Dr. Peter Dillon
Fellow
Current Employer
Trent University
Election Year
1994
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Ocean Sciences
Department
Environmental and Resource Studies/Chemistry
Keywords
Biogeochemistry, environment, aquatic, carbon, acidification
Dr. Dillon is one of the world's most active researchers in the field of aquatic biogeochemistry. His work was instrumental in demonstrating the key role of water renewal in the relationship between inputs of pollutants to lakes and the resulting concentrations. This concept is now incorporated in all major pollutant budgets for lakes.
Dillon's studies of the chemistry of lakes in eastern Ontario were instrumental in the establishment of phosphorus control in lake management. He was the first to discover that polluted precipitation was severely acidifying lakes in areas of Ontario remote from local point sources.
Dillon's studies of the chemistry of lakes in eastern Ontario were instrumental in the establishment of phosphorus control in lake management. He was the first to discover that polluted precipitation was severely acidifying lakes in areas of Ontario remote from local point sources.