Scientific Investigators participating in the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science

Training Program Director

Kimberly Strong (U of Toronto) has expertise in remote sounding of atmospheric composition from ground-based, balloon-borne, and satellite instruments, serving as PI of the MANTRA balloon mission, PI of the U of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory, which has been an NDACC station since 2004, and Co-I on the Odin/OSIRIS and ACE satellite missions. She has been active in research at Eureka since 1999, and is Leader of the CANDAC/PEARL Arctic Middle Atmosphere Chemistry theme, with responsibility for three instruments at PEARL.

  

Co-Investigators

James R. Drummond (FRSC, Tier I CRC, Dalhousie U) is the PI for CANDAC and PEARL. He brings 30 years of experience in atmospheric measurements to this Program. He has also successfully led the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) space experiment from conception to completion. He is a Co-I on the ACE mission, is leading an “Advanced Study” for a successor to the MOPITT experiment, and is working on an atmospheric mission to Mars.
Thomas J. Duck (Dalhousie U) is Leader of the CANDAC/PEARL Arctic Radiative Environment theme. He has 15 years experience building and operating lidars for atmospheric research, including the RMR lidar at Eureka. Combined radar-lidar measurements at Eureka have been used to investigate particle sizes, sources, and impact on radiative transfer. He also runs a lidar in Halifax, for studies of air quality and pollution transport, and is a Co-I with the Phoenix Mars Scout program, which successfully landed and operated a lidar on Mars in 2008.
Alan Manson (U of Saskatchewan) is a senior Distinguished Research Professor who uses networks of radars, in conjunction/collaboration with satellite and modelling systems. His research areas include coupling process between the middle and lower atmosphere, global tides of the middle atmosphere, gravity waves, and the use of satellite and model data to understand coupling processes. He is involved with national and international programs, and leads a project within CAWSES-SCOSTEP: Atmospheric Wave Interaction with the Winter Polar Vortices.
Norm O’Neill (U de Sherbrooke) is a senior research specialist in the optical remote sensing of aerosols from ground based and satellite sensors. He was a key figure in the development of the Canada-wide AEROCAN network of sunphotometers and sky radiometers. He also developed an aerosol retrieval algorithm that is currently implemented on the global, NASA-led, AERONET network.
Marianna Shepherd (York U) is a researcher, using satellite and ground-based data to derive: a) atmospheric temperature from light scattering in the atmosphere; b) water content from observations of polar mesospheric clouds, c) dynamical coupling of planetary-scale perturbations from GPS observations. She has worked on the WINDII and OSIRIS satellite projects, and has participated and led a number of (inter)national projects. She is the mentor for the Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager.
Robert J. Sica (U of Western Ontario) has interests in atmospheric dynamics and the effects of dynamics on constituent chemistry, such as ozone and water vapor, in particular using lidar techniques.
 
Kaley A. Walker (U of Toronto) is Deputy Mission Scientist for the ACE satellite. She has eight years of experience in atmospheric remote sensing using Fourier transform spectroscopy and in development of instrumentation for ground-based, balloon-borne and satellite-based measurements. She is developing a new millimeter wave radiometer that will enhance the instrument suite at PEARL by providing year-round constituent profiles for ozone and related species. Over the past six years, she has led field trips to Eureka for ACE validation studies at polar sunrise and these studies will continue through the lifetime of the ACE mission. She is also Leader of the CANDAC outreach program.
James Whiteway (York U) is an atmospheric physicist specializing in experimental measurements of dynamics, clouds, and composition. His research was previously based on lidar observations at the Eureka and he has led international collaborations in aircraft campaigns about the issues of ozone and climate change.
William Ward (U of New Brunswick) is Leader of the CANDAC/PEARL Waves and Coupling Processes theme and mentor responsible for the PEARL All Sky Imager and Wind Interferometer. He conducts research on instrumentation, data processing, model development and process analyses relevant to the middle atmosphere. He is Leader of the CAWSES Global Tidal Campaign Working Group, an international effort devoted to resolving the global structure of atmospheric tides.

Collaborators

Stephen Argall (Fanshawe College) develops and uses lidar and radar techniques for atmospheric monitoring.
Doug Degenstein (U of Sakatchewan) is PI of OSIRIS and the CSA-funded STEP mission concept study. Professor Degenstein works on Arctic middle atmosphere chemistry and upper tropospheric / lower stratospheric dynamics. In particular his research work is focused on remote sensing of sulphate aerosols including tracking these particles from their low and mid-latitude sources to their Arctic sinks.
Pierre Fogal (Environment Canada) is the Facility Manager for PEARL, responsible for on-site personnel and instrument operations. He has been active in measuring atmospheric composition and radiance using a variety of spectrometers from the ground, balloons, and aircraft, spanning the globe from Eureka to the South Pole.
Wayne Hocking (U of Western Ontario) operates two large networks of radars for studies of the upper and lower atmosphere. Radars are situated everywhere between Antarctica and Eureka, including polar, mid-latitude and tropical sites.  Studies include tropospheric weather, stratospheric-troposphere exchange, mesospheric dynamics, atmospheric waves, and meteors. Eureka/0PAL/SAFIRE are key ingredients of these networks, playing pivotal roles in his studies of global dynamics, due to the near-polar location of the site. Links can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/oqnet/ and http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~whocking/axonmet/.  
David Hudak (Environment Canada) is a senior researcher at EC in the King City (Ontario) radar group. He is actively working on the validation of CloudSat and CALIPSO using PEARL data.
Thomas McElroy (York University, formerly at Environment Canada) holds the CSA/ABB/NSERC/York U Industrial Research Chair in Atmospheric Remote Sounding at YorkU and is very active nationally and internationally in science issues related to ozone. He has led satellite instrument projects (MAESTRO on ACE) and is active in ozone measurements and trend studies.
Gordon Shepherd (York U) has applied a wide range of instruments to ground-based and satellite (WINDII) upper atmospheric observations of winds, temperatures and emission rates.
Kevin Strawbridge (Environment Canada) is a research scientist working with stratospheric ozone and temperature at PEARL using lidar techniques.
Taneil Uttal (NOAA) is the Leader of the Polar Processes Research group in the National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration (NOAA) Earth Sciences Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. She has worked with radar detection of clouds for 30 years, with a specialty in Arctic clouds since 1997. She is leading the NOAA effort to establish permanent Arctic Atmospheric Observatories as a part of the SEARCH and IASOA Programs.
Ed Eloranta (U of Wisconsin) is a senior scientist who operates the High Spectral Resolution Lidar at Eureka as part of the SEARCH program.
Von Walden (U of Idaho) has expertise in polar meteorology and polar climates, with a focus on polar clouds. He operated the Polar-AERI instrument at Eureka for three years as part of the SEARCH program.

Past CREATE Co-Investigators and Collaborators

 

Jim Sloan (U of Waterloo) is Leader of the CANDAC/PEARL Arctic Troposphere Transport and Air Quality theme and mentor for the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer at Eureka. He is the Director of the Waterloo Centre for Atmospheric Sciences and has over 30 years experience in atmospheric research, with a focus on the sources, transport, chemistry and physics of atmospheric clouds and aerosols, especially in the Arctic. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Teams for both the ILAS-II (Japan) and ACE missions, responsible for measuring the chemical composition, size distribution and phases of clouds and aerosols.  Note: No longer accepting new CREATE students.
Bruce McArthur (Environment Canada) is the Chief of EC's Experimental Studies Division, which leads the ozonesonde and UV/ozone science and monitoring in Canada. He is responsible for the development of a spectral irradiance monitoring network in response to Canada's implementation of the Kyoto protocol and is the principle scientist for the Bratt's Lake Observatory of the World Climate Research Programme Baseline Surface Radiation Network.