User:Groomsc/John P. Smol

John P. Smol, FRSC is a professor in the Biology Department of Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and is a director of the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Dr. Smol has won a great many science, public service and teaching awards including the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, as Canada's top scientist or engineer.

John is the editor or has been an editor of at least two science journals. He has over 400 peer-reviewed publications and has written several books on a range of science topics.

Much of John's research involves Arctic palaeolimnology and has applications to climate change science. However, he has expanded his interests both geographically and physically. Recently John has taken to paleoscatology involving birds like chimney swifts and bats. His interests have expanded greatly in tropical regions.