John P Smol

JOHN P. SMOL , OC, PhD, FRSC, FRS is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen's University (Canada). Smol founded and co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), a group of 40 students and other scientists dedicated to the study of long-term global environmental change, and especially as it relates to lake ecosystems. John has authored >660 journal publications and chapters, as well as completed 22 books. Smol was the...See more

JOHN P. SMOL , OC, PhD, FRSC, FRS is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen's University (Canada). Smol founded and co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), a group of 40 students and other scientists dedicated to the study of long-term global environmental change, and especially as it relates to lake ecosystems. John has authored >660 journal publications and chapters, as well as completed 22 books. Smol was the founding Editor of the J. Paleolimnology (1987-2007) and is current Editor of Environmental Reviews (2004 - present). Since 1990 he has received six honorary doctorates and has been awarded >70 research and teaching awards and fellowships, including the International Society of Limnology Naumann-Thienemann Medal , both the Hutchinson Award and the Margalef Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the International Ecology Institute Prize , and the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal as Canada's top scientist or engineer. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his environmental work, a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) , and was elected President of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada (2019-2022). See less