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.

1 Education
2 Teaching Appointments
3 Honours and Awards
4 External Links

[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