William Richard Peltier
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Dr. William Richard Peltier is University Professor and Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto. He is Director of the Centre for Global Change Science [1] and Principal Investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Network [2]. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Geophysical Union.
His research interests include: atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence, geophysical fluid dynamics, physics of the planetary interior, and planetary climate.
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[edit] Education
- 1967 B.Sc., University of British Columbia
- 1969 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Toronto
- 1971 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Toronto
[edit] Teaching Appointments
- 1971-72 Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
- 1973-74 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
- 1974-77 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
- 1978 Visiting Professor, Geophysics and Space Physics, U.C.L.A.
- 1978-79 Steacie Fellowship Leave, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
- 1977-79 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
- 1979-93 Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
- 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellowship Leave, DAMTP and Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge University, U.K.
- 1993- University Professor, University of Toronto
- 2002-2003 Sabattical Leave, Professeur Invité, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris VII
- 2004 Professor Invité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris VII
- 2005-present Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo
[edit] Honours and Awards
- Distinguished Lecturer of the Canadian Geophysical Union, 1999-2000
- Elected as Foreign Member to Fellowship in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2004
- Bancroft Award of the Royal Society of Canada, 2004
- J. Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union, 2004
- Leiv Erikson Fellow, Norwegian Research Council, Bjerknes Institute for Climate Research, Univ. of Bergen, 2006
- Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, 2006
[edit] External Links
- Home page
- University Professor
- Science Watch #5 most cited in geosciences, 1991-2001
- March 27, 2007 Toronto Star article "Reassessing the gravity of the situation" [3]
