Heat warnings & air quality

David Martell

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Centres
  • Institute of Forestry and Conservation

Areas of Expertise

• Analytics applications to forest fire management
• Forest fire management systems
• Forest fires

Office: 416-978-6960
Languages (in addition to English): English,French
Website
Email: david.martell@utoronto.ca
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Ira Jacobs

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

• Exercise pharmacology
• Exercise physiology
• Human skeletal muscle metabolism
• Nutritional and/or pharmacological interventions affecting exercise performance
• Physiological adaptations to acute short-term, high intensity exercise
• Physiological responses and adaptations to environmental extremes

Office: 416-978-5909
Languages (in addition to English): Swedish, French, Hebrew
Email: ira.jacobs@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Brook

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium
  • Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosols

Areas of Expertise

• air pollution
• Climate
• Environmental health
• Equity
• Exposure assessment
• Health effects studies
• Urban air quality
• Urban form and planning

Office: 416-978-5883
Mobile: 705-970-7121
Website
Email: jeff.brook@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Karen Louise Smith

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Physical and Environmental Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Climate and atmospheric variability of the mid-latitude
• Earth system models
• Polar regions using a hierarchy of numerical climate
• Statistical techniques

Office: N/A
Website
Email: karen.smith@utoronto.ca

Kent Moore

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Chemical and Physical Sciences
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic climate
• Arctic melting
• Climate change
• Extreme weather
• Ice Cores
• North Pole atmospheric disturbances
• Sea Ice
• Warming at high northern latitudes & impact on the Arctic and Canada

Office: 416-978-4686
Mobile: 647-808-5132
Website
Email: gwk.moore@utoronto.ca
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Marianne Touchie

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
• Department
  • Civil and Mineral Engineering

Areas of Expertise

• Energy efficiency
• High-rise buildings
• Indoor environmental quality
• Indoor overheating/underheating
• Residential buildings
• Retrofits
• Thermal Comfort

Office: (416) 978-5919
Website
Email: marianne.touchie@utoronto.ca
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Samantha Green

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• air pollution
• climate change and health
• climate change as global health threat
• First Nations communities & safety
• heat waves
• homelessness and health
• impact of extreme weather on vulnerable populations
• planetary health

Office: 416-864-3022
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: drsamantha.green@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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