Dr. Robertson is one of Canada's leading environmental scientists and a world authority in Ornithology, Conservation Biology and Behavioural Ecology. Dr. Robertson is recognized for building the Queen's University Biological Station into one of the largest and most successful field research stations in North America. ------------------ ROBERTSON, Raleigh J. –Department of Biology, Queen’s University Dr. Robertson is one of Canada's leading environmental scientists and a world authority in Ornithology, Conservation Biology and Behavioural Ecology. He has over 190 refereed publications, is an ISI highly cited researcher, and has trained 50 postgraduates. Dr. Robertson is recognized for building the Queen's University Biological Station into one of the largest and most successful field research stations in North America. He was the inaugural holder of the prestigious Baillie Family Chair in Conservation Biology at Queen's, and most recently received awards from the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs for lifetime contributions to Canadian biology.

An internationally leading neurosurgeon and a pioneer in the field of deep brain stimulation surgery, his research has focused on understanding the organization and function of human brain circuits controlling movement, mood and cognition. ------------------ LOZANO, Andres M. –Toronto Western Hospital An internationally leading neurosurgeon and a pioneer in the field of deep brain stimulation surgery, his research has focused on understanding the organization and function of human brain circuits controlling movement, mood and cognition. Dr. Lozano has identified new brain targets that are being used to help patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. His discoveries have lead his group to new surgical procedures to improve brain activity and restore function in patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonia and his current work using electrical stimulation of the brain using fully implanted electrodes and pacemakers, is showing promise in patients with other disorders including depression.

Peter Kevan’s extensive pioneering ecological, zoological, and botanical contributions are truly interdisciplinary. His international, Arctic-to-tropical, interests embrace ecosystem function and stress, sustainability, conservation, pollination terrain disruption and soil ecology, habitat fragmentation, pesticides, and urban ecology. ------------------ KEVAN, Peter G. –Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph Kevan’s extensive pioneering ecological, zoological, and botanical contributions are truly interdisciplinary. He elucidated unsuspectedly tight pollination relations between Arctic insects and plants. His studies on floral colours link botany to insect colour vision ecophysiology. For greenhouse and field crops, his cross-cutting research on pollinators for vectoring biocontrol agents exemplifies rigorous, practical lateral thinking. A world leader in pollination conservation, he served on the US-NAS panel "Status of Pollinators in North American", leads our Strategic Network "NSERC-CANPOLIN" and is chair of the International Commission for Bee-Plant Relationships. His international, Arctic-to-tropical, interests embrace ecosystem function and stress, sustainability, conservation, terrain disruption and soil ecology, habitat fragmentation, pesticides, and urban ecology.

Larry Fowke is a leading world authority in cell biology. For more than three decades, Dr. Larry Fowke has established the groundwork in plant-cell biology that other scientists have successfully followed. ------------------ FOWKE, Larry –Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan For more than three decades, Dr. Larry Fowke has established the groundwork in plant-cell biology that other scientists have successfully followed. He has creatively combined cytological, biochemical, and molecular techniques to advance our understanding of the process and nature of plant-cell development and division. This innovative research, often performed painstakingly by microscope, has consistently produced groundbreaking contributions to the discipline of cell biology. It has also led to exciting applications, in particular the development of methods for generating large quantities of conifer embryos for forestry. Larry Fowke is a leading world authority in cell biology.

In 1988, Dr. Gregory Cairncross discovered that oligodendrogliomas, a type of brain cancer, are sensitive to chemotherapy. In 1998, he discovered a molecular marker of chemosensitivity and long survival in this cancer. Testing for loss of chromosomes Ip and 19q is used worldwide to assist in the diagnosis and care of patients with oligodendrogliomas. ------------------ CAIRNCROSS, J. Gregory –Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary In 1988, Dr. Gregory Cairncross discovered that oligodendrogliomas, a type of brain cancer, are sensitive to chemotherapy. In 1998, he discovered a molecular marker of chemosensitivity and long survival in this cancer. Testing for loss of chromosomes Ip and 19q is used worldwide to assist in the diagnosis and care of patients with oligodendrogliomas. This finding provided a new framework for basic research and clinical trials in his field. In 2008, he reported that life is prolonged by giving chemotherapy for this disease.

Throughout David Dodge's career which mainly took place in the Canadian Public Service, he kept a strong relationship with the academic and scientific milieu. He can rightly so be commended for regularly making public the case for the social value of research, advanced knowledge and graduate studies. ------------------ DODGE, David A. -Queen's University David A. Dodge, who received his PhD. in Economics from Princeton University, started his career as Assistant Professor of Economics at Queens' University. Throughout his career which mainly took place in the Canadian Public Service, he kept a strong relationship with the academic and scientific milieu. He can rightly so be commended for regularly making public the case for the social value of research, advanced knowledge and graduate studies. He has filled with great wisdom a very large spectrum of high level positions within the federal public service. His major accomplishments include, for example, important research management activities within the Anti-Inflation Board which eventually led to public policies with respect to salary and prize controls in a difficult economic conjuncture; Assistant Deputy and Deputy Minister of Finance responsibilities in a crucial period that saw the implementation of major tax reforms and of policies as well as annual budgets aiming at deficit and debt controls; and finally a strong, expert and innovative leadership at the head of a very complex organization, the Bank of Canada.

Robert Orr is one of Canada's leading experimental particle physicists, having made crucial contributions to discoveries in elementary particles. Through the development and exploitation of new experimental techniques, he has made seminal contributions to the study of the electroweak interaction, proton structure and heavy quark physics. ------------------ ORR, Robert Steell –Department of Physics, University of Toronto Robert Orr is one of Canada's leading experimental particle physicists, having made crucial contributions to discoveries in elementary particles. Through the development and exploitation of new experimental techniques, he has made seminal contributions to the study of the electroweak interaction, proton structure and heavy quark physics. Through his leadership, a team of 100 Canadian scientists is playing a significant role in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, a project designed to uncover the fundamental mechanism for mass and search for phenomena that would allow us to understand the properties of the basic forces.

Internationally renowned computer scientist Alan Mackworth is Canada's leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence. His pioneering development of constraint satisfaction algorithms for applications such as vision, scheduling, and design have opened up a new discipline known as constraint programming. ------------------ MACKWORTH, Alan K. –Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Internationally renowned computer scientist Alan Mackworth is Canada's leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence. His work in AI and robotics concentrates on constraint-based knowledge representations. His pioneering development of constraint satisfaction algorithms for applications such as vision, scheduling, and design have opened up a new discipline known as constraint programming. For introducing the first soccer-playing robots, Mackworth is globally recognized as the founding father of the famous robot soccer challenge RoboCup, stimulating an enormous range of research in perceptually-guided robotics. His current work on constraint nets and constraint-based agent architectures strongly influences computational intelligence, control theory, and hybrid systems.

Robert Reisz is internationally renowned for his research on the initial stages of terrestrial vertebrate evolution and the organisms that gave rise to the living reptiles, birds, mammals, and their extinct relatives, as well as to a host of extinct groups, including dinosaurs, and other terrestrial, aquatic, and flying reptiles. ------------------ REISZ, Robert-Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga Robert Reisz is an internationally renowned for his extensive research on the initial stages of terrestrial vertebrate evolution and the organisms that eventually gave rise to mammals, reptiles, and birds. His discoveries encompass every major group of tetrapods, and have transformed our understanding of the origins and early evolution of numerous groups of vertebrates, including turtles and dinosaurs. His work has integrated the study of specimens from museum collections with the discovery of new fossils through fieldwork in North America, Europe, and Africa. He has also introduced innovative paleontological techniques for analyses of anatomy, biogeography, and developmental and evolutionary patterns.

Dr. McElroy is one of Canada's foremost atmospheric scientists. He is a co-inventor of the Brewer ozone spectrophotometer, now used for ozone measurements world-wide, and the UV index, which is used to inform the public of the safety of remaining outside in sunlight. ------------------ McELROY, Charles Thomas –Environment Canada Dr. McElroy is one of Canada's foremost atmospheric scientists. He is a co-inventor of the Brewer ozone spectrophotometer, now used for ozone measurements world-wide, and the UV index, which is used to inform the public of the safety of remaining outside in sunlight. He has developed techniques for measuring ozone and other gases from the ground, from aircraft and from space. He has developed instruments used by astronauts on the space shuttle and the MAESTRO instrument on Canada's SCISAT satellite. He has sat on numerous national and international committees, and received numerous awards.

Rod Ewing is universally recognized as the world's leading scientist on the geochemistry of uranium and the role of uranium in all aspects of nuclear power, from nuclear-reactor processes to safe storage of radiogenic waste. ------------------ EWING, Rodney C. –Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan Rod Ewing is universally recognized as the world's leading scientist on the geochemistry of uranium and the role of uranium in all aspects of nuclear power, from nuclear-reactor processes to safe storage of radiogenic waste. With his intellectual capabilities and scientific expertise, he has made major and fundamental scientific advances in Earth and Environmental Sciences. He has tirelessly pursued geological solutions to the problem of nuclear-waste disposal, almost single-handedly impressing the Materials Science community and Government Agencies with the importance of this approach. This is the most creative and sustained scientific initiative in this area since its inception.