marshall mccall
ryan, dan and i had this prof for environmental studies this past year, and i have to say, he was one really cool guy.
he convinced me to replace my incandescent bulbs, showed us what plastics we could recycle (and which we could not) and taught us that the planet can only support so many meat eaters. and that's just a few of his famous environmental tips.
so it is no surprise that i was pleased to find an article about him in the summer issue of york u magazine. its short, so i thought i would post it:
unsung heroes: great canadians you've never heard of
as a counterpoint to cbc's search for "the greatest canadian" last fall, victoria's times colonist invited readers to nominate truly great canadians of high achievement but low profile. it published hundreds of names including that of york astronomer marshall mccall, 51, and alumnus of the university of victoria (BSc '76). uvic's alumni association had given mccall a distinguished alumni award for his and a collaborator's discovery of two new galaxies and the identification of three of the five brightest galaxies in the northern sky during the 1990s. that early research is critical to mccall's current project - to create an atlas of the "local sheet", a vast pancake of galaxies in which the milky way resides.
using infared images taken at observatories around the world, he and york graduate students are mapping the arrangement of galaxies - mostly dwarfs - within 15 million light years of earth. mccall's research should bring us another step closer to understanding our own origins.
he convinced me to replace my incandescent bulbs, showed us what plastics we could recycle (and which we could not) and taught us that the planet can only support so many meat eaters. and that's just a few of his famous environmental tips.
so it is no surprise that i was pleased to find an article about him in the summer issue of york u magazine. its short, so i thought i would post it:
unsung heroes: great canadians you've never heard of
as a counterpoint to cbc's search for "the greatest canadian" last fall, victoria's times colonist invited readers to nominate truly great canadians of high achievement but low profile. it published hundreds of names including that of york astronomer marshall mccall, 51, and alumnus of the university of victoria (BSc '76). uvic's alumni association had given mccall a distinguished alumni award for his and a collaborator's discovery of two new galaxies and the identification of three of the five brightest galaxies in the northern sky during the 1990s. that early research is critical to mccall's current project - to create an atlas of the "local sheet", a vast pancake of galaxies in which the milky way resides.
using infared images taken at observatories around the world, he and york graduate students are mapping the arrangement of galaxies - mostly dwarfs - within 15 million light years of earth. mccall's research should bring us another step closer to understanding our own origins.
posted by jessalauren at 5:47 PM
2 Comments:
hail to the chief! just kidding ha ha
sounds like a really cool guy to have as a professor.
Patricia
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