School of the Environment
Beth Savan
Senior Lecturer Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
- Institutional policy on sustainability
- Sustainability
Office: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
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Bryan Karney
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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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Carl Mitchell
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Contaminant transport
- Environmental Contamination
- Hydrology
- Mercury and methylmercury
- Water quality
- Wetlands
Office: (416) 208-2744
Mobile: (647) 282-7627
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Chalin
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Child poverty
- Disabilities - hearing loss
- Global public health
- Human rights
- Medical education
- Peace-building through public health
- Public health in conflicted regions of the world
- Uprooted people - refugees, street people, immigrants
Office: 416-978-7806
Email: c.chalin@utoronto.ca
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Donald Jackson
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0976
Website
Email: don.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Kimberly Strong
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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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Laurel MacDowell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-828-5243
Website
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Chemicals Management
- Environmental and human impacts of digital technologies
- Human and ecosystem exposure to chemical contaminants and microplastics
- Indoor environmental quality
- Sources and fate of chemical contaminants and microplastics
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: N/A
Mobile: +1 (416) 573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
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Peter Wells
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Drug-induced birth defects
- Drug-induced cancer
- Fetal oxidative stress in Fetal Alcohol and Autism
- Free radicals in neurodegenerative disease
- Methamphetamine effects on the fetus
- Oxidative stress in neurodegeneration associated with aging
- Risk factors for drug-induced diseases
- Spectrum Disorders (FASD and ASD)
- The role of the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) protein in protecting fetal development
- Toxicology
Office: 416-9783221
Languages: English
Website
Email: pg.wells@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Sarah Wakefield
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community development
- Culture & History
- Environment & Climate
- Environmental justice/just sustainability
- Food access and security
- Food policy and food systems
- Policy & Planning
- Rural
- Social & Political Geography
- Sustainable agriculture
- Urban
- Urban health inequalities
Office: 416-978-3653
Website
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
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Shashi Kant
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal Values and Sustainability
- Ecological Economics
- Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
- Experimental Economics
- Extending the boundaries of forest economics beyond the economics of timber.
- Love and Sustainability
- Quantification and Strategies to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Office: 905-569-5739
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: shashi.kant@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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