Barrie Bonsal has a position as a Research Scientist and an Assistant Professor, currently at the Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. He holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. His expertise is observed trends and variability in the Canadian climate, historical climate data, Canadian Prairie dry spells and droughts, synoptic climatology, and climate change. He has 92 publications with 3804 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, 24 November 2023) in these areas.