Professeur Invité, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris VII 2004 Professor Invité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris VII 2005–present Adjunct professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo 2006 Visiting professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Bjerknes center for Marine Research, University of Bergen, Norway 2009 Professeur Invite Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 2009 Honours and awards Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1977-1979 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial fellowship, 1978-1980 Kirk Bryan Award Geological Society of America Killam Senior Research Fellowship Canada Council for the Arts. 1980-1982 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1986- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1986- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1986-1988 Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1988- Senior fellow of Massey College University of Toronto, 1989- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 1991- Patterson Medal of the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada, 1992 Appointment to the rank of university professor, highest rank at the University of Toronto, 1993- Distinguished Lecturer of the Canadian Geophysical Union, 1999–2000 Science Watch listing as the fifth most highly cited earth scientists in the world, all disciplines included, 2001 Elected as Foreign Member to Fellowship in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2004 Bancroft Award of the Royal Society of Canada, 2004 J. Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union, 2004 Vetlesen Prize, the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation of New York, 2004 Leiv Erikson Fellow, Norwegian Research Council, Bjerknes Institute for Climate Research, Univ. of Bergen, 2006 Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, 2006 Milutin Milankovic Medal of the European Geosciences Union, 2008 web announcement CAP Gold medal for Achievement in Physics Canadian Association of Physicists, 2009 Charles A. Whitten Medal American Geophysical Union, 2010 The Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science - Earth Systems Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 2010 The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2011 Killam Prize in Natural Science Canada Council for the Arts, 2012 See also List of University of Waterloo people List of geophysicists References External links Home page of Dr. Peltier University Professor page for Dr. Peltier Science Watch #5 most cited in geosciences, 1991-2001 March 27, 2007 Toronto Star article "Reassessing the gravity of the situation" 1943 births Living people Canadian physicists Canadian climatologists Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors Fellows of the Royal Society