David J. Thomson

Who is David J. Thomson?

David J. Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing. He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, a Fellow of the IEEE and a Chartered Statistician. He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union, and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship. In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

He is best known for creation of the multitaper method of spectral estimation, first published in complete form in 1982 in a special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE . He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics as broad as space physics, climatology and paleoclimatology, statistics, and global warming. It was his 1995 paper that first conclusively showed the relationship between atmospheric CO₂ and global temperature .