Owen Brian Toon

Owen Brian Toon is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He leads a research group that studies aerosols and cloud physics and investigates climate and atmospheric chemistry on Earth and other planetary bodies. His honors include NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for studies of the climates of Earth and the planets and of the ozone hole; the American Physical Society’s Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest; United Nations Environmental Program recognition for contributions to the Nobel Peace Prize winning IPCC reports; the American Geophysical Union’s Roger Revelle Medal; and the American Meteorological Society’s Carl-Gustaf Rossby Medal “for fundamental contributions toward understanding the role of clouds and aerosols in the climates of Earth and other planets.”