Keith C. Heidorn, PhD
- PO Box 1054
- Valemount, British Columbia
- Canada V0E 2Z0
- Phone (250) 566-4613
- email: see@islandnet.com
- main website: www.islandnet.com/~see
Keith C. Heidorn, PhD, has over thirty-five years of experience in meteorology, climatology, air quality assessment and education. Dr. Heidorn has specialized in the fields of air quality assessments, atmospheric dispersion modelling, micrometeorology, climatology and, most recently as an educator on weather-related issues.
For the past decade, Dr Heidorn has focused his attention on educating the public on weather, climate and other environmental issues. He is the author and producer of The Weather Doctor, a website designed to educate the public about the beauty and science of weather. He also was a contributing writer for four years to The Weather Notebook radio show produced at the Mt Washington Observatory in New Hampshire and carried across the United States. Dr Heidorn has taught Applied Climatology at the University of Victoria for the Geography Department.
Keith C. Heidorn's first book The BC Weather Book: From the Sunshine Coast to Storm Mountain was published by Fifth House in the Autumn of 2004. His second And now … the Weather was released in the July 2005.
Dr Heidorn has numerous publications in both the scientific and popular literature including: articles in Green Teacher, Sea Frontiers, Early Canadian Life, Nature Canada , Weatherwise andGentlemen, and materials for Greenpeace International's Our Radiant Planet, the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society, and the Global Change Program, Royal Society of Canada.
Dr Heidorn is a former member of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and served on the its School and Popular Education Committee. Dr Heidorn was also chair of the CMOS Consultant Accreditation Committee. He was a past member of the American Meteorological Society and former member of its Board on School and Popular Meteorological Education as well.
He has been the publisher and editor of The UVB Impacts Reporter and Living Gently Quarterly. Both of these had runs as hardcopy publications, and the latter still continues as a web site (see: www.islandnet.com/~see for current contents). His other websites are Nature's Song and Song of the Storm King.
Most recently as he enjoys semi-retirement, Keith has taken up painting and other graphic arts to express his views on the beauty of nature. His works season several of the articles on his websites and are collected in a Keith C. Heidorn's Art Gallery.
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