School of the Environment

Beth Savan

Senior Lecturer Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Science
Department
- 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
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
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Bryan Karney

Professor

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

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
- U of T Scarborough
Department
- Physical and Environmental Sciences
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: English,French
Website
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Chalin

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Science
Department
- Ecology and 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
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Kimberly Strong

Professor

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

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
- U of T Mississauga
Department
- Historical Studies
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
Website
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond

Professor

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
- St. George
Faculty
- Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Centres
- School of the Environment

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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