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Peter Jones
 OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCE AND RESEARCH Peter was born on January 17, 1935 in Trail, BC. He attended school in Trail and after graduation, attended the University of British Columbia, obtaining a Bachelor?s Degree in Engineering, Physics in 1958; and a P.H.D. in Physics in 1963.
He spent the next year and a half at the University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, as a National Research Counsel Post Doctorate Fellow, then two years at Columbia University in New York City as a Research Associate. In 1966, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Toledo in Ohio, and in 1972, was a Visiting Associate Professor at MacMaster University in Hamilton.
In 1973, he moved to the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, where he has been working ever since. Peter?s research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography has been mostly in the Arctic and Labrador Sea. In 1976, he made his first voyage north of the Arctic Circle to Lancaster Sound in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. This was followed by several other voyages to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay. Subsequently, he was the principle investigator on several international Arctic Ocean expeditions.
Between Arctic expeditions, he joined an expedition on the German icebreaker POLARSTERN, the first scientific voyage into the Arctic Ocean in modern times, exploiting modern technologies. In 1987, Peter again joined the POLARSTERN in another expedition that obtained the first modern oceanographic section across a major basin within the Arctic Ocean. In 1991, he was aboard the Swedish icebreaker ODEN on another expedition. He was aboard the Canadian icebreaker LOUIS ST. LAURENT, that together with the US icebreaker POLAR SEA, was the first ship to cross the Arctic Ocean.
In addition to work in the Arctic, since 1986, Peter has been on annual and sometimes seasonal expeditions to the Labrador Sea and neighbouring regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Peter?s work on the Arctic Ocean is related mostly to questions of climate and climate change. The work has helped to build a much more complete picture of processes and circulation within the Arctic Ocean Basin and has shown that the Arctic Ocean is a more active participant in global climate processes than previously thought.
The Labrador Sea studies are also in the context of climate change and variability, specifically focusing on the sequestering of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the ocean. In 1994, Goteborg University (Sweden) awarded Peter the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, siting his oceanographic research in the Arctic Ocean.
Dr. Jones is clearly recognized as a national and international authority on the Arctic Ocean, and processes within it. He is also clearly recognized as a national and international authority, on the sequestering of anthropogenus carbon dioxide in oceans. A significant mark of international recognition of his work and respect of it, was being named to the Scientific Steering Group of the Arctic Science System Studies, a program formed under the World Climate Research Program.
Peter has published 65 scientific papers and refereed science journals, and has written 3 chapters for books and one for an encyclopedia and has been an author on about 100 presentations at science meetings, and has given invited talks at several universities and many science meetings.
Peter married Helen Hill in 1961. They have two adult children, Evan and Rachel. The Jones? have one grandchild, Carson, born in 2000.
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