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ATSC Faculty Members

Core Faculty
Susan Allen	Phil Austin	Neil Balmforth	Allan Bertram
Andrew Black	Andreas Christen	William Hsieh	Ian McKendry
Mike Novak	Tim Oke	Lionel Pandolfo	Rich Pawlowicz
Andy Ridgwell	Douw Steyn	Roland Stull
Additional Faculty
Michael Brauer (Associate Faculty)	Kendall Bushe (Associate Faculty)	Terry Clark (Adjunct Faculty)	Sheldon Green (Associate Faculty)
Felix Herrmann (Associate Faculty)	Owen Hertzman (Lecturer)	Mark Holzer (Adjunct Faculty)	Grant Ingram (Associate Faculty)
Bernard Laval (Associate Faculty)	Gregory Lawrence (Associate Faculty)	Dave McClung (Associate Faculty)	Norm McFarlane (Adjunct Faculty)
Knut von Salzen (Adjunct Faculty)

Allen, Susan E. (Earth and Ocean Sciences)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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/

Hsieh, William W. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Physics and Astronomy), Chair of Atmospheric Science
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)
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)
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)
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

Pandolfo, Lionel (Earth and Ocean Sciences)
Assistant Professor (b. 1959); BSc Laval (1982); MSc Florida (1984); MPhil Yale (1986); PhD Yale (B. Saltzman and A. Sutera, 1992)
Research: Mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric general circulation modelling, climate diagnostics.
Teaching: Atmospheric dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics.
Room: EOS - South 159
E-mail: 'lpandolfo' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca'
WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/L.Pandolfo.html

Pawlowicz, Richard A. (Earth and Ocean Sciences)
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

Ridgwell, Andy (Earth and Ocean Sciences)
Assistant Professor (b. 1969); B.A. University of Cambridge, UK (1990); M.Sc. University of Nottingham, UK (1997); Ph.D. University of East Anglia, UK (2001)
Research: Global carbon cycle modelling and elucidating past and future controls on atmospheric carbon dioxide, paleo climate change, systems analysis of the coupled biosphere-geosphere.
Teaching: Numerical techniques
Room: EOS - East 147
E-mail: 'aridgwell' followed by domain name '@eos.ubc.ca'
WWW: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/A.Ridgwell.html

Steyn, Douw G. (Earth and Ocean Sciences; Geography)
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)
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

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