Alex Cannon
... for his 2018 paper "Multivariate quantile mapping bias correction: an N-dimensional probability density function transform for climate model simulations of multiple variables", published in Climate Dynamics.  Dr. Cannon's paper tackled a tricky problem in the application of global climate change predictions to predict things that matter to individuals or communities: bias correction and downscaling.  The novel analytical approach detailed in Dr. Cannon's paper has been adopted around the globe. 

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    Gregory Smith
... for his leadership in the large Canadian Operational Network of Coupled Environmental PredicTion Systems (CONCEPTS) collaboration.  Greg took major scientific leadership over the last decade in the development, refinement and enrichment of the operational oceanographic systems that are running operationally today, and those under development with increased realism and accuracy. 

    Karen Smith
... for her leadership within CMOS as Chair of the School and Public Education Committee and driver of the improving Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Canadian weather, water, and climate workforce project. 

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    Rolf Lueck
... for advancing our knowledge of ocean turbulence.  His work transcends all aspects of ocean turbulence, from developing and refining the tools to measure it, to improving our fundamental understanding of it, to applying it to new areas of scientific inquiry, to the democratization of its study by the commercialization and production of those tools, and finally, to the mentoring of new generations of ocean scientists.  

    Andrew Grace
... for his excellent thesis titled “Numerical simulations of convection and gravity currents near the temperature of maximum density” (University of Waterloo)

    Jannes Koelling
... for his published article entitled “ Oxygen export to the deep ocean following Labrador Sea water formation ”, which showed meticulous work and outstanding and convincing results on the different steps between the oxygen uptake at surface and its export within the Deep Western Boundary Current, thus confirming the importance of Labrador Sea deep convection in the oxygenation of the deep North Atlantic.  

    Carolyn Buchwald
... for her 2016 paper “ Constraining the role of iron in environmental nitrogen transformations: Dual stable isotope systematics of abiotic NO₂ reduction by Fe (II) and its production of N₂O,” published in the Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Dr. Buchwald’s paper elucidated the isotope systematics of nitrogen; helping to disentangle the reaction pathways of nitrogen in relation to ecosystem function, the production of greenhouse gases, and the reconstruction of the evolution of iron and nitrogen-based metabolic and abiotic pathways .

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    Richard Dewey
... for two decades of sustained technical efforts supporting ocean science. He was co-founder and science manager of the VENUS cabled ocean observatory, now part of Ocean Network Canada’s ocean observing systems. He currently leads the science services division at ONC, forming the liaison between outside scientists and the staff that run the observatory that is critical to its scientific success.

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    Tsz Kin (Eric) Lai
... for his excellent thesis titled “Impacts of asymmetric dynamics on tropical cyclone eyewall replacement cycles” (McGill University) 

    Shangfei Lin
... for his excellent thesis titled “Study of Wave-Current-Ice Interactions Over The Northwest Atlantic” (Dalhousie University) 

    Clark Pennelly
... for his excellent thesis titled “Modelling Sources of Stratification within the Labrador Sea” (University of Alberta) 

    Ana Franco (et al)
... for the published article titled “ Anthropogenic and climateic contributions to observed carbon system trends in the Northeast Pacific .”, for the importance of her subject, the hard work related to long-term data processing, the fact that her research “has already changed the carbon community perception” and the “careful, honest, (even disappointing) uncertainty estimates” she did. 

    Debra Wunch
... for her 2017 paper Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) XCO2 measurements with TCCON, published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Dr. Wunch’s paper was a data-evaluation technical tour-de-force, with 45 scientists from 19 institutions around the world, allowing for the measurement of CO2 from the OCO-2 satellite with sufficient precision and accuracy to unlock our understanding of greenhouse gas emission sources and natural sinks.

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    Leonard Zedel
... for his outstanding contributions to novel applications of underwater acoustics to oceanography in Canada. The topics are so diverse as to defy summary: from fish swimming to snow falling on water to sediment transport and many more.

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    J. Robert Keeley
... for his career‐long dedication to the development of modern data systems in oceanography and, in particular, for his role in the creation of the data management system for the global Argo float program. Bob stood out in the international Argo data management team due to his leadership skills and his deep and functional knowledge of ocean observing systems, from the in situ sensor to the international bureaucracy.

    Kristof Bognar
... for his excellent thesis titled Studies of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Ozone, NO2, and BrO Using UV-Visible Spectroscopy in the Arctic and at Mid-latitudes (University of Toronto)

Nadya Moisseeva
... for her excellent thesis titled A numerical perspective on wildfire plume-rise dynamics (University of British Columbia)

Natasha Ridenour
... for her excellent thesis titled On the Circulation and Freshwater Dynamics of the Hudson Bay Complex (University of Alberta)

Jesse Velay-Vitow
... for his outstanding productivity, outreach and leadership during his first two years of PhD studies in atmospheric physics (University of Toronto)

    Russell Blackport
... for his recent paper Minimal influence of reduced Arctic sea ice on coincident cold winters in mid-latitudes published in Nature Climate Change in 2019. While recent severe winters over North America and Eurasia are still puzzling climate scientists, this paper uses a simple yet powerful physics-based approach to demonstrate that record-low Arctic sea ice coverage was not the root cause.

    Victoria Slonosky    (Montréal, QC )
... for her book Climate in the Age of Empire: Weather Observers in Colonial Canada , published in 2018. This book provides the rigorous, scientifically sound and complete historical climatology research that has long been lacking in North America, alongside engaging stories of the characters of Canada’s past, thereby contributing immensely to outreach with the public.

    Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Paul Vaillancourt and Ayrto Zadra    (Montréal, QC)
... for their significant contributions to numerical weather prediction in Canada over the last seven years. Because of the implementation of their innovations in atmospheric model physics, the Canadian model has leapt forward and is now one of the best global weather predictions systems in the world.

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    Trevor Smith    (Coqitlam, BC)
... for over 25 years of service, improving forecasting in British Columbia, and his leadership in forecasting for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as well as his role in training teams forecasting for Olympic games in other countries.

    Ken Denman     (Victoria, BC)
... for his pioneering work across disciplines within oceanography, on Canada’s east and west coasts, leading to advances in understanding and modelling both how the physical oceanographic setting organizes the biology and how the biology influences the physics that have been impactful on the world stage.

    Hakase Hayashida     (Hobart, Australia)
... for his excellent thesis titled Modelling sea-ice and oceanic dimethylsulfide production and emissions in the Arctic (University of Victoria)

    Dan Weaver    (Toronto, ON))
... for his excellent thesis titled Water vapour measurements in the Canadian High Arctic. (University of Toronto)

    Christina L. Smith    (Toronto, ON)
... for her recent paper Visibility and Line of-Sight Extinction Estimates in Gale Crater During the 2018/MY34 Global Dust Storm published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2019. When a global dust storm began on Mars last year, Christina argued early and convincingly for making daily observations of the ‘line-of-sight opacity’ across Gale Crater throughout the storm, a novel dataset that revealed complexity in how Martian dust storms evolve at local and regional scales.

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    Elizabeth Pattey
... for her long-standing leadership and significant contributions to agricultural meteorology, particularly tower-based flux measuring systems over agricultural fields which have contributed to improved quantification of pollutants and understanding of greenhouse gas exchanges from agricultural sources.

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Ron Hopkinson
... for his exceptional record of volunteering, mentorship and leadership roles encompassing various positions with CMOS at both the provincial and national levels.

    Douglas McCollor
... for his long-standing leadership and distinctive work in establishing an operational meteorology program which has become an integral part in operational response and planning activities in a large Canadian hydropower electrical utility company.

    John Smith
... for his original research identifying and documenting various pollution problems in Canadian coastal regions, determining sedimentation rates in Canadian coastal regions, and monitoring and evaluating potential hazards of various sources of anthropogenic radionuclides and their transport toward and into Canadian waters.

    Carsten Abraham
... for his excellent thesis at the University of Victoria titled “Regime occupation and transition information obtained from observable meteorological state variables in the stably stratified nocturnal boundary layer.”

Sisi Chen
... for her excellent thesis at McGill University titled “Impacts of turbulence on cloud microphysics and warm-rain initiation”

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    Kirsten Zickfeld
... for her 2009 paper “Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zickfeld’s paper was the first to propose that international climate policy targets aimed at avoiding “dangerous anthropogenic interference” could be based on limiting cumulative carbon emissions, and continues to be highly cited.

    Alex J. Cannon
... for his important contributions to the understanding of our surface hydrology and climatic extremes in Canada, and how they might change in the future, for his application of Artificial Intelligence methods to meteorological and climatological problems, and for his unselfish dedication to making his software tools freely available to the scientific community.

    Jinyu Sheng
... for his significant contributions in the development and application of coupled numerical ocean models for the improved understanding of coastal, shelf and ocean dynamics and extreme marine events off Canada’s east coast.

Oscar Koren
... for his longstanding service and excellence supporting the annual Congress meetings with his effective and productive leadership of the exhibits program. <

    Bruno Larochelle
... for his outstanding leadership and work in developing innovative meteorological tools supporting the needs of operational aviation meteorologists.

    Michael Foreman
... for his original research in coastal oceanography, tidal prediction, numerical ocean models and applications of this research to oceanographic, navigation, fisheries and aquaculture problems. His watershed models used to produce ten-day ahead flow and temperature predictions during the upstream sockeye salmon migration in the Fraser River, for example, is now used as a standard DFO and Pacific Salmon Commission management tool.

    Katarzyna Tokarska
... for her excellent thesis at the University of Victoria titled “The carbon-climate system response at high amounts of cumulative carbon emissions, and the role of non-CO2 forcing and observational constraints on cumulative carbon budgets.”

Chad Thackeray
... for his excellent thesis at the University of Waterloo titled “Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo.”

    Megan Kirchmeier-Young
... for her study of the disastrous Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016 “Attributing extreme fire risk in Western Canada to human emissions” which was published in Climatic Change (2017). The paper demonstrates important progress on wildfire event attribution by focusing attention on climatological and meteorological fire risk factors rather than the fire statistics themselves.

    Patrick Cummins, Diane Masson
... jointly for their 2014 paper “Climatic variability and trends in the surface waters of coastal British Columbia” published in Progress in Oceanography . This paper shows how variability in surface properties is related to the influence of freshwater discharge and wind stress, and that statistically significant warming trends are emerging.

    E. Ray Garnett
... for his long and dedicated service in the development and interpretation of climatological products for the agricultural sector.

    Alfonso Mucci
... for his significant contributions in documenting the bottom-water hypoxia of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary and in evaluating the geochemical impact of the catastrophic flash flood of the Saguenay Fjord of July 19, 1996.

Paul-André Bolduc
... for his exceptional devotion as a CMOS volunteer and especially for his many years as editor of the CMOS Bulletin SCMO and the Annual Review of CMOS .

    David Sills
... for his outstanding contributions to operational meteorology services, both through training operational forecasters and developing new tools to improve the delivery of nowcasting and warning programs.

    Keith Thompson
... for his profound and lasting contributions to the understanding of the oceanography of Canadian waters and his commitment to providing predictive tools for oceanic variables of societal concern.

    Shiliang Shan
... for his excellent thesis at Dalhousie University titled “Eulerian And Lagrangian Studies of Circulation on the Scotian Shelf and Adjacent Deep Waters of the North Atlantic with Biological Implications”.

Oliver Watt-Meyer
... for his excellent thesis at the University of Toronto titled “The Role of Standing and Travelling Waves in Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling.”

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