Established in 1999, I have been providing the highest quality environmental research and editing services to a variety of clients including the BC Government, Envirotechneering, Environment Canada, the James Bay Beacon, JamesBay.org, African Community Project, and Cool Aid Society:
Recent co-author of Detrital ooids of Holocene age in glaciomarine Champlain Sea sediments, author of several climate change research papers for Environment Canada, and numerous fact sheets, published articles and essays;
Significant field experience has included High Arctic radiosonde and ozonesonde flights, surface weather observations at major airports, radiation surveys and spectroscopy research at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, groundtruthing Russian MK-4 satellite imagery in southern Ontario and New York State, and biophysical inventories of local creeks in North Vancouver, BC.
Most recently, I provided substantive editing, indexing, fact checking, and research for Sudden Cold, an investigation into an intriguing climate interval that occurred after the most recent ice age. The climate, which had been warming dramatically, suddenly cooled to an interval of near-glacial cold. Known as the Younger Dryas, this period lasted for well over 1,000 years. The most widely held theory favours that the Younger Dryas was caused by the slowing or cessation of the North Atlantic ocean circulation. However, it is becoming evident that this hypothesis fails to explain many features of the Younger Dryas. Climatologist and author Rod Chilton examines the many shortcomings of the ocean circulation hypothesis, and in its place presents an exciting alternative explanation.
A member in good standing of the Editors’ Association of Canada, I am currently working on The Long Way Home, author Les MacNeill’s second book describing his gripping sailing adventure from Victoria BC, to New Zealand.
I should also mention that I am comfortable using a wide variety of style guides including: APA, Chicago, MLA, AGU, Journal (Nature and Science), in-house and custom.
Reed Kirkpatrick
203 – 465 Niagara Street
Victoria, BC
V8V 1G9
250.388.4784
