Norman T. O'Neill

Prix et distinctions

• (2020) Professeur émérite. Université de Sherbrooke.
• (2003) Prix de la recherché et da la création. Université de Sherbrooke.
• (1986) Attaché de recherche (Actions structurantes). Université de Sherbrooke.
• (1982) NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. NSERC.
• (1975) NSERC postgraduate Scholarship. NSERC.

Financement

• Subvention. Earth observing satellite, Climate change, extreme weather, aerosol, water vapour, cloud, radiative forcing, climate feedback, weather prediction, climate modelling. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). Alliance Grants - Advantage (subgrant from McGill U., PI Yi Huang). 210 000 $. (2025-2028).
• Subvention. Employing satellite and ground-based remote sensing (RS) and aerosol simulations to contextualize and analyze airborne PONEX measurements. Canadian Space Agency (Longueuil, Canada). ROHSSA. 90 000 $. (2025-2028).
• Subvention. Remote sensing of weak or poorly understood Arctic aerosols. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). NSERC Discovery Grant. 175 000 $. (2023-2028).
• Subvention. Aerosols, clouds and aerosol-cloud interaction (ACI) over the Artic: analysis using aerosol and ACI modelling in support of ground- and satellite-based measurements. Canadian Space Agency (Montreal, Canada). Earth System Science Data Analyses. 248 000 $. (2021-2024).
• Subvention. Analysis of remotely sensed, aerosol-cloud interaction over the Arctic. Canadian Space Agency (Longueuil, Canada). Earth System Science Data Analyses. 231 000 $. (2017-2020).

Publications

Articles

• Norm O'Neill. (2025). Remote-sensing detectability of airborne Arctic dust. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Liviu Ivănescu, Norman T. O'Neill. (2023). Multi-star calibration in starphotometry. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. DOI
• Seyed Ali Sayedain, Norman T. O'Neill, James King, Patrick L. Hayes, Daniel Bellamy, Richard Washington, Sebastian Engelstaedter, Andy Vicente-Luis, Jill Bachelder, Malo Bernhard. (2023). Detection and analysis of Lhù'ààn Mân' (Kluane Lake) dust plumes using passive and active ground-based remote sensing supported by physical surface measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. DOI
• Norman T. O'Neill, Keyvan Ranjbar, Liviu Ivănescu, Thomas F. Eck, Jeffrey S. Reid, David M. Giles, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Jai Prakash Chaubey. (2023). Relationship between the sub-micron fraction (SMF) and fine-mode fraction (FMF) in the context of AERONET retrievals. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. DOI
• Norm O'Neill. (2023). Aerosol optical and physical properties and comparisons of aged versus fresh smoke. Atmospheric Environment.
• Peng Xian, Jianglong Zhang, Norm T. O'Neill, Travis D. Toth, Blake Sorenson, Peter R. Colarco, Zak Kipling, Edward J. Hyer, James R. Campbell, Jeffrey S. Reid, Keyvan Ranjbar. (2022). Arctic spring and summertime aerosol optical depth baseline from long-term observations and model reanalyses – Part 1: Climatology and trend. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI
• Norm O'Neill. (2021). Remote sensing of a high-Arctic, local dust event over Lake Hazen (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada). Atmospheric Environment.
• Norm O'Neill. (2020). Climatological-scale analysis of intensive and semi-intensive aerosol parameters derived from AERONET Arctic retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research.
• Norm O'Neill. (2017). Thin ice clouds in the Arctic: Cloud optical depth and particle size retrieved from ground-based thermal infrared radiometry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Norm O'Neill. (2015). Synchronous polar winter starphotometry and lidar measurements at a High Arctic station. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• Norm O'Neill. (2012). Properties of Sarychev sulphate aerosols over the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research.
• Norm O'Neill. (2003). Spectral discrimination of coarse and fine mode optical depth. Journal of Geophysical Research.
• Norm O'Neill. (2001). A modified Angstrom coefficient for the characterization of sub-micron aerosols. Applied Optics.

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS

• TEL914 - Dépôt et soutenance de thèse. (2023, 2025). (30CR).

Activités professionnelles

• NASA Earth Sciences Division. Proposal reviewer (EVS Science Review Panel). Washington, District of Columbia, États-Unis. (2018).
• NSERC. Geosciences Evaluation Committee. Discovery Grant evaluations. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (2012-2015).
• NASA Earth Science. Proposal reviewer (Radiation Sciences Panel). Washington, District of Columbia, États-Unis. (2007).
• Poste d'invité. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Goddard Earth Sci. & Tech. Center. GEST invited researchers program. Baltimore, Maryland, États-Unis. (2004-2005).
• Poste d'invité. Naval Research Laboratory. Invited research. Monterey, California, États-Unis. (2003).
• Poste d'invité. NRC (US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)). GSFC NASA. Senior Associateship. Washington, DC, États-Unis. (1998-1999).
• Canadian Remote Sensing Society. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. Editor in Chief. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (1997-2000).