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Paul H. Beckwith, M. Sc., B. Eng.
238 Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario. Home: (613)-233-3957 Cell: (613)-979-3957
[email protected], [email protected]; [email protected]
PROFILE
Part-time professor in climatology; working on Ph.D. in abrupt climate change.
Engineering and physics background with varied experience base including product
management and organization, teaching, and research (academic and corporate).
EDUCATION
2011 – present: Fast-track switch to Ph.D. program (Department of Geography;
Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology) at University of Ottawa, Ontario.
2010 – 2011: In M. Sc. program (Geography; Climatology) at University of Ottawa,
Ontario.
2003 – 2005: Completed courses in Ph.D. program (Physics) at University of Ottawa,
Ontario.
1984 – 1986: M. Sc. (Physics), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1980 – 1984: B. Eng. (Engineering Physics), McMaster University.
WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Ontario
Part-time Professor, Geography Department
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2011 - present
Part-time professor; taught second year climatology class (GEG2304: class size
roughly 100 students) in both Fall/2011 and Fall/2012 terms
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Ontario
2010 - present
Ph.D. student, Laboratory for Paleoclimatology, Geography Department
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Studying abrupt climate change, climatology, meteorology
Courses completed: Geographic Information Systems GIS(A+), Directed
Research on Contemporary Climate Change(A+), Applications in remote
Sensing(A+), Climate of Polar Regions(A+), Environmental Change in Polar
regions(A+), Directed research in abrupt climate change(Pass), Arctic climate
change(A+), Statistical methods(A+), Science and Policy Seminar (A-)
Audited courses for interest: Climatology, Hydrology, Remote sensing of polar
regions, Politics of Climate Change, Oceanography, Earth and Climate
(Geology), Quaternary Studies, Advanced Geographic Information Systems,
Biogeography, Physics of the Earth
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Teaching Assistant: Marking for Geomorphology, Polar Regions, Taught
Climatology laboratories, ran field camp on Lake Isabel (Quebec) and region
(Physical Geography), Geography of Canada and regions, Cold regions hydrology
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL, Quebec City, Rimouski, 2010 (Summer School, 18
days); Summer School in paleoceanography with the IODP (International Ocean
Drilling Program) including 2 days on a research ship on the St. Lawrence river. Had
leadership role and oversaw research report written with 20 colleagues in the
program.
CHESS TEACHER, Glebe Community Center and Old Ottawa South Community
Center, Ottawa
2006 – present
Teaching chess to youth (ages 7 – 11) and adults; running chess tournaments,
promoting the game of chess to young children
CHESS FEDERATION OF CANADA, Ottawa
2007 – 2009
Member of the Executive Director team for running this national non-profit
organization aimed at promoting the game of chess in Canada.
CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY, Ottawa
2006 - 2007
Independent Research and Study of Climate Change Science and Effects; lobbying of
members of parliament (Liberal Environmental Critic John Godfrey and others),
MPPs and city councilers, generated petitions to honor Kyoto, collected 1200
signatures and presented to parliament (by John Godfrey).
RENOVATING COTTAGE, HOUSE
2005 – 2007
Restoration of 100 year old house; addition to cottage; energy efficiency upgrades to
house (to improve Energy efficiency rating from 35 to 69).
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Ontario
Ph.D. student, Fiber Optics Group, Department of Physics
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Studied nonlinear fiber optics (Stimulated Brillouin Scattering)
Graduate Courses completed: Advanced Quantum Mechanics(A+), Statistical
Mechanics(A-), Solid State Physics(A), Nonlinear Optics(A+), and (unofficially)
Fiber Optics(A)
Audited courses for interest: Computational Physics I and II, Fourier Optics,
Mathematical Cryptography, Mathematical Quantum Computation, Elementary
Particle Physics
Teaching Assistant: Taught first year physics problem solving sessions; marked
assignments/midterms
JDS UNIPHASE, Ottawa, Ontario
Product Line Manager, Optical Switches, Optical Layer Group
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2003 - 2005
2000 - 2003
Product Line Manager for fiber optic network components: A) Wavelength
Blocker, B) Wavelength Switch, C) Multi-port Wavelength Switch, and D)
Optical Cross Connect
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Responsibilities: Overall coordination of strategy for transitioning products from
Exploratory Research proof-of-concept  engineering product development
qualification and reliability testing  volume manufacturing
Interfaced with numerous customers to determine optimal product requirements
Worked closely with internal groups: Exploratory Research, Engineering
Development, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, and Finance
Provided volume forecasts, performed competitive analysis on rivals andproduct
cost analysis and pricing
Attended various trade shows including OFC and NFOEC to market the products
ATI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Thornhill, Ontario
Software Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Department
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Performed Software Quality Assurance testing of Video Graphics Adapter Cards
for the Desktop and Laptop Computers
Learned various software packages including Benchmarks, Test Suites,
Networking, Business and Office Suites in various operating systems (Windows
95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000)
Worked at Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Laboratories (WHQL) in
Seattle for obtaining certification of ATI Driver Software
CHESS AND MATH ASSOCIATION, Toronto, Ontario
Assistant Regional Manager, Chess Instructor
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1991
Researched nonlinear optics, studied two-wave mixing properties in doped glass
Performed image processing experiments (AND, OR, XOR operations) using
liquid crystal devices
Studied passive mode locking of titanium-doped sapphire laser
LUMONICS, INC., Ottawa, Ontario
Staff Scientist, Advanced Development Group
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1992 - 1996
Chess Master Title, draw with Woman’s World Champion, attained ranking of
43rd in Canada, played 35 people simultaneously
Studied and taught chess (literature, computer databases)
Played in numerous tournaments; have beaten most of Canada’s top players
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, Ottawa, Ontario
Research Assistant, Institute for Information Technology
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1994 - 1996
Taught chess lessons (in schools, plus privately) to children
Administered the Toronto office (bookstore and retail outlet) for chess supplies
Scheduled for 15 chess teachers in 30 schools
PROFESSIONAL CHESS PLAYER
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1996 - 2000
1989 – 1991
Conducted research and development on dye lasers and XeCl excimer lasers
Improved laser lifetimes, increased powers and optimized pulse shapes/durations
of new high repetition rate lasers, developed optical feedback techniques
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Performed theoretical and experimental studies on tunable titanium-doped
sapphire laser systems, developed narrow linewidth oscillator/amplifier system
Obtained patent for a monitoring system to keep track of contamination of optics
for any gas laser system
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL, Thousand Oaks, Ca
Senior Research Specialist, Research Division, Applied Optics
1986 – 1988
Conducted research in nonlinear optics, specifically on phase conjugation and twowave mixing in the following areas:
- Double-pass image transmission/restoration in fibers by phase conjugation
- Phase-conjugate multimode fiber optic gyroscopes
- Two-wave mixing in artificial photorefractive media, and liquid crystals
- Real-time optical image subtraction using dynamic holographic interference
- High speed, high reflectivity phase conjugation in diode lasers and laser arrays
- Phase–locking of semiconductor laser diodes and diode arrays
McMASTER UNIVERSITY, M. Sc. Laser Physics
Graduate Student and Research Assistant, Department of Physics
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. John Reid
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Probed steady state and transient molecules created by CO2 laser multiphoton
dissociation of chloroform and deuterated chloroform using tunable diode lasers
Development work on an optically pumped, pulsed NH3 laser for lidar
applications (measured gain versus temperature, pressure, pump energy…)
Developed a computerized system to fit infrared absorption data to Voigt profiles
to determine molecular constants such as linestrength and pressure broadening
parameters of various gases (i.e. NH3, DCl, and HTO)
Simulated injection locking of a pulsed CO2 laser with a tunable diode laser
Performed undergraduate tutorial teaching, laboratory demonstration, and marking
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, Ottawa.
Research Assistant, Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics
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Summer 1983
Plasma physics computer simulation studies of containment vessels in fusion
systems
ONTARIO HYDRO, Toronto, Ontario
Summer Student, Nuclear Studies and Safety Division
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Summer 1984
Plasma physics research into upflowing ionospheric ions and their role in the
Aurora Borealis
Analysis of data from the Dynamics Explorer Satellite
McMASTER UNIVERSITY
Research Assistant, Department of Engineering Physics
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1984 – 1986
Summer 1982
Undertook in computer simulation studies of CANDU reactor bi-directional
fuelling schemes
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS
NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS)
University of Ottawa Graduate Scholarship (Full tuition, Geography)
University of Ottawa Graduate Scholarship (Full tuition, Geography)
IODP (International Ocean Drilling Program, Summer school fees)
University of Ottawa Research Stipend (Summer)
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
University of Ottawa Scholarship (Full tuition, Physics)
Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
Hooker Graduate Scholarship
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario Gold Medal
Hooker Graduate Scholarship
NSERC Summer Research Award
NSERC Summer Research Award
Governor’s Entrance Scholarship
Dean’s Honors List
University Scholarship
Whidden Hall Scholarship
University Scholarship
A. P. E. O. Scholarship
2011 – 2013
2011 – now
2010 – 2011
2010 (July)
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2004 – 2005
2003 – 2005
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1985 – 1986
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1984 – 1985
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PATENTS
Thomas Ducellier, Ian MacDonald, Jasvinder Obhi, Barry Keyworth, Paul Beckwith,
Jack Tomlinson, United States Patent No. 7,014,326 titled “Wavelength Blocker”,
March 21, 2006 (JDS Uniphase work)
Paul Beckwith, United States Patent No. 5,005,177 titled “Laser Optics Quality
Monitoring”, April 2, 1991 (Lumonics work)
OTHER INTERESTS
Scuba diving, chess and duplicate bridge, photography, social media (Facebook:
“Paul Beckwith”, Twitter “PaulHBeckwith”, LinkedIn) and prolific blogger (samples
below); strong advocate for instigating climate change policies in government at all
levels (Federal, Provincial, Municipal).
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTED PAPERS: Paul H. Beckwith
Contributer to report: “The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism” posted
in December, 2010 at www.skepticalscience.com
Simon Boothroyd, Les Chan, Paul Beckwith, and Jacek Chrostowski, Optical
Processing in Fluorescein Doped Boric Acid Glass”, National Research Council of
Canada document, March (1991).
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Paul Beckwith, John Montgomery, and John Reid, May (1990) “Development of a
Prototype Titanium Sapphire Laser Amplifier” for the National Research Council of
Canada, Project DSS File #31943-9-0002/01-52 (Lumonics work)
Ian McMichael, Bill Christian, Paul Beckwith, Monte Khoshnevisan and Pochi Yeh,
“Phase-Conjugate Fiber-Optic Gyros”, Presented at the conference on Photorefractive
Material, Effects, and Devices, Jan 17 – 19, Aussois, France.
Jon White, Doug Bruce, Paul Beckwith, and John Reid, Efficient optically pumped
NH3 amplifiers in the 10 to 12 µm region”, Appl. Phys. B, 50, 345-354 (1990).
Pochi Yeh, Arthur Chiou, John Hong, Paul Beckwith, Tallis Chang, and Monte
Khoshnevisan, “Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics and Optical Computing”, Opt. Eng.
28, 328 (1989). (Received Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize from SPIE on July 11,
1990, for the most noteworthy original paper to appear in Optical Engineering).
Ian McMichael, Paul Beckwith, and Pochi Yeh, “Multimode Fiber Gyro using a
mutually pumped conjugator”, OSA conference (1988).
Ian McMichael, Paul Beckwith, and Pochi Yeh, “Double Phase-Conjugate
Resonators”, OSA conference (1988).
William Christian, Paul Beckwith, and Ian McMichael, Energy Transfer between
Injection-locked single-mode diode lasers by two-beam coupling in BaTiO3”, Opt.
Lett. 14, 81-83 (1989).
Paul Beckwith and William Christian, “Two-wave Mixing and Phase Conjugation at
830 nm in BaTi03”, Opt. Lett. 14, 642-644 (1989).
Paul Beckwith, William Christian, Ian McMichael, and Pochi Yeh, “Photorefractive
optics at near infrared wavelengths”, SPIE Vol. 1060 – Nonlinear Optical Beam
Manipulation and High Energy Beam Propagation through the Atmosphere, 1989.
Pochi Yeh, Tallis Chang, and Paul Beckwith, “Real-time Optical Image Subtraction
using Dynamic Holographic Interference in Photorefractive Media”, Opt. Lett. 13,
586-588 (1988).
Ian McMichael, Pochi Yeh, and Paul Beckwith, “Nondegenerate Two-Wave Mixing
in Ruby”, Opt. Lett. 13, 500-502 (1988).
Paul Beckwith, Tallis Chang, and Pochi Yeh, “Real-time Optical Image Subtraction
using Dynamic Holographic Interference in Photorefractive Media’, presented at the
Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Anaheim, California, April (1988).
Ian McMichael, Monte Khoshnevisan, and Paul Beckwith, “Nonlinear Optical
Ranging Imager”, presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Anaheim,
California, April (1988).
Ian McMichael, Paul Beckwith, and Pochi Yeh, “Phase-Conjugate Multimode Fiber
Gyro”, Opt. Lett 10, 1023-1025 (1987).
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Ian McMichael, Paul Beckwith, and Pochi Yeh, “Phase-Conjugate Multimode Fiber
Gyro”, presented at the Photrefractive Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, August 12 –
14 (1987).
Paul Beckwith, Ian McMichael, and Pochi Yeh, “Image Distortion in Multimode
Fibers and Restoration by Polarization-Preserving Phase Conjugation”, Opt. Lett. 12,
510-512 (1987).
Ian McMichael, Pochi Yeh, and Paul Beckwith, “Correction of Polarization and
Modal Scrambling in Multimode Fibers by Phase Conjugation”, Opt. Lett. 12, 507509 (1987).
John Reid, Ming-Hing Tai, Doug Bruce, and Paul Beckwith, “Gain Measurements in
a High Pressure CO2 Hot Cell”, Appl. Opt. (1987).
Paul Beckwith, “Tunable Diode Laser Diagnostics in Photochemistry”, M. Sc.
Thesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, September (1986).
Doug Bruce, Paul Beckwith, and John Reid, “Measurements of Small-Signal Gain
Coefficients in Optically-pumped NH3”, Report for Rockwell International, Seal
Beach Contract Number P6L8GNG-999921M.
Paul Beckwith, Carl Brown, Dave Danagher, Don Smith, and John Reid, “High
Sensitivity Detection of Transient Infrared Absorption using Tunable Diode Lasers”,
Appl. Opt. 26, 2643 (1987).
Pierre Cherrier, Paul Beckwith, and John Reid, “Linestrengths and Linewidths in the
n2 band of HTO as measured with a Tunable Diode Laser”, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 121,
69 (1987).
Pierre Cherrier, Paul Beckwith, and John Reid, “Infrared Spectroscopy of HTO using
Tunable Diode Lasers”, poster presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics, San Francisco, California, June 10 –14 (1986).
Paul Beckwith, Dave Danagher, and John Reid, “Linestrengths and Linewidths in the
n2 band of NH3 as measured with a Tunable Diode Laser”, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 121,
209 (1987).
Paul Beckwith, John Orlando, John Reid, and Don Smith, Analysis of the Products of
Photochemistry using Tunable Diode Lasers, with Application to the Multiphoton
Dissociation of Chloroform”, J. Photochem. (1985).
John Orlando, Don Smith, Paul Beckwith, and John Reid, “A Technique for
Detecting ppm of DCl using Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy”, poster
presented at the Regional Symposium on Molecular Dynamics, Photodissociation and
Related Topics, University of Waterloo, September 28 (1986).
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Andrew Yau, Paul Beckwith, W. Peterson, and E. Shelley, “Long-term (Solar Cycle)
and Seasonal Variations of Upflowing Ionospheric Ion Events at DE-1 Altitudes”, J.
Geophys. Res. 90, 6395 (1985).
Jen-Shih Chang, Paul Beckwith, and Joel Miller, “Unipolar Charging of Ultrafine
Particles under an Electric Field”, J. Aer. Sci. 15, 270 (1984).
SAMPLE BLOGS, PRESENTATIONS, AND LINKS: Paul H. Beckwith
Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology home page
http://www.lpc.uottawa.ca/members/beckwith/index.html
Active member of Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) since December, 2011
http://ameg.me/index.php/about-ameg
The Carbon Capture Report; summary of some of my activities
http://climatechange.carboncapturereport.org/cgibin//profiler?key=paul_beckwith&pt=2
Blogs for Sierra Club Canada
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/blog/paul-beckwith/bad-news-arctic-icecap-cracking
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/blog/paul-beckwith
Arctic News blog: various posts
http://arctic-news.blogspot.ca/search/label/Paul%20Beckwith
Climate Reality talk (upcoming): March 24, 2013
http://www.meetup.com/STL-Climate-Reality/events/103497242/
350 or bust blog (January 30, 2013)
http://350orbust.com/2013/01/30/will-the-bizarre-weather-in-ottawa-wake-up-theclimate-zombies-in-parliament/
Gzowski films: Radical weather patterns (January 29, 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MPbP-myvpLY
Elephant journal blog: Methane menacing man (December 21, 2012)
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/methane-menacing-man-paul-beckwith/
EcoShock radio interview, December 19, 2012
http://www.ecoshock.net/affiliates/20121219EcoshockPart2.mp3
http://www.ecoshock.info/2012/12/climate-arctic-thermostat-blows-up.html
The Canadian Daily blog (December 5, 2012): Our climate system
http://www.thecanadiandaily.ca/paul-beckwith-our-climate-system/
Climate change and the media (November, 2012)
http://reflectionson.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-01-20T13_26_08-08_00
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Quotes from me in San Francisco Examiner paper (November 1, 2012)
http://www.examiner.com/article/hurricane-sandy-intensifies-climate-debate
State of climate change (October 11, 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw1GEp8UBj4
Invited talk June 7, 2012 at “All party climate change caucus” meeting on Parliament
Hill to Canadian Members of Parliament
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByLujhsHsxP7NG42RjVQLXBrV1k/edit?pli=1
Talk to CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society)
http://www.cmos.ca/Ottawa/SpeakersSlides/PaulBeckwith_19Jan2012.pdf
Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community (June 14, 2011)
http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=806
Webinar on the science of climate change (March 19, 2010)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5563989
Sierra Club Canada (January 15, 2010): Climate change science since 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOW8sLwgKUk