Short Biography
Schindler began his career as an assistant
professor at Trent University (1966-1968).
In 1968, he was the founding director of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA)
in northwestern Ontario, where ecosystem-scale experiments with a variety of
pollutants and long-term monitoring of lakes and streams have taken place for
over 40 years. He has been the “Killam
Memorial Chair and Professor of Ecology” at the University of Alberta since
1989. Schindler’s science aims to
underpin environmental policy and has earned him numerous national and
international awards, including the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, the First
Stockholm Water Prize, the Volvo Environmental Prize and the Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement.
