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ATSC Faculty Members
| Core Faculty | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Allen | Phil Austin | Neil Balmforth | Allan Bertram |
| Andrew Black | Andreas Christen | Simon Donner | William Hsieh |
| Ian McKendry | Mike Novak | Tim Oke | Rich Pawlowicz |
| Douw Steyn | Roland Stull | ||
| Additional Faculty | |||
| Michael
Brauer (Associate Faculty) |
Kendall Bushe (Associate Faculty) |
Alex
Cannon (Adjunct Faculty) |
Sheldon Green
(Associate Faculty) |
| Felix
Herrmann (Associate Faculty) |
Mark Holzer
(Adjunct Faculty) |
Peter Jackson
(Associate Faculty) |
Bernard Laval
(Associate Faculty) |
| Gregory
Lawrence (Associate Faculty) |
Dave
McClung (Associate Faculty) |
Doug McCollor (Adjunct Faculty) |
Ian
Okabe (Adjunct Faculty) |
| Knut von
Salzen (Adjunct Faculty) |
Christian
Schoof (Associate Faculty) |
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| Allen, Susan E. (Earth and Ocean Sciences) |
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| Associate Professor (b. 1963); BSc Queen's (1984); PhD Cambridge (P. F. Linden, 1989) |
| Research: Mesoscale oceanography and meteorology; effects of topography and geometry: theory of subinertial waves, buoyancy driven currents; upwelling, particle trapping, frontal stability. |
| Teaching: Dynamic meteorology, dynamic oceanography, advanced physical oceanography. |
| Room: EOS - South 253 |
| E-mail: 'sallen' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Allen.html |
| Austin, Philip H. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Geography), Associate Chair of Atmospheric Science |
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| Associate Professor (b. 1957); BA Whitman (1979); PhD Washington (M. B. Baker, 1987); Postdoctoral: NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center (Arking, 1987-88) |
| Research: Cloud physics: cloud-climate feedback, thermodynamic and dynamic structure of clouds, remote sensing. |
| Teaching: Atmospheric thermodynamics, cloud physics, remote sensing, climate change. |
| Room: EOS - South 155 |
| E-mail: 'paustin' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/P.Austin.html and http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~phil/ |
| Balmforth, Neil J. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Mathematics) |
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| Professor (b. 1965); BSc London (1986); PhD Cambridge (1990); Postdoctoral: Columbia University (E. A. Spiegel, 1991-92), University of Texas at Austin (P. J. Morrison, 1993-94) |
| Research: Astrophysics, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, geological fluids, non-Newtonian fluids. |
| Teaching: Fluid mechanics, mathematical methods. |
| Room: EOS - South 357 |
| E-mail: 'nbalmfor' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~njb |
| Bertram, Allan K. (Chemistry) |
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| Assistant Professor (b. 1971); BSc, University of Prince Edward Island (1993); PhD, University of Waterloo (J.J. Sloan, 1998); NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (M.J. Molina, 1998-2001) |
| Research: Atmospheric chemistry; chemistry and microphysics of atmospheric aerosols; chemical kinetics; heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry; tropospheric chemistry; urban air pollution; global climate change. |
| Teaching: Atmospheric chemistry |
| Room: Chemistry D213 |
| E-mail: 'bertram' followed by domain name '@chem.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/bertram/ |
| Black, T. Andrew (Agricultural Science) |
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| Professor (b. 1942); BSA UBC (1964); MSc Wisconsin (1968); PhD Wisconsin (C. B. Tanner, 1969) |
| Research: Biometeorology, micrometeorology of forests and agricultural crops, evapotranspiration, energy and water balances, CO2 exchange. |
| Teaching: Forest and agricultural climatology, plant environmental physics, biometeorological instrumentation. |
| Room: Soil Science Annex 3 |
| E-mail: 'ablack' followed by domain name '@unixg.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.agsci.ubc.ca/biomet/ |
| Christen, Andreas (Geography) |
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| Assistant Professor (b. 1975); Diploma Univ. Basel (2000); PhD Univ. Basel (2005); Postdoctoral: Berlin University of Technology (2005-06) |
| Research: Experimental micrometeorology; surface-atmosphere interactions; turbulence and dispersion; trace-gas fluxes; urban climatology; mountain meteorology. |
| Teaching: Micrometeorology, Agricultural and Forest Climatology, Global Climate, Micrometeorological field-techniques and instrumentation. |
| Room: Geography 132 |
| E-mail: 'andreas.christen' followed by domain name '@ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~achristn/ |
| Donner, Simon (Geography) |
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| Assistant Professor (b. 1972); B Arts Sci McMaster (1994); MEM Duke University (1997); PhD Wisconsin (2002) Postdoctoral: Princeton University (2003-2007) |
| Research: Climate change; biogeochemical cycling; land use change; coral reef ecology; tropical oceanography. |
| Teaching: Global Climate and Climate Change, Global Biogeochemical Cycling, Science Communication |
| Room: Geography 133 |
| E-mail: 'simon.donner' followed by domain name '@ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.simondonner.com/ |
| Hsieh, William W. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Physics and Astronomy), Chair of Atmospheric Science |
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| Professor (b. 1955); BSc UBC (1976); MSc UBC (1978); PhD UBC (L. A. Mysak, 1981); Postdoctoral: Cambridge University (A. E. Gill, 1981-82), University of New South Wales (V. T. Buchwald, 1983-85) |
| Research: Atmosphere-ocean climate dynamics; neural network models, machine learning, computational intelligence; climate variability and climate prediction. |
| Teaching: Physical oceanography, fluid mechanics, atmospheric science, climate, data methods. |
| Room: EOS-South 162 |
| E-mail: 'whsieh' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/W.Hsieh.html |
| McKendry, Ian G. (Geography) |
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| Professor (b. 1958); BSc (Hons) Canterbury (1979); PhD Canterbury (A. Sturman, 1985); Postdoctoral: UBC (D. G. Steyn, 1985-86) |
| Research: Air pollution meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, synoptic climatology. |
| Teaching: Physical geography, meteorological instrumentation, introductory synoptic meteorology, field methods, geographic data analysis. |
| Room: Geography 251 |
| E-mail: 'ian' followed by domain name '@geog.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~ian/ |
| Novak, Mike D. (Agricultural Science) |
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| Associate Professor (b. 1948); BEng McGill (1970); MSc Western Ontario (1971); PhD UBC (T. A. Black, 1981) |
| Research: Micrometeorology: transport through mulches, energy and soil moisture balances, soil physics, quasi analytical flow theory. |
| Teaching: Soil physics, soil and water conservation. |
| Room: MacMillan 131 |
| E-mail: 'novak' followed by domain name '@unixg.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.agsci.ubc.ca/biomet/ |
| Oke, Tim R. (Geography) |
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| Professor (b. 1941); BSc Bristol (1963); MA McMaster (1964); PhD McMaster (F. G. Hannel, 1967); F.R.S.C. |
| Research: Boundary layer climatology and meteorology: physical basis of microclimates; urban climatology and meteorology; surface energy and water balances; heat islands; field observation; scale and numerical modelling of urban climates, applied climatology. |
| Teaching: Agricultural and forest climates, micrometeorology, urban meteorology, urban ecology. |
| Room: Geography 221 |
| E-mail: 'toke' followed by domain name '@geog.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~toke |
| Pawlowicz, Richard A. (Earth and Ocean Sciences) |
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| Assistant Professor (b 1965); BSc Queen's (1987), PhD MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanographic Engineering (Lynch, 1994) |
| Research: Observational Geophysical Fluid dynamics, Near-surface processes |
| Teaching: Dynamic oceanography, Estuaries, Field methods |
| Room: EOS - South 252 |
| E-mail: 'rich' followed by domain name '@ocgy.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/research.html |
| Steyn, Douw G. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Geography) |
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| Professor (b. 1946); BSc Cape Town (1967); BSc (Hons) Cape Town (1968); MSc Cape Town (1970); PhD UBC (T. R. Oke, 1980); Postdoctoral: UBC (T. R. Oke, 1980-82). |
| Research: Boundary layer meteorology, air pollution meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, numerical modelling and observation of sea breezes and other forced mesoscale flows. |
| Teaching: Air pollution meteorology, micrometeorology, physical geography, boundary layer meteorology. |
| Room: Klinck 464 |
| E-mail: 'dsteyn' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/D.Steyn.html |
| Stull, Roland B. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Geography) |
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| Professor (b. 1950); BS ChE Washington (1971); PhD Washinton (Businger, 1973) |
| Research: Atmospheric boundary layers, turbulence, dispersion and air quality, cloud dynamics, numerical modelling, aviation meteorology. |
| Teaching: Atmospheric boundary layers and turbulence, micrometeorology, atmospheric diffusion and air pollution, cloud dynamics. |
| Room: EOS - South 158 |
| E-mail: 'rstull' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca' |
| WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/R.Stull.html |
