As wildfires spread across western Canada and parts of Ontario, Carleton experts are available to comment on related subjects.
If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to contact them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.
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Marzieh Amini
Professor, School of Information Technology at Carleton University
Email: marziehamini@cunet.carleton.ca
Amini is pioneering a solution to extract important information that can save lives from the sea of social media posts during disasters.
During a disaster, social media offers a wealth of information, ranging from posts detailing first responder actions and evacuee routes to reports of damaged infrastructure and affected areas. This data can aid first responders and utility crews. However, important insights are often mixed with irrelevant information.
This has the potential to provide first responders with real-time, actionable insights to help them figure out where to go, who’s been affected and what barriers exist for providing help.
For more on Amini, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/marzieh-amini
Amir Hakami
Professor, Environmental Engineering at Carleton University
Email: amir_hakami@carleton.ca
Hakami is available to discuss the air pollution caused by the fires and its spread across Canada. Hakami’s research areas include air quality modelling in support of policy-making, formal sensitivity analysis in air quality modelling, inverse modelling and data assimilation, and uncertainty analysis.
He uses mathematical models to represent processes that are responsible for the transport and transformation of pollutants in the atmosphere. One objective of his work is to provide policy-makers with the best strategy to reduce air pollution.
For more on Hakami, visit: https://carleton.ca/cee/cu-people/amir-hakami/
Chris Russill
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Email: Chris.Russill@carleton.ca
Russill is an academic director at Re.Climate, a centre for climate communication and public engagement at Carleton. His current work focuses on problems of disinformation and denial in their relevance to climate action.
Russill has published a study on climate misinformation that took place during the wildfires of 2023.
For more on Russill, visit: https://carleton.ca/sjc/profile/russill-chris/
Gabriel Wainer
Professor, Systems and Computing Engineering at Carleton University
Email: Gabriel.Wainer@sce.carleton.ca
Wainer works on modelling methods with various real-world applications – including large-scale evacuations, wildfires and the spread of smoke from fires. He is available to discuss how wildfires are modelled for prediction and prevention. Wainer is the head of the Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab, located at Carleton’s Centre for Advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim).
For more on Wainer, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/gabriel-wainer
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Experts Available
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