Donald Mackay, (born 30 October 1936) is a Canadian scientist and engineer specializing in

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. He was a member of the faculty of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the

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and the founding director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre at

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Trent is known for its Oxbridge college system and small class sizes.

. He has developed several multimedia fugacity models. Mackay has stressed that principles of

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also need to be adopted for chemical assessments, especially in a regulatory context. In 2004, he was invested as an Officer of the

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for having "greatly contributed to the quality and our stewardship of the global environment". In 2004, he was also invested into the

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for "his outstanding contributions to environmental science".The Order of Ontario 2003 Recipients
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