Dr. Bill Simpson is an environmental chemist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he works as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and performs research with the Geophysical Institute. He currently is the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Chair, where he helps teach students about Environmental, Physical, and General Chemistry. His research focuses on how the Arctic processes pollutants differently from other parts of the Earth. A major focus of the work is how snow and ice and chemicals on their surfaces speed chemical processing. Changing Arctic sea ice conditions are altering these snow and ice surfaces, and he hopes to understand how those climatic change may affect atmospheric chemical processing.
Bill Simpson’s website at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Jan was the lead scientist for several large field studies in recent years such as the OASIS-CANADA, Polar Sunrise Experiment 1992, PACIFIC93, ATLANTIC96 and ALERT2000, and the results of these studies have been published in special issues of key scientific journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research and Atmospheric Environment.
Born in the Netherlands, Jan received his education from the University of Amsterdam, and after post doctoral work in Japan and the US came to Canada in 1975. After a stint in Alberta he came to Toronto in 1980 where he has been employed by Environment Canada since that time.
