From flooding to wildfires and everything in between, extreme weather events have been making headlines worldwide this summer.
Western University has experts available to comment on the science behind these events as well as impacts on health and property, mitigating damage and more.
Extreme heat
James Voogt
Professor, Geography & Environment
- Urban heat islands
- Urban heat maps
- Extreme heat
- Mitigating heat in urban areas
- Urban climatology
Flooding
Glenn McGillivray
Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
- Mitigation of flooding
- Protection of homes from flooding
- Disaster risk reduction
- Climate change adaption
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
Tornadoes
Greg Kopp
Professor, Engineering; Director of the Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory
- Tornadoes, windstorms, hailstorms, extreme weather
- Mitigating damage to structures in extreme wind
- Climate change
David Sills
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Executive Director of the Northern Tornadoes Project
- Weather alert systems in Canada
- Atmospheric science
- Changing nature of severe weather in Canada
Wildfires
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 impact
- Indigenous health
- Planetary health
MEDIA CONTACT: Jacquelyn Mitchell, Media Relations Officer, Western University, (226) 386-9683, j.mitchell@uwo.ca
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