William Richard Peltier

William Richard Peltier ( born 1943 ) is a Canadian geophysicist, professor at the University of Toronto and is discussed in particular climate change in the last ice age.

Peltier studied physics at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at the University of Toronto with a Master's degree in 1969 and his doctorate in 1971. He subsequently Lecturer, Associate Professor in 1974 and Professor in 1979. He heads the Centre for Global Change Science. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Since the early 1990s, he developed models for the global sea level change due to melting of the ice caps, first ICE - 3G, then 4G ICE and ICE -5G. He also deals with geophysical hydrodynamics, both in Earth's atmosphere and oceans as well as in the mantle ( mantle ).

2002 to 2005 he was a visiting professor at the Institut de Physique du Globe Paris University VII 1987/88 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Bullard Laboratories of the University of Cambridge and 1978/79 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) in Boulder.

In 2004 he received the Vetlesen Prize, 2004, J. Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union and the Bancroft Award of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2004 he became a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he received the Milankovitch Medal of the European Geosciences Union and the 2010 Bower Award of the Franklin Institute.