About me
Douw Steyn, PhD, ACM, FCMOS is a Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric
Science at The University of British Columbia, in the Department of Earth Ocean
and Atmospheric Sciences, and is an emeritus member of the Institute for Applied
Mathematics, the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the
Liu Institute for Global Issues. He has served as Associate Dean (Research and
Faculty Development) in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Principal of the
College for Interdisciplinary Studies. His professional, teaching and research
activities are in the field of air pollution meteorology, boundary layer meteorology,
mesoscale meteorology, environmental science and interdisciplinary science.
His research involves measurement and modelling studies of regional air
pollution, especially in regions with complex terrain. This work involves modelling
of near-surface emissions of pollutants and their precursors, atmospheric flow
and turbulence modelling, and modelling of chemical transformation of air
pollutants. He has worked extensively on the statistics of air pollution, air
pollution monitoring and monitoring network design. He is winner of a UBC Killam
Teaching Prize, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Andrew
Thompson Prize in Applied Meteorology, and the Canadian Federation for Earth
Sciences Mentorship Medal. He has served as Chair of the scientific committee
that leads the International Technical Meeting series on Air Pollution Modelling
and its Application. He publishes regularly in the international peer reviewed
literature, and served as managing editor of the journal Atmosphere-Ocean. He
is an Accredited Consulting Meteorologist, and has international consultancy
experience in his areas of expertise, and has provided expert testimony in
numerous court cases and appeal board hearings and environment assessment
panels in British Columbia and Nationally
