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Francis Zwiers

Francis Zwiers

Scientist Emeritus

Contact:
250-721-6236
Credentials:
D.Sc. Honorary (Western), Ph.D. Statistics (Dalhousie), M.Sc. Statistics (Acadia), B.Math (Waterloo)

Biography

Dr. Francis Zwiers is the Scientist Emeritus at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) at the University of Victoria. His former roles include director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), chief of the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis and director of the Climate Research Division, both at Environment and Climate Change Canada. As a research scientist, his expertise is in the application of statistical methods to the analysis of observed and simulated climate variability and change. Dr. Zwiers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, a recipient of the Patterson Medal and President’s Prize, has served as an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author of the Fourth Assessment Report and as an elected member of the IPCC Bureau for the Fifth Assessment Report.

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