Professor Russell’s ground-breaking applied science and engineering research has made profound impacts on air quality policies. His work is featured in multiple US National Academy reports. His key scientific advances set the foundation for air quality policies and modeling approaches now adopted globally. His award-winning research relates pollutants and health that has led to our important understanding of clean air in health. Policies driven by his work have directly benefited the world including Canada from the adoption of effective controls that decreases locally-generated and long range transport of pollutants. He is a renown educator who trains environmental talents including Canadian.