Prof. Thomas J. Duck
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science,
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5

Tel: (902)494-1456
Fax: (902)494-5191
E-mail: tom.duck@dal.ca

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. You may be interested in my Research Home Page which describes my work with lidar (laser radar) remote sensing and interests in Arctic climate and air quality.

My Ph.D. work in Physics was conducted at York University, and my adventures in the High Arctic as a graduate student are described in this Photographic Tour of Eureka. I have continued my Arctic work with the Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change, with a new focus on clouds and radiation. I also operate an atmospheric observatory in the Dunn Building and was a Co-Investigator for the successful Phoenix Mars Scout mission in 2008.

Classes

I teach, or have taught, the following classes:

• PHYC 2050 - Computer Simulation in Science
• PHYC 3250 - Computational Methods in Physics
• PHYC/OCEA 4411/5411 - Atmospheric Dynamics I
• PHYC/OCEA 4412/5412 - Atmospheric Dynamics II
• PHYC 4500 - Atmospheric Physics I: Thermodynamics

News And Events

3 July 2010

The Dalhousie Raman Lidar is operational for the summer. See our live lidar images.

30 June 2010

The Atmospheric-Optics Laboratory welcomes Rob Trigwell and Eddy Barratt who are visiting from University of Edinburgh. Both will help operate the lidar during the BORTAS A campaign.

5 May 2010

The Atmospheric-Optics Laboratory welcomes undergrads Kim Sakamoto, Kaja Rotermund, and Loren Bailey to the group. They will operate the lidar and Dalhousie Ground Station during the BORTAS A campaign.