Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - AOS News

Professor John Gyakum (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) Recipient of Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching 2025

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:43:39 +0000

A professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, John Gyakum is an exceptionally talented and gifted educator, who has shaped the learning experience for many students at every stage both within ɬ�﷬ and far beyond, leaving an indelible mark on their academic journeys and future pursuits. Professor Gyakum is equally effective when explaining complex ideas about weather systems to first year students as when leading discussions in more advanced courses on synoptic meteorology.

Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:09:25 +0000

(Madeleine Fol, Bruno Tremblay, Stephanie Pfirman, Robert Newton, Stephen Howell, Jean-François Lemieux)

Clouds attenuate the increase of downwelling longwave radiation over land under global warming

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:34:53 +0000

(Lei Liu, Yi Huang, John R. Gyakum)

A new paper published today.

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:21:51 +0000

A new paper from my lab is now published online in a Nature paper Today. (Writes Parisa Ariya)

Peter Yau wins Patterson Distinguished Service Medal

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:04:10 +0000

The Patterson Distinguished Service Medal is a prestigious award recognizing service to meteorology in Canada. Peter Yau is the 2022 winner of this award.

Announcing Summer 2021 Undergraduate Research Opportunities

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:38:21 +0000

There are currently three undergraduate research funding opportunities for Summer 2021: SURA, NSERC USRA, and Schull Yang International Experience Awards. These allow students to engage in a full-time summer research activity, and to gain research experience in an exciting academic setting, while receiving financial support. These are open to all B.Sc. and B.A. & Sc. students in the Faculty of Science. For Summer 2021, the Faculty of Science requires all project proposals to include a project the student can start and finish remotely.

Keep me safe! - Mental health resources

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:49:24 +0000

Please check the below link for resources available regarding mental health concerns:

https://ssmu.ca/blog/2020/03/mental-health-resource-available-keep-mesafe/

International students entering Canada

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:47:13 +0000

Please check the link below if you are an international student planning to enter Canada:

/internationalstudents/covid-19/entering-canada

Useful links for incoming/potential students

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:43:54 +0000

Please check the below link for useful information regarding working and learning remotely at Mcgill

/remote-students/

Collaboration between ɬ�﷬ AOS and ECCC

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:49:25 +0000

Excerpt from 'Metamorphosis of the solitary genius' Published on Nov 21 2019 on the CANADA'S INNOVATION LEADERS website (https://researchinfosource.com/cil/2019/editorials/metamorphosis-of-the-...)

VIP article in CHEMSUSCHEM (Volume 12, Issue 23)

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:07:32 +0000

This week, an article submitted by the Prof. Ariya's research group to ChemSusChem has been identified as VIP (very important article). The journal article is titled:

Natural Kaolin: Sustainable Technology for the Instantaneous and Energy-Neutral Recycling of Anthropogenic Mercury Emissions

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1864564x

2019 a Safety Ambassador award- AOS Weather Forecasting Team

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:40:29 +0000

Congratulations to the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Weather Forecasting Team (Prof. John Gyakum, Dr. Eyad Atallah, Christopher McCray (PhD student), Kai Melamed-Turkish (MSc student), Yeechian Low (MSc student) for the Safety Ambassador 2019 award for all their weather related-services for major events such as convocation ceremonies for the past years to the Emergency Management and Preparedness Unit.

Pictured accepting the award: L-R Christopher McCray, Yeechian Low and Kai Melamed-Turkish

Roddy Rogers, Professor Emeritus in AOS department, has passed away

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:17:54 +0000

It is with great sadness that I convey the news that Roddy Rogers, Professor Emeritus in our department, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has passed away on February 20.

Roddy, a giant in our field, was a world-renowned scientist, particularly in the areas of cloud physics and radar meteorology. His text, co-authored with Professor Yau, entitled “A short course in Cloud Physics” has been used by students and faculty throughout the globe.

Christopher McCray crunches Environment Canada numbers to show winters are getting more turbulent

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:44:15 +0000

Our very own Christopher McCray (PhD Student, ɬ�﷬ AOS) crunches Environment Canada numbers on rain, snow, temperature and freezing rain ' to quantify the weather whiplash Montrealers have been experiencing this winter'.

Read more about 'Weather Whiplash' on the Montreal Gazette website.

Maria Gheta, ɬ�﷬ artistic swim team wins the national title

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:24:43 +0000

Congratulations to our very own undergraduate student Maria Gheta on leading the Martlets to a national championship in the Canadian University Artistic Swimming League.

Amélie Desmarais attends the Emerging Leaders 2019 Conference

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:51:18 +0000

Amélie Desmarais, our MSc student, attended the Emerging Leaders 2019 Conference that was held in Norway in January of this year.

PDF Mainak Ganguly and prof. Parisa Ariya article published in Nature Publishing

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:07:34 +0000

Our department is happy to share another achievement of prof. Parisa Ariya's scientific group. Their study about the development of sustainable and recyclable technology for removal of toxic metals such as mercury, instantaneously, has been published in the Scientific Reports section of the international journal of science, Nature Publishing. This technique uses metals which are found in airborne particles and on soil, and it does not use energy, and recycle and remove all materials.

F1000Prime distinction for significant research contribution

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:10:46 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Parisa A. Ariya and Research Associate Roya Mortazavi for their published paper:

"Bomb cyclone rings in the New Year" - The ɬ�﷬ Tribune

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:26:20 +0000

Professor and Chair of our department, John Gyakum is featured in an article published in this week's issue of the The ɬ�﷬ Tribune. He is credited with coining the "bomb cyclone" term which has been trending in the national and international press, receiving huge amount of public attention before and in the aftermath of great blizzard storm at the beginning of this year. Read the full article here.

Award for our student Jade Sauvé

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:18:39 +0000

We are pleased to inform you that Jade Sauvé, one of our undergraduate students, supervised by her research advisor, Carolina Dufour, won the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society prize for the best student poster in physical oceanography or atmospheric sciences at the Québec Océan meeting two weeks ago.

The title of her poster is “"Antarctic sea ice trend: Insights from a suite of climate models.”

Please join us in congratulating them for this outstanding recognition.

A study realized by scientists from ɬ�﷬ and Columbia Universities featured in Arctic Now journal

ɬ�﷬ — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 01:26:42 +0000

Results from recent Earth's Future article based on a study co-authored by Prof. Bruno Tremblay covered in Arctic Now. Please click here to read the full article.

Published in the weekly journal of science Nature

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:10:52 +0000

An international team of researchers, including Prof. Andreas Zuend managed to publish their work as a letter in Nature titled “Surface tension prevails over solute effect in organic-influenced cloud droplet activation”.

Awards for our Students

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:29:33 +0000

We are pleased to inform you that Yevgen Nazaranko and Uday Kurien, both graduate students supervised by Prof. Parisa Ariya, have received awards of excellence in two different conferences:

Recent Student Awards at Major Conferences

ɬ�﷬ — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:12:23 +0000

We are pleased to inform you that Cécile Defforge, an M. Sc. Student supervised by Professor Tim Merlis, has received the Poster Student Award at the 32nd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, held during 17-22 April in San Juan, PR.

We are equally pleased to announce that that Kai Melamed-Turkish, has been awarded the CMOS Undergraduate Scholarship, at the recently held CMOS Congress, in Fredericton, NB, during 30 May - 2 June.

New featured article on Hg cycling in the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:10:49 +0000

Congratulations to AOS members including Uday! Another recent papers from our group, on Hg lamp recycling will appear as the feature article in Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. It is the third articles in three months that has become cover page, hot articles and feature articles from our group.

Here is the new article:

Mathematica Upgraded

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:04:02 +0000

Mathematica has been upgraded to the latest version on all departmental workstations. To use the latest version, please issue the following at the command-line:

mathematica

If you run into any issues with this new version please do not hesitate to contact itsupport.aos [at] mcgill.ca. Enjoy!

Our Research is on Two Cover Pages

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:42:20 +0000

It is our pleasure to inform you that the excellent work by students and postdocs in our department led to international distinctions of their research, which appeared on the cover page of JGR and Royal Society, and recognized as "hot article" during the last two months. They were also received over 100 major media coverages around the world.

ɬ�﷬ Study Shows Snow Soaks Up Toxic Pollutants In The Air

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:46:47 +0000

The Huffington Post interviews our very own Prof. Ariya about her, and her colleagues, research paper role of snow and cold environment in the fate and effects of nanoparticles and select organic pollutants from gasoline engine exhaust.

Major Discovery on the Role of Snow

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:23:14 +0000

Our very own Yevegen Nazerneko and Uday Kurien along with faculty member Parisa Ariya have published a paper that shows that snow acts as a sink for nanosized particles from car exhausts. The article is published in the Royal Society Journal and has become the subject of a full article in the Royal Society Chemistry World and is classified as a hot article. Congratulations to all those involved.

Faculty position available in Physical Oceanography

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:30:14 +0000

Tenure-track Faculty Available Position in Physical Oceanography

Mendeley Upgraded

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:37:27 +0000

Mendeley, the reference manager, has been upgraded to its latest version on all departmental workstations. To use the latest version, please issue the following at the command-line:

mendeley

If you run into any issues with this new version please do not hesitate to contact itsupport.aos [at] mcgill.ca. Enjoy!

New course offering (Winter 2016) for U0 Science students: Extreme-Weather and Climate-Change Physics

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:17:34 +0000

The department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences is pleased to announce the introduction of a new course: ATOC 100: Extreme-Weather and Climate-Change Physics.