James Drummond
Fellow
Current Employer
Dalhousie University
Election Year
2005
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Atmospheric Sciences
Department
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences
Keywords
Space measurements, atmospheric composition, atmospheric studies, pollution measurements, atmospheric ozone
LONG CITATION
James Drummond is one of Canada's leading atmospheric physicist employing space-based techniques to monitor crucial "fingerprints" of global change in both troposphere and stratosphere. He is the designer of the Measurements of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument currently orbiting on NASA's Earth Observing System, a remarkable achievement for a university-based scientist. He is the architect of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka in the Canadian High Arctic, a facility that will provide a national capability in high latitude climate and global change monitoring. His work places Canada at the forefront of experimental atmospheric physics.
SHORT CITATION
James Drummond is one of Canada's leading experimental atmospheric physicist employing space-based techniques to monitor crucial "fingerprints" of global change in both troposphere and stratosphere. His design and construction of instrumentation to monitor global change from space are among the most innovative and widely used in modern atmospheric physics, putting Canada at the forefront of this field.
James Drummond is one of Canada's leading atmospheric physicist employing space-based techniques to monitor crucial "fingerprints" of global change in both troposphere and stratosphere. He is the designer of the Measurements of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument currently orbiting on NASA's Earth Observing System, a remarkable achievement for a university-based scientist. He is the architect of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka in the Canadian High Arctic, a facility that will provide a national capability in high latitude climate and global change monitoring. His work places Canada at the forefront of experimental atmospheric physics.
SHORT CITATION
James Drummond is one of Canada's leading experimental atmospheric physicist employing space-based techniques to monitor crucial "fingerprints" of global change in both troposphere and stratosphere. His design and construction of instrumentation to monitor global change from space are among the most innovative and widely used in modern atmospheric physics, putting Canada at the forefront of this field.