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