Area of Study / Keywords

Water Resources Engineering

About

Education

• Ph.D. in Oceanographic Engineering, The Joint Program with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1986-1992
• M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1983-1984
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1979-1983

Professional Experience

• 07/02 - present, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
• 09/99-06/02, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
• 07/98-07/99, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington
• 06/92-06/97, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• 01/92-05/92, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 09/86-12/91, Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 03/85-08/86, Construction Engineer, Chevron Canada Resources Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

Professional Affiliations

• Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Geophysical Union
• Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
• International Association of Hydraulic Research

Research

Research Interests

My general research interests include: air-sea interactions, environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulics of ice covered rivers. My specific interests are in: frazil ice detection, infrared remote sensing of the ocean surface, air-water gas transfer, wave breaking, limnology, wind wave mechanics, air entrainment, and hydraulics.

Research currently in progress

• Studying the flow around fish habitat structures
• Developing a technique to detect frazil ice particles using an instrument called the Shallow Water Ice Profiling System
• Investigating the hydraulics of ice-covered rivers
• Studying strudel scour that is caused by drainage of spring flood waters through holes in the surface of nearshore ice in the Mackenzie River delta
• Studying of the fluid mechanics of breaking wind waves
• Studying mixing in water treatment reactors