Dr. John Wilson's scientific work has contributed to: 1) the development of the "Lagrangian stochastic" theory of turbulent transport, now widely used in environmental science for describing spray and pollen transport and 2) the application of Lagrangian dispersion model to simplify the task of measuring the fluxes of trace gases. The initial restriction to circular sources was subsequently removed with the "backwards/inverse dispersion" approach ("bLS"), now used worldwide to quantify farm scale greenhouse- and nuisance gas emissions from agricultural sources. He also demonstrated the extent to which disturbed turbulent winds near shelterbelts, in forest clearings, on hills, etc., are amenable to description by fluid mechanics. He showed that the Reynold-averaged Navier-Stokes approach to turbulence is ambiguous and unsatisfactory, capable of being tuned for the simplest cases, but unreliable beyond that tuning. He has co-authored 66 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals, such as Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Atmospheric Environment, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and the Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Dr. Wilson is a Full Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where he teaches the fundamentals in atmospheric sciences (the atmospheric boundary layer, weather analyses and forecasting, micrometeorology, environmental instrumentation, atmospheric modelling, etc.). He contributed to training part of the next generation of agricultural meteorologists by directly supervising 11 graduate students and being a member of supervisory or examination committees for more than 60 graduate students. He has been very successful in obtaining funding to support his research programs.

His scientific contributions to the Agriculture and Forest Meteorology community are well recognized internationally and nationally. He is a member of the editorial boards of Boundary-Layer Meteorology, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, two cornerstone international Journals in our area. On the Canadian scene he is a member of two major grant selection committees (NSERC and CFCAS).

John Wilson receiving the award of Fellow of CSAFM from President Elizabeth Pattey.