As extreme heat is forecasted to continue in southern Ontario and a potential heat dome builds across parts of the United States, Western University has experts available to speak with media on a range of topics related to extreme heat, including health impacts and vulnerable populations, the science behind heat domes and the broader context of climate change and mitigation strategies.
Health impacts and vulnerable populations
Dr. Anna Gunz
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health impacts of extreme heat, paediatric health and heat, health monitoring of climate change, climate change as a health crisis.
Abe Oudshoorn
Associate Professor, Nursing
Areas of expertise: Extreme heat and homelessness, extreme heat and vulnerable populations, community health, global health.
Heat and climate
James Voogt
Professor, Geography and Environment
Areas of expertise: Urban heat islands and urban heat maps, cities and extreme heat, mitigating heat in urban areas, urban climatology.
Gordon McBean
Professor Emeritus, Geography and Environment
Areas of expertise: Heat domes, climate change and extreme heat, climate change science and policy, natural hazards-prediction and mitigation, weather and environmental prediction systems.
David Sills
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Executive Director of the Northern Tornadoes Project
Areas of expertise: Heat domes and storms, tornadoes, atmospheric science, changing nature of severe weather in Canada.
Climate solutions
Joshua Pearce
Professor, Engineering, Ivey Business School; John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation
Areas of expertise: Solar technology for climate solutions, agrivoltaics, mortality related to carbon emissions, carbon emissions liability.
For additional topics and experts please visit our Find an Expert page: https://mediarelations.uwo.ca/find-an-expert/
MEDIA CONTACT:
Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca
