 Lawrence A. Mysak holds the endowed Canada Steamship Lines Chair in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University, Montreal, and is the past founding director (1990-96) of the McGill Centre for Climate and Global Change Research. Prior to his appointment at McGill in 1986, Dr. Mysak was Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1967-86). He holds degrees from the Univ. of Alberta (BSc), Adelaide Univ. (MSc), and Harvard Univ. (PhD). Dr. Mysak is internationally known for his extensive applications of mathematics to physical oceanography, his basic research on natural climate variability of the Arctic, and the development and application of global earth system models to various climate phenomena. He has investigated the influence of El Nino on fish migration, and has modelled the climate of the warm dinosaur era, the cold glacial periods, and the inception of the ice ages, past and future.
Dr. Mysak has supervised the research of over 75 graduate and post doctoral students (20 of whom are now professors in 11 countries). For his supervisory work he was awarded in 2000 the McGill University David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Teaching. Dr. Mysak has also given 600 lectures at scientific and educational institutions, conferences and public forums in 25 countries. Dr. Mysak has published over 160 refereed journal papers and has co-authored (with P.H. LeBlond, FRSC) the widely referenced, 600-page treatise "Waves in the Ocean" (1978). This book has been translated into Russian and Chinese.
Dr. Mysak is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Publisher (Germany) Atmosphere and Ocean Library Series. At the 24th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Perugia, Italy, he was elected President of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) for the four-year term 2007-2011. In this capacity, he will be responsible for the organization of international conferences on oceanography and climate in Melbourne (2011) and Sweden (2013).
In 1986, Dr. Mysak was elected, by the Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), and during 1993-96 he served as president of the 900-member Academy of Science, the largest of the three academies comprising the Society. In November 1996, Dr. Mysak was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) for his distinguished contributions to science. In addition to the above honours, Dr. Mysak has received the Patterson Medal from the Meteorological Service of Canada (1998), and the Tully Medal for oceanography from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) (1998). In 2006 he received the Alfred Wegener Medal for climate research from the European Geosciences Union and also the Prix du Quebec for outstanding contributions to the natural sciences. Dr. Mysak was elected as an inaugural Fellow of CMOS in 1999, and he is one of only a handful of Canadians who is a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society (2000) and the American Geophysical Union (2000). He was inducted in 2000 as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, which is a 2000-member academy for the arts and sciences in the European Union. Most recently (Oct. 2009), he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Univ. of Alberta.
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