High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David William Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS (born August 3, 1940) is an American/Canadian limnologist. He holds the Killam Memorial Chair and is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is notable for research which led to the banning of harmful phosphates in detergents, and for activism to curb acid rain..