Earth is bracing for record-breaking heat in 2026 with an Omega block currently keeping hot air trapped over western Europe. Meanwhile, an El Niño event that could reach “super” status is expected to bring cooler temperatures to eastern Canada and warmer temperatures to western Canada this summer.
Western University has experts available to speak on the science behind extreme heat as well as its potential impacts on food production, health, extreme weather events, the role of climate change and more.
Katrina Eyvindson
Associate Professor and Chair, Geography & Environment
• Climate change education
• Climate change and wildfires
• Climate change and water resources
• Drought
• Environmental change in alpine and arctic regions
Dr. Anna Gunz
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Health effects of wildfire smoke
• Health monitoring of climate change
• Climate change as a health crisis
Gordon McBean
Professor Emeritus, Geography & Environment
• Climate change and wildfires
• Climate change science and policy
• Natural hazards-prediction and mitigation
• Weather and environmental prediction systems
Nicole Redvers
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; Western Research Chair & Director, Indigenous Planetary Health
• Climate change and health impacts
• Indigenous health
• Planetary health
Slobodan P. Simonović
Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Climate change and flooding
• Sustainable development in water resources management
• Hydrology
• Energy
• Climate change and public infrastructure
James Voogt
Professor, Geography & Environment
• Urban heat islands
• Urban heat maps
• Extreme heat
• Mitigating heat in urban areas
• Urban climatology
MEDIA CONTACT: Jacquelyn Mitchell, Media Relations Officer, Western University, (226) 386-9683, j.mitchell@uwo.ca
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