Tuviere Onookome-Okome

Tuviere is a graduate student at McGill University’s department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Environment and more specifically in the Ecological Determinants of Health. She was born in Calabar, Nigeria and spent the other half of her childhood in Edmonton, Alberta. She is passionate about the intersection of environment and human health especially as it pertains to the Black community and specifically how social and political institutions contribute to increased exposure to dangerous environment agents and the negative effect on overall health in this community. Tuviere aspires to work at the intersection of research and policy as we transition to a more equitable and just society.

Tuviere worked with Data-Driven Lab to explore urban sustainability and the intersection of social inclusion and climate action.

Community Engagement Initiative

In a collaborative survey with SC Fellow Ellen Spannagel, Tuviere and Ellen’s CEI was a survey on the experiences of people in heat waves in Montréal. The target audience was residents of the Island of Montréal. The medium of a survey for the CEI was selected given its ability to be easily shared and was disseminated with repeated and ongoing outreach over a period of one month between mid-July and mid-August, 2021. The survey was disseminated in both French and English. Overall, the survey received 38 responses, including 31 responses in English, and 7 responses in French. Read the Report: Montreal Heat Wave Survey.

Report

Urban Heat Island: Mitigating the Worst of Increasing Temperatures in Montréal

This research sought to explore the relationship between income levels in different neighborhoods in the Canadian city of Montréal through the use of heat sensors placed around the city. As a whole, this research found that lower income neighbourhoods in Montréal experience increased heat during the summer months, and especially during heat waves. Further, through this study’s validation analysis, it was found that temperature from satellite estimates are generally in agreement with ground-level estimates of temperature. This study provides further proof that satellites can be an easy and reliable way to measure temperature.  

Keywords

Heat, heatwaves, Montréal, income disparities, satellite tracking, human health, climate change.