Personal Profile

Position: Professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth & Ocean Sciences
Office: EOS-South building, room 162
Phone: (604) 822-2821
FAX: (604) 822-6088
E-mail: whsieh "at" eos.ubc.ca
Mailing (and courier) address: Dept. of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Univ. of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, Canada
Research web site: www.ocgy.ubc.ca/projects/clim.pred/index.html
Curriculum vitae

B.Sc. U.B.C. (1976) (combined honours in Mathematics & Physics);
M.Sc. U.B.C. (1978) (Physics);
Ph.D. U.B.C. (1981) (Physics and Oceanography).
Post-doctoral: Cambridge University (Dept. of Applied Maths. & Theoretical Physics) 1981-82; University of New South Wales (School of Mathematics) 1983-85.
Visiting Fellow: Princeton University (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) 1992.
Professor (till 30 June 2010), Dept. of Earth & Ocean Sciences and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy; Chair of the Atmospheric Science Programme, 2002-2007, 2008-2010; and member of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, U.B.C.
President's Prize (1999), Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, U.B.C., 2000.
Fellow of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (2010).