2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
2010 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
1986 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Geophysics, Post-glacial rebound, Mantle, Sea level and Deglaciation are his primary areas of study. His Geophysics research incorporates elements of Convection and Mantle convection. His Post-glacial rebound study is concerned with Ice sheet in general.
His study in Mantle is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Geodesy, Compressibility, Discontinuity, Planet and Lithosphere. His Sea level study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Climatology, Last Glacial Maximum and Meltwater pulse 1A. His Deglaciation research includes elements of Ice age, North Atlantic Deep Water, Gravity anomaly and Pleistocene.
W. R. Peltier mainly focuses on Geophysics, Climatology, Mechanics, Sea level and Post-glacial rebound. His research on Geophysics focuses in particular on Mantle. His Climatology research integrates issues from Glacial period, Ice age, Climate change, Paleoclimatology and Ice sheet.
His research in Ice sheet intersects with topics in Cryosphere, Ice stream and Ice-sheet model. The Sea level study combines topics in areas such as Deglaciation, Holocene and Quaternary. W. R. Peltier combines subjects such as Isostasy and Geodesy with his study of Post-glacial rebound.
W. R. Peltier mainly investigates Climatology, Sea level, Mechanics, Oceanography and Turbulence. His studies deal with areas such as Albedo, Atmospheric sciences, Community Climate System Model and Ice sheet as well as Climatology. His work deals with themes such as Meltwater, Glacial period, Paleoclimatology, Ice-sheet dynamics and Ice-sheet model, which intersect with Ice sheet.
His work investigates the relationship between Sea level and topics such as Holocene that intersect with problems in Post-glacial rebound and Forebulge. His research integrates issues of Deglaciation, Mantle and Geodesy in his study of Post-glacial rebound. His Turbulence research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Stratification and Instability.
W. R. Peltier mostly deals with Climatology, Sea level, Post-glacial rebound, Ice sheet and Turbulence. W. R. Peltier interconnects Last Glacial Maximum, Glacial period, Ice age, Deep sea and Quaternary in the investigation of issues within Climatology. His work in Sea level addresses subjects such as Geodetic datum, which are connected to disciplines such as Gravitational field, Radiative forcing and Meltwater pulse 1A.
His Post-glacial rebound study incorporates themes from Oceanic basin, Geoid, Mantle and Holocene. His Ice sheet research focuses on Meltwater and how it relates to Tectonics. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Stratification and Shear flow.
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The Physical Science Basis
E Jansen;J Overpeck;KR Briffa;JC Duplessy.
(2007)
GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2) Model and GRACE
W.R. Peltier.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (2004)
An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677
N. J. Shackleton;A. Berger;W. R. Peltier.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh-earth Sciences (1990)
Ice Age Paleotopography
W. R. Peltier.
Science (1994)
Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from an extended Barbados sea level record
W.R. Peltier;R.G. Fairbanks.
Quaternary Science Reviews (2006)
Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes
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Journal of Climate (2006)
Ice‐3G: A new global model of Late Pleistocene deglaciation based upon geophysical predictions of post‐glacial relative sea level change
A. M. Tushingham;W. R. Peltier.
Journal of Geophysical Research (1991)
The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth
W. R. Peltier.
Reviews of Geophysics (1974)
Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE‐6G_C (VM5a) model
W. R. Peltier;D. F. Argus;R. Drummond.
Journal of Geophysical Research (2015)
Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: Implications for climate dynamics and solid‐Earth geophysics
W. R. Peltier.
Reviews of Geophysics (1998)
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