{"id":738,"date":"2009-08-10T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T03:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T19:54:02","slug":"digital-media-and-climate-change-research-at-u-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/08\/digital-media-and-climate-change-research-at-u-of-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Media and Climate Change Research at U of T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tasked with identifying people and initiatives across campus that are involved in Digital Media and Climate Change\/Environment. It&#8217;s part of a push by the University for <a title=\"Press release on Ontario's innovation agenda, in which digital media gets a prominent shout-out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.utoronto.ca\/health-and-medicine\/u-of-t-prepared-for-ontarios-new-innovation-agenda.html\" target=\"_blank\">greater funding for digital media research<\/a>. And as everyone seems to interpret the term digital media differently, I&#8217;m going to give it the broadest possible interpretation: if it involves doing things with computers (either as a primary research tool or as an object of study), it counts as digital media. Here&#8217;s my list of faculty across the University who are doing relevant research. Feel free to suggest more people, or to rearrange my categories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Understanding Climate Change through Earth Systems Modeling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"William Gough's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/gough\/outline-wg\" target=\"_blank\">William Gough<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Sharon Cowling's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/cowling\/outline-sc\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Cowling<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Danny Harvey's website\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/Harvey\/Harvey\/research_interests.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Harvey<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Scott Munro's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/munro\/outline-sm\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Munro<\/a>, <a title=\"Jing's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/Chen\/Chen's%20homepage\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jing Chen<\/a>, <a title=\"John's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/desloges\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Desloges<\/a>, Geography;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dick's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca\/~peltier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Peltier<\/a>, <a title=\"Ted's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca\/~tgs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Shepherd<\/a>, <a title=\"Website for Jones' lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca\/~jones\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Jones<\/a>, <a title=\"Paul's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/pjk.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Kushner<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Kent Moore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca\/people\/moore\/moore.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Moore<\/a>, Physics<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jonathan Abbatt's research group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.utoronto.ca\/staff\/ABBATT\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Abbatt<\/a>,\u00a0Chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Greg Evans and the S. Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socaar.utoronto.ca\/personnel\/Management.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Evans<\/a>, Chemical Engineering<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Steve's page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~sme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Easterbrook<\/a>, Computer Science<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"John's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.utoronto.ca\/people\/jcaspersen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Caspersen<\/a>, <a title=\"Sean's lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.utoronto.ca\/thomas\/ThomasMain.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Thomas<\/a>, Forestry<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"John's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csb.utoronto.ca\/faculty\/coleman-john-r\" target=\"_blank\">John Coleman<\/a>, Cell &amp; Systems Biology<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"George's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eeb.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/arhonditsis\" target=\"_blank\">George Arhonditsis<\/a>, Ecological Modeling Lab, UTSC<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ulrich's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geology.utoronto.ca\/Members\/wortmann\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulrich Wortmann<\/a>, Geology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Adaptation and Impacts Research Division\" href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.utoronto.ca\/Research\/FacultyResearch\/AIRD.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Bass and Monirul Mirza<\/a> at the Centre for the Environment<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Marie-Josee's lab pages\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.eeb.utoronto.ca\/fortin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marie-Josee Fortin<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Arthur's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eeb.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/weis\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Weis<\/a>, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Miriam's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/mdiamond\/drDiamond.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam Diamond<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Virginia's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/maclaren\/outline-vm\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia MacLaren<\/a>, Dept of Geography<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0<a title=\"EAST project website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unurce-toronto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Education Alliance for a Sustainable Toronto (EAST)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earth Systems Management (as in: how we manage forests, water supplies, land use, etc)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"David Martell's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firelab.utoronto.ca\/people\/dlm.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Martell<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Mike Wotton's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firelab.utoronto.ca\/people\/bmw.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Wotton<\/a>, (FireLab) and\u00a0<a title=\"Shashi Kant's research group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.utoronto.ca\/people\/shashi_site\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shashi Kant<\/a> in the\u00a0<a title=\"Faculty of Forestry main site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Forestry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"BJ Adams' bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/adams.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Adams<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Brent Sleep's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/sleep.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Sleep<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"PH Byer's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/byer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Byer<\/a>, <a title=\"Bryan's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/karney.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Karney<\/a> (Water\/hydrology), Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tenley Conway's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/conway\/outline-tc\" target=\"_blank\">Tenley Conway<\/a>, (land use and urbanization) Dept of Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sustainable design and energy management (e.g. architectural design, urban planning, etc)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Beth Savan, Directory of the Sustainability Office\" href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.utoronto.ca\/about\/people\/director.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Beth Savan<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Sarah's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/wakefield\/outline-sw\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Wakefield<\/a> at the UofT Sustainability Office (e.g.\u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"The St George GHG inventory\" href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.utoronto.ca\/projects\/ghg.htm\" target=\"_blank\">St George Campus Greenhouse Gas Inventory<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tom Bessai Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daniels.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/bios\/tom_bessai\">Tom Bessai<\/a>, <a title=\"John Danahy Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daniels.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/bios\/john_w_danahy\" target=\"_blank\">John Danahy<\/a>, <a title=\"Ted Kesik Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daniels.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/bios\/ted_kesik\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Kesik<\/a>, Faculty of Architecture<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Danny Harvey's website\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/Harvey\/Harvey\/research_interests.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Harvey<\/a>, Dept of Geography<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Matt's page at the iSchool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ischool.utoronto.ca\/users\/mattratto\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Ratto<\/a>, iSchool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sustainable Transportation Systems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Eric Miller's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/miller.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Miller<\/a> (modeling)\u00a0<a title=\"Shalaby's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/shalaby.htm\" target=\"_blank\">A. S. Shalaby<\/a>, (simulations)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca\/infoabout\/staff\/professors\/maclean.htm\">Heather MacLean<\/a> (lifecycle analysis),\u00a0Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Informatics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Don Boyes' homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.geog.utoronto.ca\/Boyes\/Boyes\/Index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Don Boyes<\/a>, <a title=\"Vincent Robinson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/robinson\/outline-vr\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Robinson<\/a>,Department of Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Policy and Decision Making<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Ingrid Stefanovic's page at the Philosophy Dept\" href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/ingrid-l-stefanovic\" target=\"_blank\">Ingrid Stefanovic<\/a> at the Centre for the Environment<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Anthony Wensley's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rotman.utoronto.ca\/facbios\/viewFac.asp?facultyID=wensley\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Wensley<\/a>, Rotman<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Steven's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/ir.mcis.utoronto.ca\/faculty\/bernstein.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Bernstein<\/a>, Munk Centre<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Greg's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/cel.mie.utoronto.ca\/people\/gaj\/bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Jamieson<\/a>, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eric's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ischool.utoronto.ca\/users\/ericyu\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Yu<\/a>, Faculty of Information<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Cities Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citiescentre.utoronto.ca\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Cities Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tasked with identifying people and initiatives across campus that are involved in Digital Media and Climate Change\/Environment. It&#8217;s part of a push by the University for greater funding for digital media research. And as everyone seems to interpret the term digital media differently, I&#8217;m going to give it the broadest possible interpretation: if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}