William Perrie received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1973, and the Ph.D. degree in meteorology and oceanography from Masschussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1979. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Oceanography and Mathematics with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA. Currently, he is a Senior Scientist with Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, and an Adjunct Professor with Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. His research interests are modeling of ocean waves, air–sea fluxes, coupled atmosphere–ocean interactions, impacts of climate change on these variables,and field measurements, via remote sensing and in situ, of winds, waves, and currents.