Lawrence A. Mysak#
Membership Number: | 2016 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
Homepage(s): | http://www.esmg.mcgill.ca |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Canada Steamship Lines Emeritus Professor
- 2007-2011 President, International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans, one of eight associations of IUGG
- 1989 - 2010 Canada Steamship Lines Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1986 - 1996 NSERC-AES Industrial Chair in Climate Research, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1967 - 1986 Assist.-Assoc.-Full Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 1967 PhD in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Ocean and climate dynamics
- Modelling of the earth climate system, including paleoclimates:
- Holocene
- Ice ages
- Warm periods of the Cretaceous and Paleocene epochs
Honours and Awards
- 2010 McGill University Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement
- Fellow of AGU, AMS, CMOS and IUGG,
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Member of the Order of Canada
- Foreign Member Academia Europaea
- Fellow of AGU and AMS
- Tully Medal for Oceanography (CMOS) and the Patterson Medal for Meteorology (Can. Met. Service)
- Prix du Quebec
- Alfred Wegener Medal for Climate Sciences (EGU), the Distinguished Alumni Award (Univ. of Alberta)