Biography - Richard Peltier
 Dr. W. Richard Peltier
Director,
Centre
for Global Change
Science
University of Toronto
W. Richard Peltier
DSc, FRSC, received his
undergraduate degree in physics
from the University of British
Columbia and his doctoral degree
in physics from the University of
Toronto. His research is focused
on problems connected with
the understanding of processes
that control the evolution of
the atmosphere, the oceans
and the solid Earth, and of long
timescale and more recent
climate variability. Peltier is
a past recipient of the Sloan,
Steacie, Killam and Guggenheim
Fellowships, is Past President
of the Canadian Geophysical
Union, Past President of the IUGG
Committee on Mathematical
Geophysics, and is an elected
Fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and the
American Meteorological Society.
He is also a past recipient of
the Kirk Bryan Award of the
Geological Society of America,
the Patterson Medal of the
Meteorological Service of Canada,
the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal of
the Canadian Geophysical
Union, and the Bancroft Award
and the Miroslav Romanowski
Medal of the Royal Society of
Canada. In 2009 he was awarded
the Canadian Association
of Physicists Gold Medal for
Achievement in Physics. In 2004
he was the recipient of the
Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger
Vetlesen Foundation of New
York, often considered to be the
equivalent of the Nobel Prize
in the Earth Sciences. He was a
Lead Author on the IPCC Fourth
Assessment Report entitled
Climate Change 2007. His current
position is as University Professor
and Professor of Physics at the
University of Toronto where he
is the Founding Director of the
newly established Centre for
Global Change Science and the
Scientific Director of the SciNet
Facility for High Performance
Computation, the most powerful
computing facility in Canada. |
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