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SCC Scientific Advisory Panel
Sierra Club Canada (SCC) has assembled a panel whose mandate is to provide scientific expert advice and consultation to SCC on its programs and campaigns.
These experts lend their knowledge and expertise to Sierra Club of Canada campaigns.
Members of the Panel are:
Dr. Jim Bruce, Canadian Policy Representative of Soil and Water Conservation Society
Jim Bruce served in increasingly responsible positions in Environment Canada, from hydrometeorological research, first Director Canada Centre for Inland Waters, to his final 8 years at the Assistant Deputy Minister level.
He has been; the Director of Technical Cooperation and Acting Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Chair of the UN Scientific and Technical Committee for International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction; Chair of the Working Group 3 (Economic and Social Aspects) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Chair of the Canadian Climate Program Board.
He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and of the American Meteorological Society.
Dr. Ian Burton, Scientist Emeritus with the Meteorological Service of Canada
Ian Burton is a leading Canadian and international expert on climate change adaptation, and also writes on natural hazards and disasters, environmental risks, especially in the health and water fields. His PhD is from the University of Chicago and he is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and a Scientist Emeritus with the Meteorological Service of Canada.
Ian is a Lead Author for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report, Working Group II (chapter on key vulnerabilities), and has recently served as a consultant with the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, and the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is author and co-author of several books and over 150 professional papers. His main work now centres of the role of science in the policy process.
Dr. Kate Davies, Associate Director at the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle
Kate Davies, M.A., D.Phil., is Core Faculty in Environment & Community and Associate Director at the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle. She has a D.Phil. in biochemistry from Oxford University and an M.A. in Human and Organizational Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Since moving to Seattle in 2002, she has served as a member of the Department of Ecology’s Rule Making Committee on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation, the Steering Committee for the Collaborative for Health and the Environment Washington, the Advisory Board of Directors of the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health, the Health and Environmental Committee of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and several professional associations.
Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D., D.Path., D.T.M&H, Professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago and Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.
Dr. Epstein is an internationally recognized authority on the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, the causes and prevention of cancer, and the toxic and carcinogenic effects of environmental pollutants in air, water, soil and the workplace, and of ingredients and contaminants in consumer products—food, cosmetics and toiletries, household products—and related public policy concerns. He has published some 270 peer reviewed scientific articles, and authored or co-authored twelve books.
Dr. Epstein’s activities in the interface between science and public policy include: the lead expert witness involved in the banning of DDT; EPA's key expert witness involved in the banning of hazardous products and pesticides, including Aldrin and Chlordane.
Dr. Epstein's awards include the 1998 Right Livelihood Award (the alternative Nobel Prize), and the 2005 Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for International Contributions to Cancer Prevention.
Dr. Tim Lambert, University of Calgary (epidemiologist, health and environment)
Dr. Lambert received his Ph.D. in Public Health Science from the University of Alberta in 1998. His dissertation focussed on developing a theoretical perspective for ethics and public health practice, with particular focus on risk communication and risk assessment.
He has been the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) representative in the Canada Wide Standards for benzene, particulate matter and ozone, and mercury, CPHA representative on the Environment Canada’s advisory committee for Environmental Performance Agreements, and the 5 year review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Dr. Lambert is Chair of the People’s Health Commission, evaluating the impact of a century of coke and steel production on the residential community surrounding the Sydney Tar Ponds.
Dr. Donna Mergler, University of Quebec at Montreal (neurotoxicologist)
Donna Mergler is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a member of the research group CINBIOSE (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la biologie, la santé, la société et l’environnement), a World Health Organisation and Pan-American Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Illness.
She received her doctorate in neurophysiology from McGill University in the early seventies and since then her research has focused on early neurotoxic effects of exposure to workplace and environmental pollutants.
Dr. William Rees, Simon Fraser University
William Rees received his PhD in ecology from the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning since 1970 and served as Director of the School from 1994 to 1999. Prof Rees’ teaching and research focus on the policy implications of global change and the (present) fallacy of sustainable development.
As an ecological economist, he perhaps best known for pioneering the ‘ecological footprint’ concept a quantitative tool that is now used by government agencies and non-government organizations around the world to assess progress toward sustainability. Prof Rees has been invited to lecture on his work across Canada and the US and in 20 other countries.
Dr. Lino Grima
Lino Grima is a semi-retired professor at the University of Toronto, a member of the Toronto-East York Local Health Committee, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Great Lakes Research and the Canadian Water Resources Journal.
His rewarding career includes teaching and consulting in a dozen countries on four continents. His publications focus on the Great Lakes, water demand-side management, risk communication and other aspects of environmental management. In spite of many emerging critical issues, Professor Grima is optimistic about sustainable development in the planet we call home.
Dr. Verdat Verter, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Faculty of Management, McGill University
Dr. Verter is an Associate Professor of Operations Management in McGill’s Faculty of Management. His research focuses on four themes: Closed-loop supply chain design and management; Healthcare operations management; Transportation of hazardous materials; and Facility location in service sector.
Dr. Verter is currently leading a Canadian research team on manufacturing sustainability as well as an International research team on dangerous goods transportation. He has published extensively in scholarly academic journals and presented his work across the globe.
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