Doug Degenstein

DOUG DEGENSTEIN

Inducted 2007 - Academics

• ​Doug is an associate professor of Physics and Engineering Physics at the U. of S., where he earned his PhD.

• His thesis involved aspects of a technique used to get ozone information from the Optical Spectograph and the InfaRed Imager System instrument (OSIRIS).

• He was awarded the U. of S. Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2002 recognizing enthusiasm, organization and fairness of evaluation in teaching.

• Doug has chaired and participated in several important committees:

  • Co-principal investigator of OSIRIS, the Canadian built content of ODIN, an International satellite project attempting to map both outer space and the earth's atmosphere

  • Chair of the Division of Aeronomy and Space Physics (DASP), Canadian Association

  • Coordinator of the "Third Annual Limb Scatter Workshop" in Montreal, 2006, which included scientists from Germany, U.S.A., Sweden, Finland and France

  • Presented a variety of papers related to the OSIRIS measurement and interpretations at American and European Geophysical Union meetings and at Quadrennial Ozone Symposiums

• ​​The work Doug has done with OSIRIS has helped to improve measurement and study of the phenomena of ozone depletion.