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Centre for Global Change Science

Bryan Karney

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource systems
  • Educating engineers
  • Particular emphasis of transient events
  • Pipe breaks and failure in water systems
  • Pipe networks and water supply systems, including prediction of physical and chemical characteristics
  • Pumps and pumping stations
  • Water and energy systems (particularly hydro-electric)

Office: 416-978-7776
Website
Email: bryan.karney@utoronto.ca
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Kent Moore

Professor

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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Kimberly Strong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Air quality and pollution
  • Arctic atmospheric science
  • Arctic Atmospheric Science, PEARL, CANDAC, PAHA, and MOACC
  • Atmospheric composition and chemistry
  • Atmospheric measurements
  • Atmospheric physics
  • Climate change
  • Concept study for OH Measurements from Space (OHMS)
  • Ground-based ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy to measure the concentrations of stratospheric gases
  • Ground-Based UV-Visible Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere
  • Intracavity laser spectroscopy using a Fourier transform spectrometer in step-scan mode for temporal resolution
  • Laboratory spectroscopy
  • Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA)
  • Modelling the retrieval of vertical profiles of tropospheric gases using a ranging spectrometer
  • Near-infrared laboratory spectroscopy of methane in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter
  • Ozone depletion
  • Planetary atmospheres
  • Remote sounding of the atmosphere (from the ground, balloons, and satellites)
  • SCISAT-1 and the ACE-FTS and MAESTRO Satellite Instruments
  • Stratospheric Science with the Odin Satellite
  • Studies of Planetary Atmospheres
  • The University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO)
  • Wildfires

Office: 416-978-5205
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook

Professor

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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