ANDREW
WEAVER (2011)
Dr.
Andrew J. Weaver (FRSC) is an international leader in ocean and climate
modelling and analysis and, in particular, is a foremost expert on the
role of the ocean in climate variability and change. Dr. Weaver received
his Ph.D. from the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of
British Columbia in 1987. He then held postdoctoral positions at the
School of Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in Australia
and at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at
the University of Washington. Dr. Weaver was Assistant Professor in the
Department or Meteorology at McGill University and began his career at the
University of Victoria in 1992 as Assistant Professor in the newly
established School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. He was appointed Associate
Professor in 1994 and a Full Professor in 1997.
Dr.
Weaver's research at the University of Victoria involves multiple aspects
of ocean, climate, and paleoclimate modeling and analysis and he built a
large laboratory of staff, students and research associates. He was
instrumental in bringing the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis to the university. His research group developed an Earth System
Climate Model referred to internationally as the University of Victoria
climate model.
A
novel aspect of Dr. Weaver's approach to research is his ability to
transcend traditional disciplinary barriers. A unifying theme in his work
is enhancing our scientific understanding of the natural environment. He
recently became interested in how climate and abrupt climate change has
affected human dispersal over the last 135,000 years, and together with
his colleagues he has published a number of manuscripts in this emerging
field. Finally, Dr. Weaver is an outstanding spokesperson on issues
concerning climate science and he has dedicated enormous energy conveying
sound science to the public at large. Dr. Weaver has served on many
national and international committees and his scientific contributions
have been recognized internationally through his election to learned
societies and his winning of prestigious scientific awards as well as the
Order of British Columbia.
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