Charles Lin

Charles.Lin at ec.gc.ca

Charles Lin has been the Director General, Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, nvironment Canada, since 2007. He holds a Ph. D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1979. He was a research scientist with Environment Canada in 1979-80, and held faculty positions at the University of Toronto (1980-86) and at McGill University (1986-2006). At McGill,  he served as the Chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from 1998-2003, and was the Director of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) from 2004-06. He has published over 60 articles in refereed scientific journals in dynamic meteorology and climate studies. He was awarded the President's Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in 2002, and appointed a Fellow of the Society in 2004.