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Professor
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
60 St. George St
Toronto
ON
M5S 1A7
Canada
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Background
Shepherd currently co-chairs the Scientific Steering Group of the World Climate Research Programme’s SPARC Project, in which he has been active for over 15 years. He has also played key roles in the WMO/UNEP Ozone Assessments of 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010— in 2006 as a member of the Assessment’s Steering Committee — as well as the IPCC/TEAP Special Report on Ozone and Climate (2005). For five years (2001 through 2005) he was the Chief Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, the leading journal in fundamental atmospheric science. He has won the top awards of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (President’s Prize, 1995) and the Meteorological Service of Canada (Patterson Medal, 2005), and is a Fellow of the CMOS, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Society of Canada.