2024)

How to join the lab

Current opportunities

• [Application period closed] Fully funded PhD position in Environmental Economics for September 2025: see here for the description and application details.

General guidelines

Prospective graduate students interested in joining the lab should take time to browse through this website. If you find that our research interests overlap, please email me with a personal statement, CV, and unofficial transcript well in advance of the application deadlines (mid-December for RES, early January for ISLFS). The personal statement should describe concisely your current research interests (proposed research), past research experience, and motivation for joining the graduate program and this lab specifically.

• Students seeking a degree in environmental economics will be encouraged to apply via the ISLFS program and will be integrated in the broader Food and Resource Economics research group.

• Students with interdisciplinary profiles will be encouraged to apply via the RES program, housed in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.

Prospective postdoctoral researchers: Funding is occasionally available for specific projects (see 'current opportunities' below), but there are several postdoctoral fellowships that can fund independent projects. If you would like to collaborate on a project and plan to apply for independent funding, please email me for more information, in advance of the fellowship application deadlines.

Undergraduate students seeking research experience in the Three E's Lab (e.g. directed studies) should email me, and monitor the 'current opportunities' section below.