Reed KirkpatrickEstablished in 1999, I have been providing the highest quality writing, 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.


Many years of volunteer work with: UNICEF, SPCA, Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM), Friends of the Earth, Kinsmen, Cool Aid Society, the James Bay Beacon and James Bay Sustainability Commons.


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.