Ted G. Shepherd

Theodore Gordon Shepherd

Education and career Shepherd was educated at the University of Toronto where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1979. for research supervised by Jule Gregory Charney and Peter B. Rhines on turbulence in Rossby waves.

Following his PhD, Shepherd was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge supervised by Michael E. McIntyre in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. After 24 years working at the University of Toronto in Canada he moved back to the United Kingdom in 2012,

Shepherd worked at the University of Toronto from 1988-2012, where he made pioneering contributions to Hamiltonian fluid mechanics while initiating and leading the Canadian national climate modelling effort focussed on ozone-climate coupling. He made several pivotal contributions to the understanding of the role of climate variability and change in interpreting the observed ozone record and in predicting future ozone recovery. Since moving to the University of Reading in 2012, he has highlighted the important role of atmospheric circulation in climate change, which has implications for regional adaptation and societal risk. a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007, the American Geophysical Union in 2010, and the American Meteorological Society in 2005.