Extreme weather & natural disasters
Brian Schwartz
Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 647-260-7181
Mobile: 647-990-2399
Website
Email: media@oahpp.ca
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David Martell
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6960
Email: david.martell@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Desloges
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change
- Geomorphology
- Human-environment interactions
- Paleohydrology
- River processes and flooding
Office: 416-978-3709
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
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Kent Moore
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Mississauga
- 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 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
- Faculty
- 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: (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
- Faculty
- 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@melborins.com
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Michael Widener
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency medical services transportation
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- 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 (Status-only), Daniels Faculty
Senior Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service (CFS)
- 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
Email: mike.wotton@utoronto.ca
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Nicole Novroski
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Stream)
- Campus
- 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 and Gordon Stollery Chair in Basin Analysis, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4852
Email: russ@es.utoronto.ca
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Sean Thomas
Research Professor, Forests and Environmental Change
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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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
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook
Director of the School of the Environment
- 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: 416-978-3610
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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Trevor Porter
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
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
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 287-7027
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
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