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
  • 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
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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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John Robinson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Department
  • Geography and 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
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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

• Arctic atmospheric science
• Arctic Atmospheric Science: PEARL, CANDAC, and PAHA
• Atmospheric measurements
• Atmospheric physics
• Balloons
• 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
• How are balloons controlled?
• Identifying objects using debris
• Intracavity laser spectroscopy using a Fourier transform spectrometer in step-scan mode for temporal resolution
• 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
• Remote sounding of the atmosphere (ground 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)
• Tropospheric pollution
• Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Laboratory Spectroscopy
• Weather balloons

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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Earth Sciences
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

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: +1 (416) 978-1586
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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Sarah Wakefield

Professor

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

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
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Institute for Management and Innovation
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies
  • Institute for Management & Innovation (UTM)
  • School of the Environment

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
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Computer Science
• 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: 416-978-6526
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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