Canada’s wildfire season is underway with fires in multiple provinces including Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Western University has the following experts available to discuss wildfires, their impacts and how to protect property.
Tresah Antaya
Postdoctoral Associate, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health effects of air pollution, epidemiology of neurological diseases
Dr. Anurag Bhalla
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Effect of wildfire smoke on asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, airway infections.
Dr. Jorge Burneo
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Jack Cowin Epilepsy Research Chair
Areas of expertise: Health effects of air pollution, wildfires and neurological health, neuro-epidemiology.
Katrina Eyvindson
Associate Professor and Chair, Geography & Environment
Areas of expertise: Role of climate change in wildfires, drought, climate warming impact on water resources.
Dr. Anna Gunz
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health effects of wildfire smoke, health monitoring of climate change, climate change as a health crisis.
Alan MacEachern
Professor, History
Areas of expertise: Lessons from the history of wildfires in Canada, environmental and climate history.
Gordon McBean
Professor Emeritus, Geography & Environment
Areas of expertise: Climate change and wildfires, climate change science and policy, natural hazards-prediction and mitigation, weather and environmental prediction systems.
Glenn McGillivray
Managing Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Areas of expertise: Wildfire protection of property, property insurance and risk, climate change adaption, disaster resilience.
Reza Najafi
Associate Professor, Engineering
Areas of expertise: Drought influence on wildfires, intensity and frequency of hydroclimatic extremes, climate change and water systems.
Nicole Redvers
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western Research Chair and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health
Areas of expertise: Indigenous health, planetary health, impact of forest fires in Indigenous communities.
Maged Youseff
Professor, Engineering
Areas of expertise: Structural fire engineering, sustainable structures and extreme events, effects of wildfires on structures, fire resiliency.
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