{"id":167,"date":"2016-05-30T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:07:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/?page_id=167","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/files\/2016\/08\/Greg_summer2016.jpg\" alt=\"Greg_summer2016\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/files\/2016\/08\/Greg_summer2016.jpg 636w, https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/files\/2016\/08\/Greg_summer2016-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Gregory G. Arkos<br><\/strong>Office: Building 315, Room 209<br>Phone: (250) 753-3245 or MS Teams<br>Email:\u00a0<a title=\"mailto:gregory.arkos@viu.ca?subject=** Website enquiry **\" href=\"mailto:gregory.arkos@viu.ca?subject=**%20Website%20enquiry%20**\">gregory.arkos@viu.ca<\/a><br>Web:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/web.viu.ca\/arkosg\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/\">http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Sidebar_Body wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"Bold\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BSc Hons (geophysics, U of Manitoba)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PhD (space physics, UBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Sidebar_Body wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2 wp-block-paragraph\">As a child, my parents encouraged my intense curiosity about all things, scientific and otherwise.\u00a0 That inquisitiveness has never abated and led to an undergraduate degree in geophysics at the University of Manitoba and a doctorate in space physics at UBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2 wp-block-paragraph\">While a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Calgary I was given the opportunity to teach a number of undergraduate physics courses, and it was those positive experiences which fostered my interest in a teaching career. \u00a0Sessional work in physics, astronomy &amp; mathematics followed at Mount Royal College in Calgary, which eventually lead to a full-time faculty position in the Department of Physics, Engineering &amp; Astronomy here at Vancouver Island University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_2 wp-block-paragraph\">I have enjoyed living and teaching here, and have appreciated the opportunities that a small university like VIU offers to get to know (and help) students as they learn about our world and the fascinating universe in which we reside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gregory G. ArkosOffice: Building 315, Room 209Phone: (250) 753-3245 or MS TeamsEmail:\u00a0gregory.arkos@viu.caWeb:\u00a0http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/ Education Biography As a child, my parents encouraged my intense curiosity about all things, scientific and otherwise.\u00a0 That inquisitiveness has never abated and led to an undergraduate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/?page_id=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/arkosg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}