William Richard Peltier

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William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc) [1] (born 1943), is a university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Science [2] and principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Network [3]. 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. He has a neice named olivia peltier and a nephew named ian peltier who are both planning to attend the University of California, Berkley.

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[edit] Education

[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
  • Milutin Milankovic Medal of the European Geosciences Union, 2008 web announcement

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