School of the Environment

Beth Savan

Senior Lecturer (Emeritus), School of the Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Graduate Faculty Member, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science

Research Associate, Cities Centre and School of Public Policy and Governance

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Public Policy and Governance
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
  • School of the Environment
• Centres
  • School of Cities
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
• Institutional policy on sustainability
• Sustainability

Office: 416 -275- 4745
Mobile: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: French, some Spanish
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bryan Karney

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

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

Areas of Expertise

• Educating engineers
• Pipe breaks and failure in water systems
• Pipelines and hydraulics
• Pumps and pumping stations
• Water and energy systems (particularly hydro-electric)

Office: 416-978-7776
Home: 905-427-9413
Email: bryan.karney@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Carl Mitchell

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
  • Physical & Environmental Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Contaminant transport
• Environmental Contamination
• Hydrology
• Mercury and methylmercury
• Water quality
• Wetlands

Office: (416) 208-2744
Mobile: 647-282-7627
Languages: Some French
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Catherine Chalin

Professor Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • School of the Environment

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Donald Jackson

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Aquatic ecology
• Community ecology
• Fish
• Restoration ecology
• Statistical ecology
• Urban ecology

Office: 416-978-0976
Website
Email: don.jackson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Douglas Macdonald

Senior Lecturer Emeritus, School of Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Business and Canadian environmental politics
• Canadian environmental policy and politics
• Canadian federal-provincial climate change policy

Office: N/A
Home: (416) 686-0773
Email: douglas.macdonald@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Hilary Cunningham Scharper

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Anthropology of animals
• Boundary trees
• Critical border studies
• Eco-gothic
• Ecophobia
• Multi-species ethnography
• Nature and culture
• Posthumanism
• Social ecology

Office: 416-978-0472
Website
Email: hilary.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

John Robinson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Academic/community partnerships
• Behaviour change
• Climate change
• Climate change mitigation
• Participatory community engagement
• Scenario analysis and futures studies
• Social and technological change
• Sustainability
• Sustainable Buildings and Cities

Office: N/A
Email: johnb.robinson@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kimberly Strong

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic atmospheric science
• Atmospheric measurements
• Atmospheric physics
• Balloons
• Climate change
• Ozone depletion
• Remote sounding of the atmosphere (ground satellites)
• Tropospheric pollution

Office: 416-946-3217
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Laurel MacDowell

Professor Emerita

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Historical Studies (UTM)
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian labour history and relations
• North American environmental history

Office: 905-828-5243
Home: 416-487-5681
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Miriam Diamond

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Earth Sciences
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Air and water pollution
• Cities
• Environmental destruction & contamination
• Human exposure
• Impact of COVID-19 on climate change
• Impact of war on environmental pollution
• Indoor environment
• Infrastructure damage & long-term health impacts
• Toxic Chemicals

Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peter Wells

Professor, Division of Biomolecular Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Division of Biomolecular Sciences
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Drug-induced birth defects
• Drug-induced cancer
• Fetal oxidative stress in Fetal Alcohol and Autism Spectrum Disorders (FASD and ASD)
• Free radicals in neurodegenerative disease
• Methamphetamine effects on the fetus
• Oxidative stress in neurodegeneration associated with aging
• Risk factors for drug-induced diseases
• Role of the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) protein in protecting fetal development
• Toxicology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: pg.wells@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sarah Wakefield

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
• Centres
  • School of Cities
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Community development
• Environmental justice/just sustainability
• Food access and security
• Food policy and food systems
• Social & Political Geography
• Sustainable agriculture
• Urban health inequalities

Office: 416-978-3653
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shashi Kant

Professor, Faculty of Forestry

Director, Master of Science in Sustainability Management Program

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies
  • Institute for Management & Innovation (UTM)
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Economics and natural resources
• Forest resource economics
• Sustainability Management

Office: 416-978-6196
Home: 416-546-1861
Languages: Hindi
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Steve M Easterbrook

Director of the School of the Environment

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences
• 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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online