Experts by Expertise: Extreme Weather

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8/2/22
Joseph Atkinson
Director of the Great Lakes Program
Expertise: Great Lakes water levels, flooding and water pollution

Phone: 716-645-2220
Email: atkinson@buffalo.edu
10/21/22
Michel Bruneau

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: disaster resilience, multi-hazard engineering, design of infrastructure to resist extreme events, earthquake engineering, design of steel structures, structural engineering
Phone: (716) 645-3398
Email: bruneau@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Susan Spierre Clark

Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: climate change and sustainable development; resilient infrastructure; power outages due to extreme events; sustainability education; community resilience
Phone: 716-645-1403
Email: sclark1@buffalo.edu
1/11/23
Anne B. Curtis
SUNY Distinquished Professor
Expertise: heart health, heart rhythm abnormalities, atrial fibrillation, cardiac devices, pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, cardiac problems in winter

Phone: 716-859-4828
Email: abcurtis@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Negar Elhami-Khorasani

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: structural fire engineering, wildfires in wildland-urban interface communities, fire following earthquake, multi-hazard engineering, disaster resilience
Phone: 716-645-3019
Email: negarkho@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Stuart M. Evans

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: climate change, dust and dust storms, weather, atmospheric science, precipitation, monsoons, lake effect snow

Phone: 716-645-0491
Email: stuartev@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Gregory Homish

Professor and Chair of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: substance use and misuse; substance use among military personnel; substance use and families; emergency preparedness and response; health of emergency responders

Phone: 716-829-6959
Email: ghomish@buffalo.edu
9/24/21
Howard Lasker

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Phone: 716-645-4870
Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu
7/20/22
Pauline Mendola

Professor and Chair of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Expertise: chronic diseases in pregnancy; environmental factors impacting reproductive and pediatric health; health effects of air pollution and extreme temperatures

Phone: 716-829-5356
Email: pmendola@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Sayanti Mukherjee

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: resilient sociotechnical systems, predictive analytics, risk-informed decision-making, public health and health care, electrical grid and energy, climate change impact assessment
Phone: 716-645-4699
Email: sayantim@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Kristin Poinar

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover

Phone: 716-645-4286
Email: kpoinar@buffalo.edu
2/21/22
Riana R. Pryor

Assistant Professor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Expertise: heat and exercise; heat illness, including heat stroke; hydration; high school sports and athlete safety; occupational safety; exercise physiology
Phone: 716-829-5456
Email: rpryor@buffalo.edu
1/24/23
Nicholas Rajkovich

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: climate change and cities; climate adaptation in the Great Lakes region; energy efficiency; renewable energy; climate refuge cities
Phone: 716-829-6910
Email: rajkovic@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Chris S. Renschler

Professor of Geography

Expertise: flooding, soil erosion, watersheds, hurricanes, radioactive fallout, disaster preparedness and response, natural resources management, GIS
Phone: 716-645-0480
Email: rensch@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Joann Sands

Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: disaster response education and training; emergency preparedness and management; the role of nurses in disasters
Phone: 716-829-2342
Email: jsnyder2@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Natalie Simpson
Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: emergency services and disaster response; supply chain risk and resilience; creative and temporary operations; complex networks

Contact: Natalie Simpson can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
11/21/22
Elizabeth K. Thomas

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Arctic ice sheets, precipitation, lake effect snow, sea level rise, monsoons

Phone: 716-645-4329
Email: ekthomas@buffalo.edu