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Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, o.p.
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: Université Laval
Deceased Date: 2000-01-15
Dr. Robie Macdonald
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Institute of Ocean Sciences
Keywords: Contaminants, arctic, organic carbon, climate, fresh water
Deceased Date: 2022-02-13
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Robie Macdonald is a world-class scientist, internationally recognized for his work on contaminant pathways in environmental systems. His research includes the role of the ocean in arctic contaminant transport, arctic hydrological and ice interactions and organic carbon cycling. His time-series data for the Beaufort Sea reveals that recent surface freshening of the Canada Basin results largely from diverted runoff pathways. He was awarded the CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society) President’s Prize (2000) for leading the synthesis of Canadian arctic contaminant studies and was co-recipient of the Head of the Public Service Award for Excellence in Policy (2002).
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Robie Macdonald is a world-class scientist, internationally recognized for his work on contaminant pathways in environmental systems. His research includes the role of the ocean in arctic contaminant transport, arctic ice interactions and organic carbon cycling. His data for the Beaufort Sea reveals that recent surface freshening of the Canada Basin results largely from diverted runoff pathways.
Dr. George MacDonald
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Keywords: Native rights (globally), native oral history, Northwest Coast native arts, world prehistory, historical photography (aboriginal people)
Deceased Date: 2020-01-22
Through his extensive research and scholarly publication, and through his creative work as a museologist, George F. MacDonald, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, has made a significant contribution to knowledge in the fields of archaeology and anthropology. In particular, his work has enlarged knowledge and enhanced understanding of the cultures, history, and heritage of aboriginal peoples on both the East and Northwest coasts of Canada. A major part of his work has focused on Haida Art. His scholarly work includes many publications associated with the North Coast Prehistory Project.
Roderick Macdonald
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Secured transaction, institutional design, legal pluralism
Deceased Date: 2014-06-13
Prof. Rod Macdonald has made outstanding contributions to Canadian legal scholarship, in both its official languages and both its legal vernaculars. His work embraces both socio-legal research and doctrinal analysis, and involves both applied and theoretical projects, in the areas of both public and private law. His recent highly original work on 'critical legal pluralism' has grown out of, and in turn helped to shape, a series of studies on 'access to justice' which have evoked considerable interest not only within the academic community, but in professional and public policy circles as well. His unusual versatility and virtuosity as a scholar is complemented by a deep commitment to collegial collaboration.
James MacGregor
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Structural engineering, reinforced concrete, structural stability
Deceased Date: 2015-01-28
Dr. MacGregor taught at the University of Alberta from 1960 to 1993. During this period he has gained an international reputation for his research into structural engineering and he has been prominent in professional and university affairs. Dr. MacGregor has published extensively, particularly with respect to the behaviour of concrete structures and his research has had substantial impact on professional practice throughout the world, particularly in the design of reinforced concrete columns and the design of prestressed concrete for shear. Recent research has led to a better understanding of the behaviour of concrete containments for nuclear power plants. The engineering profession in both Canada and abroad has relied extensively on Dr. MacGregor's skills in transforming research results into design codes in order to bridge the gap between research and practice.
Dr. J. Ross Mackay
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Permafrost, ice wedges, pingos, massive ice, ice segregation
John Ross Mackay is an outstanding Canadian geographer who has done extensive work in the Arctic. The four main fields of geography which have engaged his interest are the Canadian Arctic, cartographic methods, physiography, and southeast Asia. During the war he was stationed at Darwin, Australia, where he was Senior Intelligence Officer. Dr. Mackay's ability in his chosen field is indicated by the fact that he is Past President of the Canadian Assocaition of Geographers and Past Vice-President of Pacific Coast Geographers, and is a Fellow of these and several other societies. He is currently Professor and Acting Chairman of the Division of Geography at the University of British Columbia.
In the past 40 years following my election, I have devoted all of my time to permafrost and no longer work in cartographs and southeast Asia.