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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416 -275- 4745
Mobile: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: French, some Spanish
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Bryan Karney
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Educating engineers
- Energy systems
- Particularly hydro-electric
- Pipe breaks and failure
- Pipelines and hydraulics
- Pumps and pumping stations
Office: 416-978-7776
Home: 905-427-9413
Email: bryan.karney@utoronto.ca
Carl Mitchell
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Contaminant transport
- Environmental Contamination
- Hydrology
- Mercury and methylmercury
- Water quality
- Wetlands
Office: Not available
Home: 647-341-9018
Mobile: 647-282-7627
Languages: Some French
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
Catherine Chalin
Professor 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
Donald Jackson
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0976
Home: 416-486-6745
Website
Email: don.jackson@utoronto.ca
Douglas Macdonald
Senior lecturer, School of Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Business and environmental politics
- Canadian climate change policy and politics
- Canadian environmental policy and politics
Office: 416-978-1558
Email: douglas.macdonald@utoronto.ca
Hilary Cunningham Scharper
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
John Robinson
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change
- Climate change mitigation
- Climate modelling
- Social and technological change
- Sustainability
Office: 416-946-8936
Email: johnb.robinson@utoronto.ca
Kimberly Strong
Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
Laurel MacDowell
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-828-5243
Home: 416-487-5681
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Cities
- Human exposure
- Impact of COVID-19 on climate change
- Indoor environment
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
Peter Wells
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- A new role for the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) protein in protecting fetal development
- 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
- Toxicology
Office: 416-978-3221
Website
Email: pg.wells@utoronto.ca
Sarah Wakefield
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-3653
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Shashi Kant
Professor, Faculty of Forestry
Director, Master of Science in Sustainability Management Program
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6196
Home: 416-546-1861
Languages: Hindi
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
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