Robert Magai, PhD

Company: AESRD
Position: Environmental Modeler
Section: Science, Research and Innovation Section, Clean Energy Policy Branch
Presentation: Prototyping a tool for integrating Regional CEMS data, information and quantifying effects!
Robert Magai is an Environmental Modeler in the Science, Research and Innovation Section of the Clean Energy Policy Branch in ESRD. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Missouri, where he also earned a masters degree in Remote Sensing and GIS.
Before joining the Oil Sands Environmental Management Division aka Clean Energy Branch, Robert was in the Northern Region as a Water quality modeler and GIS Scientist. Prior to joining AENV, he was a research scientist and lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing at Selkirk College Geospatial Research Center in Castlegar, BC and he also held a Senior Geospatial Database Manager position at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Forestry.
Previous employment experiences in the United States include working for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a Water Quality Modeler and GIS Scientist and a lecturer at Richland College in Dallas, Texas, teaching information technology courses.
When Robert is not nursing sports related injuries and otherwise, he likes to play squash. He is also an avid sports fan. To cap it all, he is the current chair of a “think-tank” group known as OACiS (Organization of Arm Chair Critics in Sports).