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*Note: AMS 10 was retired due to mining in the location. It has been replaced with AMS 16 which is 4km SE of the former AMS 10 site.

Dr. Kevin Percy

Dr. Kevin Percy is the Executive Director and Lead Scientist for the Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA).

Education and experience:

Dr. Percy’s 35 years experience in research and monitoring in the fields of air pollution and climate change effects informs WBEA’s current monitoring designs and practices. Prior to joining WBEA, Dr. Percy was Senior Scientist-Global Change with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canadian Forest Service.  He holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, England, MSc and BScF degrees from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada.

Until May 2009, Dr. Percy served as Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member of the world’s largest greenhouse gas-forest experiment. The Aspen FACE (Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) User Facility was located in Rhinelander, Wisconsin (http://aspenface.mtu.edu/). The Aspen FACE experiment was primarily supported by the US Department of Energy, Program for Ecosystem Research and comprised over 100 scientists from 10 countries. On April 7, 2009 Scientific American featured Aspen FACE as one of "Ten Important Atmospheric Science Experiments." (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=10-climate-experiments).

In recent years, Dr. Percy’s research has focused on developing alternative approaches for analysis of air quality -plant response relationships. This work has resulted in standards-based, exposure-response functions for application within an ambient air quality management context. Dr. Percy is the author of numerous scientific publications in leading journals and books. Among these are retrospective, as well asforward-looking “state of science” analyses at global and national scales.

Throughout his career, Dr Percy has collaborated with scientists in Canada and over 20 countries. Many of these collaborations are now providing expertise to WBEA and presenting forward looking solutions and innovations to WBEA’s current monitoring work.

Previous Appointments:

• Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change; International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
• Expert reviewer for Canada on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
• Federal Co-Chair, Vegetation Working Group, Canadian Multi-stakeholder NO_x/VOC Science Program
• Coordinator, IUFRO Research Group 7.01 “Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems”
• Federal Co-chair, Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment (CCME) Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants (LRTAP) Terrestrial Effects Research and Monitoring Coordinating Committee

Professional Affiliations:

• Air & Waste Management Association
• American Chemical Society

Five Most Relevant Publications:

• Clair, T.A., Burns, D., Perez, I.R., Blais, J., Percy, K. 2011. Ecosystems. pp. 139-230 in G.M. Hidy, J.R. Brook, K.L. Demerjian, L.T. Molina, W.T. Pennell, R.D. Scheffe (Eds.) Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Control Management. Springer Science and Business Media, New York. 553 pages.
• Percy, K.E., Nosal, M., Heilman, W., Dann, T., Karnosky, D.F. 2009. Standards-based ozone exposure-response functions that predict forest growth. pp. 269-293 in A. H. Legge (Ed.) Relating Atmospheric Source Apportionment to Vegetation Effects: Establishing Cause and Effect Relationships. Elsevier Environmental Science Series Vol. 9, Oxford, UK.
• K.E. Percy, M. Nosal, W. Heilman, T. Dann, , J. Sober, A. H. Legge, D.F. Karnosky 2007. New exposure-based metric approach for evaluating O₃ risk to North American aspen forests. Environmental Pollution 147: 554-566.
• Karnosky, D.F., Skelly, J.M., Percy, K.E., Chappelka, A.H.2007. Perspectives regarding 50 years of research on effects of tropospheric ozone air pollution on U.S. forests. Environmental Pollution 147: 489-506.
• Percy, K.E., Karnosky, D.F. 2007. Air quality in natural areas: Interface between the public, science and regulation. Environmental Pollution 149: 256-267.
• Percy, K.E. and Ferretti, M. 2004. Air pollution and forest health: Towards new monitoring concepts. Environmental Pollution 130: 113-126.