Extreme weather & natural disasters
Brian Schwartz
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical public health
- Core competencies for and roles of health professionals in emergency management
- Core competencies for health professionals in identifying and managing patients affected by domestic violence
- Critical Incident Stress in health responders
- Health disaster and emergency management
- Mass gatherings preparedness and response
- Responding to the opioid epidemic, a public health emergency
- Risk Assessment and Communication (environmental and other emergencies)
- Validation of paramedic and firefighter first responder practice through evidence and outcomes-based research
Office: 647-260-7181
Mobile: 647-260-7181
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: brian.schwartz.a@utoronto.ca
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David Martell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6960
Languages (in addition to English): English,French
Website
Email: david.martell@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Desloges
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change
- Geomorphology
- Human-environment interactions
- Paleohydrology
- River processes and flooding
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Teaching Field Methods
Office: +1 (416) 978-3709
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
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Karen Louise Smith
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Department
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
- Department
- Centres
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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Lindsay Schoenbohm
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate-tectonic interactions
- Earthquakes
- Erosion by rivers and glaciers
- Landscape dynamics
- Mountain building
- Plate tectonics
- Record of past earthquakes
- Volcanoes
Office: (905) 569-4400
Website
Email: lindsay.schoenbohm@utoronto.ca
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Marianne Touchie
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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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Matthew Hoffmann
Professor
- Campus
- Department
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
- Department
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@melborinscreative.com
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Michael Widener
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- Housing and health
- How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
- Urban planning and health
Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
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Mike Wotton
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change impacts on wildfire in Canada
- Fire weather and its connection with fire behaviour
- Wildfire behaviour and spread
- Wildfire management and suppression
- Wildfire occurrence and their causes
Office: 416-978-5251
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: mike.wotton@utoronto.ca
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Nicole Novroski
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Forensic biology
- Forensic DNA analysis
- Human identification
- Missing person(s) and human remain(s) identification using DNA
- Population genetics
Office: (905) 569-4627
Mobile: 315-709-2424
Website
Email: nicole.novroski@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Pronouns: she/her
Russell Pysklywec
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Active continental mountain building and volcanism in New Zealand
- Earthquakes
- Lithospheric delamination beneath Eastern Anatolia
- Mantle-crust interactions on Io
- Mountain building
- Plate tectonics
- Sedimentary basins
- Slab retreat and overlying orogenesis of the Apennines belt in Northern Italy
- Tectonics of Canada’s high arctic
- Volcanism
Office: +1 (416) 978 4852
Website
Email: russ@es.utoronto.ca
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Sean Thomas
Professor
Areas of Expertise
- How trees and forests respond to human impacts – intentional impacts through forest management
- Unintentional impacts via local, regional, and global changes in the environment
Office: 416-978-1044
Languages (in addition to English): French,German,Malay,Swahili
Website
Email: sc.thomas@utoronto.ca
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Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Civil engineering
- Embodied carbon/GHG
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Infrastructure
- Sustainable cities
- Sustainable construction
- Transport
Office: N/A
Website
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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: 416-978-6526
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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Trevor Porter
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-828-5314
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: trevor.porter@utoronto.ca
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William Gough
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 287-7027
Website
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
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