Keunhyun Park
Email: keun.park@ubc.ca
Phone: 604-827-0191
Forest Sciences Centre 4615
2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Opportunities
We are currently recruiting one graduate student (MSc or PhD) to join the lab, with a potential start in September 2026, ideally with interests in technology-based urban nature research (e.g., sensors, computer vision/vision-language models, spatial data science) and collaborative work with partners and lab members.
See this document for details.
At the University of British Columbia, I am seeking enthusiastic, disciplined, and collegial graduate students in Ph.D. in Forestry or Master of Science in Forestry programs. We offer a full funding package, which includes stipends, a personal computer, travel support for conference presentations, and physical lab space. The funding covers 4 years for Ph.D. students and 2 years for Master’s students.
If interested, please email me at keun.park@ubc.ca with the following (general inquiries are also welcome):
- 1-page statement of research interests and motivation
- CV/Resume
- Unofficial transcripts
- Writing samples that you are most proud of (e.g., publication, thesis, report)
- Information on whether you have applied for external funding or intend to (see examples here)
- Contact information for 2-3 sentences
- Your favourite city and why, in no more than three sentences 🙂
My mentoring philosophy is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have multiple opportunities to contribute to advancing science in urban forestry and related fields while remaining engaged with real-world issues. I strive to foster a welcoming learning environment that promotes a growth mindset, respect for diversity, analytical thinking, and peer-to-peer training.
I recognize that, historically, urban forestry has lacked racial, ethnic, and gender diversity relative to other disciplines (Bardekjian et al., 2019; Kuhns et al., 2002, 2004; Urban Forestry, 2020). One of my core training goals is to involve students from diverse backgrounds, as I believe diversity fosters more ideas. To promote an equitable, diverse, and inclusive learning environment, I recruit and mentor underrepresented students, accommodate flexible time management needs (e.g., family care), enhance cross-cultural collaborations beyond my research group (e.g., Urban Forest Research Hub, ReROW cluster), and pursue research that benefits underrepresented communities (e.g., environmental justice, green equity, systemic bias in demographics).
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