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William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc) [1] (born 1943), is university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Science [2], past principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Network [3], and the scientific director of Canada's largest supercomputer centre, SciNet [4]. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the American Geophysical Union, of the American Meteorological Society, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters..
His research interests include: atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence, geophysical fluid dynamics, physics of the planetary interior, and planetary climate.
He is notable for his seminal contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of the deep Earth, both concerning the nature of the mantle convection process and the circulation of the visco-elastic interior caused by the loading of the surface by continental scale ice sheet loads. His gravitationally self-consistent global theory of Ice-Earth-Ocean interactions has become widely employed internationally in the explanation of the changes of sea level that accompany both the growth and decay of grounded ice on the continents, both during the Late Quaternary era of Earth history and under modern global warming conditions. His models of the space-time variations of continental ice cover since the last maximum of glaciation are employed universally to provide the boundary conditions needed to enable modern coupled climate models to be employed to reconstruct past climate conditions. A most notable contribution to work of this kind has been his theory of the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger millennial timescale oscillation of glacial climate. He has been the primary contributor to the global reconstructions ICE-3G, ICE-4G, ICE-5G (VM2), and the most recent ICE-6G (VM5)model. These models are important for the quantification of post-glacial rebound and late Pleistocene to Holocene variations in sea level.




Education


1967 B.Sc., University of British Columbia
1969 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Toronto
1971 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Toronto




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 Sabbatical 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
2006 Visiting professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Bjerknes center for Marine Research, University of Bergen, Norway
2009 Professeur Invite Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 2009




Notable publications


Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017
Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018
The Antarctica component of postglacial rebound model ICE-6G_C (VM5a) based on GPS positioning, exposure age dating of ice thicknesses, and relative sea level histories
Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE-6G_C (VM5a) model
Comment on "An Assessment of the ICE-6G_C (VM5a) Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Model" by Purcell et al.
Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from an extended Barbados sea level record
The modern and glacial overturning circulation in the Atlantic Ocean in PMIP coupled model simulations
Palaeoclimate
High tide of the warm Pliocene: Implications of global sea level for Antarctic deglaciation
A data-calibrated distribution of deglacial chronologies for the North American ice complex from glaciological modeling
The angular velocities of the plates and the velocity of Earth's centre from space geodesy




Honours and awards


Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1977-1979
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial fellowship, 1978-1980
Kirk Bryan Award Geological Society of America
Killam Senior Research Fellowship Canada Council for the Arts. 1980-1982
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1986-
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1986-
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1986-1988
Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1988-
Senior fellow of Massey College University of Toronto, 1989-
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 1991-
Patterson Medal of the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada, 1992
Appointment to the rank of university professor, highest rank at the University of Toronto, 1993-
Distinguished Lecturer of the Canadian Geophysical Union, 1999–2000
Science Watch listing as the fifth most highly cited earth scientists in the world, all disciplines included, 2001
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
Vetlesen Prize, the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation of New York, 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
CAP Gold medal for Achievement in Physics Canadian Association of Physicists, 2009
Charles A. Whitten Medal American Geophysical Union, 2010
The Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science - Earth Systems Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 2010
The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2011
Killam Prize in Natural Science Canada Council for the Arts, 2012
W. A. Johnston Award from the Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA), 2018
Gold Medal and Fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), 2019




See also


List of University of Waterloo people
List of geophysicists




References






External links


Home page of Dr. Peltier
University Professor page for Dr. Peltier
Science Watch #5 most cited in geosciences, 1991-2001
March 27, 2007 Toronto Star article "Reassessing the gravity of the situation" [5]

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