Extreme weather & natural disasters

Brian Schwartz

Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Health disaster and emergency management

Office: 647-260-7181
Home: 416-781-0182
Mobile: 647-990-2399
Website
Email: janet.wong@oahpp.ca
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David Martell

Professor, Fire Management Systems Laboratory

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Forestry

Areas of Expertise

• Evacuations
• Forest fires
• Forest management
• Wildland fires

Office: 416-978-6960
Email: david.martell@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Desloges

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Earth Sciences
  • Geography & Planning

Areas of Expertise

• Climate change
• Geomorphology
• Human-environment interactions
• Paleohydrology
• River processes and flooding

Office: 416-978-5782
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
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Kent Moore

Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Mississauga

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Chemical and Physical Sciences
  • Physics
• 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

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

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Chemical and Physical Sciences
  • Earth Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Climate-tectonic interactions
• Earthquakes
• Erosion by rivers and glaciers
• Landscape dynamics
• Mountain building
• Plate tectonics
• Record of past earthquakes
• Volcanoes

Office: (647) 885-7934
Email: lindsay.schoenbohm@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Hoffmann

Professor of Political Science

Co-director of Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Climate change politics
• Climate-related policy
• Environmental policy
• Global environmental politics
• Global governance
• International relations
• Investing in green technology

Office: 416-287-7287
Mobile: 647-987-1961
Website
Email: matt.hoffmann@utoronto.ca
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Mel Borins

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Complementary and holistic medicine
• Grief counselling
• Health benefits of vacations
• Healthy lifestyle
• Improving clinician patient communication
• Laughter as medicine
• Preventing burnout
• Stress management
• Traumatic events & resilience

Office: 416-533-6488
Home: 416-782-4530
Email: mel@melborins.com
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Sean Thomas

Research Professor, Forests and Environmental Change

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Institute of Forestry and Conservation

Areas of Expertise

• Biochar
• Carbon sequestration
• Climate change effects on forests
• Forest canopies
• Sugar maple
• Tree physiology
• Tropical forests

Office: 416-978-1044
Languages (in addition to English): French, Malay (also some German and some Swahili)
Email: sc.thomas@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook

Director of the School of the Environment

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Climate modelling and simulation
• Computational modeling as a scientific research method
• Investigation of software failures
• Software engineering
• Software verification and validation
• Sustainable Cities and Urban Decision-Making
• Systems Analysis and Systems Thinking

Office: 416-978-3610
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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Trevor Porter

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography, Geomatics and Environment (UTM)

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic climate
• Climate change
• Holocene
• Mackenzie Delta
• Permafrost
• Tree rings
• Yukon

Office: 905-828-5314
Website
Email: trevor.porter@utoronto.ca
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William Gough

Professor, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough

Vice-Principal Academic and Dean, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Geography & Planning

Areas of Expertise

• Climate change
• Climate modelling
• Global warming
• Hudson Bay
• Polar bears
• Weather
• Weather patterns

Office: (416) 287-7027
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
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