Tsoi Yip: retired Director of Products and Services Development

Tsoi-Ching Yip worked with Environment and Climate Change Canada for over 35 years, before retiring from her position as Director of Products and Services Development for the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). Tsoi has worked in a number of capacities over the span of her career, continually expanding her love and knowledge of weather research and technology.

Tsoi’s passion for weather began at a young age, when as a child in Hong Kong she witnessed a category-2 typhoon. This experience sparked her desire to become a meteorologist, so she could learn how extreme weather is formed and help inform others.

Joining the MSC in 1979, Tsoi quickly grew familiar with technology like weather satellite imageries, as well as the management of major projects, people and resources. Equipped with this knowledge and experience, Tsoi occupied various positions within the Atmospheric Monitoring & Water Survey Directorate. Tsoi was involved in the planning of the Doppler Radar Network, and helped to build the first Canadian Lightning Detection Network, among countless other major accomplishments. One of Tsoi’s favourite memories with ECCC was when she led the Essential Federal Service Project on environmental safety and security support for the 2015 Pan Am games in Toronto.

Currently enjoying retirement, Tsoi is happy to have the opportunity to further her contributions to the MSC as a volunteer, by helping in the discovery of weather data and historical information pre-dating 1849.

To learn more about Tsoi-Ching Yip’s work, please visit: Modernizing Canada’s weather-radar network - Canada.ca.

Here are a few interesting facts about Tsoi:

• What is your favourite game or sport to watch and play? Tai Chi.
• What are your hobbies? Chinese brush painting.
• Where do you see yourself in ten years? Still enjoying retirement life.