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Allyson Bingeman is a water resources engineer with over 13 years of experience in hydrologic modelling of surface water systems (rivers and stormwater systems), and hydraulic modelling of rivers, stormwater systems, and wastewater collection systems, including floodplain mapping. Her experience includes both one-dimensional and two-dimensional hydraulic modelling. She is proficient at numerical model development including model setup, model parameterization, model calibration and validation, and model analysis.

She also has experience in climate change analysis. Allyson has developed existing Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves from historical data and also reviewed Global Climate Model (GCM) output to derive future climate change IDF curves for multiple clients in Canada. She has also derived future climate time series data for multiple climatic variables including air temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, evaporation, and snowfall. These data have been used in various applications including hydrologic and hydraulic models for rivers, stormwater, and wastewater systems. She also has expertise in rainfall and streamflow QA/QC, single station and regional frequency analysis, and stationary and non-stationary frequency analysis.

Allyson is the author and co-author of several scientific publications. Allyson has served as hydraulic modelling lead for multiple stormwater and wastewater projects. Out of the office, you will often find Allyson spending time with her family and reading good books!

Bruce Taylor is the founder and President of Enviro-Stewards Inc., which is a social venture that has been selected by B lab as one of the Best Companies for the World and by the UN Global Compact Network Canada for their Sustainable Development Goal award. Enviro-Stewards’ projects for Tim Hortons, Andrew Peller, Southbrook Winery, Dextran, Maple Leaf Foods, Maple Lodge, Campbell Company of Canada and a food loss project at 50 Food Processors have each won Clean50 national sustainability awards.

Mr. Taylor graduated from U of W in chemical engineering, is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and was selected as the top sustainability consultant in Canada (Clean 16) for 2022. He has 31 years of experience in the fields of water and energy conservation, pollution prevention, sustainable development and treatment process design. He has won the highest awards in the Pollution Prevention field in both Canada and the United States.

In 2004, Enviro-Stewards founded the Safe Water Social Venture Project to empower communities in South Sudan and Uganda to construct water purification systems using locally available materials. The locally owned and operated projects are taught business principles and sales techniques to help local residents understand that investing in safe water is typically 10 times less expensive than their current expenditures on water related illnesses.

Dr. Johns is currently the Interim Director of the School of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation. She was the inaugural Graduate Program Director (GPD) of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Policy Studies, and has served as GPD of the MA program in Public Policy and Administration and the Undergraduate Program Director of the Public Administration and Governance program.

Dr. Johns is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on a new Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters with University of Michigan and McMaster University which received joint funding  from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  This 5 year project (2024-2029) focuses on interdisciplinary research and climate vulnerable communities in the Great Lakes region and other North American and global transboundary water regions.

Dr. Johns also serves as Chair of the Geoffrey Bruce Fellowships Program in Canadian Freshwater Policy; as a member of the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board (external link)  (external link) ; and as a member of Toronto Met Urban Water.

In 2024 Mr. Goffin joined Toronto Metropolitan University as Water Policy Fellow in the School of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation and affiliated with the Bruce Fellowships in Canadian Freshwater Policy.

Prior to joining Toronto Metropolitan University Mr. Goffin spent more than forty-years in the Public Service of Canada, with Environment and Climate Change Canada, during which time he was engaged in policy develop and program delivery in a wide variety of areas including environmental protection, wildlife management, meteorology, water and ecosystem management, intergovernmental affairs, Indigenous relations and community outreach and engagement.

For more almost twenty years Mr. Goffin was responsible for leading Canada’s efforts to restore and protect the water quality and aquatic ecosystem health of the Great Lakes and in 2012 he was lead negotiator for Canada responsible for negotiation of the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.  In 2020 Mr. Goffin took on a new role, leading the creation of the Canada Water Agency.

Mr. Goffin received his undergraduate training in environmental studies from the University of Toronto, and has a Master of Science degree in Geomorphology, also from the University of Toronto.