Born in Ottawa, raised in Montreal, educated at McGill and McMaster Universities, completing my doctorate in 1975, the topic of interest being heat transfer to melting glacier ice. Following my appointment to Geography at the Mississauga Campus, research into evaporation from wetlands was pursued before permanently returning to glacier research in 1987, becoming best known for my discoveries on turbulent transfer in the glacier boundary-layer. My current efforts, in collaboration with the Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, are toward opening my research data on Peyto Glacier to others and exploring questions that I have not previously had time to address.