{"id":79973,"date":"2021-11-24T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=79973"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:21","slug":"carleton-experts-available-b-c-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-experts-available-b-c-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: B.C. Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Experts Available: B.C. Flooding\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As flooding continues in B.C. and the impact becomes better understood, Carleton experts are available to comment on a variety of related issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graeme Auld<br>\n<\/strong>Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, with a cross appointment in the Institute of Political Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:graeme.auld@carleton.ca\">graeme.auld@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auld\u2019s expertise includes, comparative and global environmental politics and policy, international political economy, transnational private governance and private regulation, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and natural resource governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Auld, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/graeme-auld\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/graeme-auld\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kamal Hossain<br>\n<\/strong>Professor of Pavement Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:kamal.hossain@carleton.ca\">kamal.hossain@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hossain\u2019s expertise is in the area of road and pavement infrastructure engineering and he has recently supervised a graduate thesis on how climate change will impact road and pavement performance.&nbsp;He would be happy to discuss how the roads\/pavement in B.C. have been affected by flooding\/mud slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Hossain, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cee\/people\/hossain-kamal\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cee\/people\/hossain-kamal\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gary Martin<br>\n<\/strong>Instructor, Sprott School of Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:GaryMartin@cmail.carleton.ca\">GaryMartin@cmail.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin is starting a new project looking at flood risk and development politics in Ottawa. His focus is on residential sustainability and sustainable urbanism, how houses are built and neighbourhoods are planned to survive extreme weather events brought on by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Martin is only available to answer questions submitted to him by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Meadowcroft<br>\n<\/strong>Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:James.Meadowcroft@carleton.ca\">James.Meadowcroft@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meadowcroft is available to discuss ongoing climate change and the impact those changes may have going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meadowcroft is also available to discuss energy transition. His recent work focuses on energy and the transition to a low carbon society and includes publications on carbon capture and storage (CCS), smart grids, the development of Ontario\u2019s electricity system, the politics of socio-technical transitions and negative carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Meadowcroft, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/james-meadowcroft\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/james-meadowcroft\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scott Mitchell<\/strong><br>\nProfessor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:scott.mitchell@carleton.ca\">scott.mitchell@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell can discuss changes to extreme weather in the context of climate change, especially as it relates to agricultural production.&nbsp;His expertise spans diverse subjects such as spatial pattern and environmental processes, global change impacts on agriculture, and biodiversity and ecosystem services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Mitchell, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/mitchell-scott\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/mitchell-scott\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marylynn Steckley<br>\n<\/strong>Instructor, Bachelor of Global and International Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:marylynn.steckley@carleton.ca\">marylynn.steckley@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckley is happy to discuss climate change\/disasters in a broad sense, and especially the discord between personal experiences of climate change and social perceptions of climate change outside of the impacted community, we often minimize disasters that we don&#8217;t experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information of Steckley, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/people\/marylynn-steckley\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/people\/marylynn-steckley\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid (he\/him)<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As flooding continues in B.C. and the impact becomes better understood, Carleton experts are available to comment on a variety of related issues. Graeme Auld Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, with a cross appointment in the Institute of Political Economy Email: graeme.auld@carleton.ca Auld\u2019s expertise includes, comparative and global environmental politics and policy, international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":79975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[176,89,136,94,96],"class_list":["post-79973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-civil-and-environmental-engineering","tag-geography-and-environmental-studies","tag-global-and-international-studies","tag-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79977,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973\/revisions\/79977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}