Sapna Sharma has transformed the understanding and study of how lakes worldwide respond to climate change, including rapid ice loss, warming water temperatures, degrading water quality, and changing fish distributions. She reinvigorated the field of winter limnology using big data and cutting-edge statistical analysis. She is a remarkable science communicator, generating millions of media impressions by clearly conveying complex research and as founder of SEEDS, an outreach program for refugees.

Sapna Sharma a transformé la compréhension et l’étude des réactions des lacs du monde entier aux changements climatiques, notamment la perte rapide de glace, le réchauffement des températures de l’eau, la dégradation de la qualité de l’eau et la modification de la répartition des poissons. Elle a donné un nouveau souffle au domaine de la limnologie hivernale en utilisant les mégadonnées et des analyses statistiques de pointe. Elle est une remarquable communicatrice scientifique, générant des millions d’impressions dans les médias en expliquant clairement des recherches complexes, de même qu’en tant que fondatrice de SEEDS, un programme de sensibilisation pour les réfugiés.

SHARP, Martin – Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta Martin Sharp is a prestigious international voice documenting polar environmental change in a warming world. Martin’s research is remarkably prescient and innovative focusing on the linkages between glaciers, the atmosphere and oceans. His benchmark contributions to our understanding of high-latitude ice masses include quantifying their meltwater contribution to global sea level rise, an issue with enormous societal implications. Martin’s acumen is strategically important to Canada, a northern nation facing urgent environmental, geopolitical and socio-economic adjustments.

SHARP, Martin – Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta Martin Sharp est la voix prestigieuse qui se fait entendre sur la scène internationale pour documenter les changements de l’environnement polaire résultant du réchauffement planétaire. Les recherches de Martin sont remarquablement prémonitoires et novatrices, se concentrant sur les liens entre les glaciers, l’atmosphère et les océans. Ses repères géodésiques contribuent à notre connaissance des masses de glace de haute latitude et comprennent notamment la quantification des eaux de fonte et leur impact sur l’élévation du niveau de la mer, problème ayant d’énormes implications sociétales. La compétence de Martin revêt une importance stratégique pour le Canada, pays nordique confronté à l’urgence des ajustements environnementaux, géopolitiques et socioéconomiques.

LONG A leading scholar of the medieval Islamic Middle East and North Africa, Professor Maya Shatzmiller has revolutionized our understanding of the social, economic, and legal foundations of Islamic societies. Internationally recognized as overturning received notions of monolithic rigidities, Shatzmiller has broken significant new ground in the history of work, women's involvement in economic affairs, and in Islamic legal and political practice. In numerous books and articles in English, French and Arabic, in scholarly presentations, and in teaching, Shatzmiller has conveyed the complexity of Islamic inheritances and their role in shaping modern multicultural societies. SHORT A leading scholar of the medieval Islamic Middle East and North Africa, Maya Shatzmiller has revolutionized our understanding of the social, economic, and legal foundations of Islamic societies. She has broken significant new ground in the history of work, women's involvement in economic affairs, and in Islamic legal and political practice.

Dr. Shaw is one of the most productive scholars in the field of Victorian Studies, as his list of publications, especially in the last ten years, demonstrates. He is widely cited in admiring terms for his subtle and broadly based examinations of Victorian poetry and critical theory, and his acclaim is certain to grow with the publication of his study of poetic truth in the Victorian age, a work that only he could have written. He is thoroughly imbued in the literature and ideas of the age, with special competence in all aspects of stylistic and rhetorical practice and theory.

William Shea established his international reputation by his book on "Galileo's Intellectual Revolution", translated into several languages and followed by a series of essays on various aspects of Galileo's activities. He is universally recognized as one of the leading authorities on the subject. Numerous studies on Descartes and his contemporaries as well as on Kant and Hegel, on the history of nuclear physics and on modern science show the wide range of his work. He is one of the few historians of science who is equally at home in the philosophy of science. His election as Secretary-General of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and President of the International Academy of the History of Science bears witness to the esteem in which he is held by scholars everywhere.

Alla Sheffer is a world leader in computer graphics and geometry processing. Dr. Sheffer develops innovative methods for modeling shapes that facilitate computational fabrication, garment design, computer animation, and mechanical engineering. Her methods, some of which had been incorporated into major modelling software packages, enable computer animators, designers, and artists to easily generate and manipulate computer models of complex real-world and imaginary shapes.

Alla Sheffer est une cheffe de file mondiale dans le domaine de l’infographie et du traitement de la géométrie. La Prof. Sheffer développe des méthodes innovantes pour la modélisation des formes, en vue de faciliter la fabrication par ordinateur, la conception de vêtements, l’animation par ordinateur et l’ingénierie mécanique. Ses méthodes, intégrées pour certaines d’entre elles dans les principaux logiciels de modélisation, permettent aux animateurs informatiques, aux designers et aux artistes de générer et de manipuler facilement des modèles informatiques de formes complexes réelles et imaginaires.

Long Citation Theodore Shepherd is the leading Canadian atmospheric dynamicist of his generation. His contributions, based upon sophisticated analyses of the interactions between atmospheric waves and the stratospheric circulation, have led to seminal insights. Through his creative scientific leadership of the Canadian Middle Atmospheric Model (CMAM) collaboration, and contributions to the international stratosphere-related SPARC programme and the most recent UNEP/WMO Ozone Assessments, he has brought great credit to the Canadian community. His recent service as Chief Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, the leading journal in the field internationally, is further confirmation of his high stature. Short Citation Theodore Shepherd is the leading Canadian atmospheric dynamicist of his generation. His contributions, based upon sophisticated analyses of the interactions between atmospheric waves and the stratospheric circulation, have led to seminal insights. Through his creative scientific leadership he has brought great credit to the Canadian community. His recent service as Chief Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences is further confirmation of his high stature.

Since 1953, Professor Gordon Shepherd has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the physics of the magnetosphere and of the aurora. He has been a recognized leader in Canadian magnetospheric research for some years. He has developed and used ingenious optical instruments for ground, rocket and satellite observations of magnetospheric phenomena in Canada, Europe and elsewhere, as an individual, and as a member of a number of international research groups. He is continually invited to address international symposia on magnetospheric physics. He has published nearly 90 papers and supervised the research of 17 M.Sc., and 13 Ph.D students at the University of Saskatchewan and York University. In a very strong competition, he was recently designated by NASA as Principal Investigator of the Wide Angle Imaging Michelson Interferometer experiment to be built in Canada and flown on a forthcoming flight of SPACELAB/SHUTTLE.

Kate Sherren is a Professor of Environmental Social Science at Dalhousie University focusing on the human dimensions of natural resource management and landscape change. Dr. Sherren’s innovative approach leverages theory and visual methods to tackle a range of critical sustainability challenges such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, coastal adaptation and urban form. A compelling communicator committed to mobilizing research, she enriches important societal conversations with social science insights.

Kate Sherren est professeure de sciences sociales de l’environnement à la Dalhousie University et étudie les dimensions humaines de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’évolution des paysages. Son approche innovante s’appuie sur la théorie et les méthodes visuelles pour relever une série de défis cruciaux en matière de durabilité, tels que l’agriculture durable, les énergies renouvelables, l’adaptation des zones côtières et la forme urbaine. Communicatrice convaincante et engagée dans la mobilisation de la recherche, elle enrichit les débats sociétaux importants avec des connaissances en sciences sociales.

Dr Sherwood is 'the' world authority on the evolution of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neuropeptide family. She sequenced salmon GnRH in 1903 and has since studied the hormone as expressed in a variety of other vertebrates. which has enabled her to construct an evolutionary tree showing the changes that the molecule has undergone over the last 500 million years. Her work has led to the development of synthetic GnRH analogs one of which is being manufactured and exported from Canada for use in a number of countries, particularly in SE Asia, to promote ovulation in cultured fishes.

Long Citation (for publication and press release) Sara Shettleworth is recognized internationally as a world-leading figure in the comparative study of animal cognition, learning, and memory. She was a pioneer in bridging the fields of experimental animal psychology with behavioral ecology or ethology. Professor Shettleworth's research on constraints in learning heralded a major paradigm shift by introducing evolutionary consideration to studies on learning. Her subsequent research on basic mechanisms in conditioning, animal foraging and spatial learning and memory, furthered our understanding of these functions and of their evolutionary significance. In her influential book, Cognition, Evolution and Behavior, she integrates the literature with great skill, and provides deep insights into the nature, and evolution, of the animal and human mind. Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony) Sara Shettleworth is recognized internationally as a leading authority in the comparative study of animal cognition, learning, and memory. She was a pioneer in bridging the fields of experimental animal psychology with behavioral ecology or ethology. Her research on constraints in learning heralded a major paradigm shift by introducing evolutionary consideration to studies on learning.