Kimberly Strong
President
Kimberly
Strong has been a CMOS Member since 1996, was a former Chair of the
Prizes and Awards Committee and a former Councillor-at-large, and has
also been involved in CMOS through its Congresses and publications. She
sees CMOS as being vital to the promotion of atmospheric and oceanic
science in Canada, and is pleased to be have the opportunity to
contribute to this effort by serving as CMOS President for 2019-2020.
Kim was
hired as a Physics Professor at the University of Toronto in 1996. She
is currently Chair of the Department of Physics and was Director of the
School of the Environment from 2013-2018. She has a B. Sc. from
Memorial University of Newfoundland and a D. Phil. from the University
of Oxford, and held postdoctoral appointments at the University of
Cambridge and York University. Her expertise is in atmospheric remote
sounding using ground-based, balloon-borne, and satellite instruments
for studies of ozone chemistry, climate, and air quality. Her research
interests include urban, Arctic, and planetary atmospheric science,
long-term measurements of stratospheric and tropospheric trace gases,
satellite validation, and laboratory spectroscopy, and she has more
than 160 refereed papers on these topics.
Kim is the
Co-Principal Investigator and Composition Measurements Theme Leader for
the NSERC-funded Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic project,
which runs the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory
(PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut. She is also the founder of the University
of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory and Co-I on the ACE and Odin
satellite missions, and was Director of the NSERC CREATE Training
Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science. She has a long history of
working with Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Canadian
Space Agency, and is actively involved in the international Network for
the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change and the Total Carbon
Column Observing Network. She has served on numerous committees, most
recently joining the Board of Directors of the SNOLAB Institute. In
September 2019, she was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
September 2019
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