100+ faculty members from across multiple institutions are involved in research projects and programs that are accelerating climate action around the world.
Vanessa Schweizer's research focuses are cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and the design of scenarios for the human dimensions of large-scale environmental change; long-term decision-making such as forecasting and discontinuities; and the influence of occupational, interpersonal, and cultural conflicts on climate change attitudes.
Sherry Schiff studies watershed biogeochemistry and the impact of nutrients and climate change on aquatic ecosystems.
Rebecca Saari's research interests include air pollution, greenhouse gases, and trade; air quality impacts and benefits under energy and climate policy; health impacts of air pollution under future climate; environmental inequality; pollution and policy impacts by income group; and integrated economic, health impact, and air quality modeling.
Michelle Rutty's research interests include tourism, environment and sustainability, understanding the decision-making process and behavioural response of tourists to environmental change, assessing climate change risks and opportunities for tourism operators and destinations, and developing solutions to build a more environmentally sustainable tourism sector.
Horatiu Rus studies international trade, environmental and natural resource economics, international development, and political economy.
Ian Rowlands areas of research include managing energy use effectively and sustainably, Ontario residential energy consumption, renewable electricity in Canada and U.S. solar energy.
Derek Robinson's research interests include land-use and land-cover change, land-management and the carbon cycle, land grabs, land policy, agent-based modelling and geographical information systems.
Omar Ramahi's research interests are radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, interference and electronic packaging, biomedical applications of electromagnetics, photonics, material measurements, antennas, microwaves and photonics, medical imaging, scanning, energy harvesting/bio-energy, renewable energy, sensors and devices, and wireless communications/networking.
Jonathan Price's research interests include peatland/wetland hydrology, peatland construction and restoration, water and solute flux dynamics, and hydrometric, geochemical and remote sensing techniques.
Francis Poulin's research focuses are geophysical fluid dynamics, stochastic differential equations, biological fluid dynamics, and computational mathematics.