Fluvial Processes (ePub)

Ana Maria Ferreira da Silva obtained her first degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Oporto, Portugal, in 1985. For the next three years she worked as a Research Officer for the Hydraulics Division of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), Lisbon, Portugal. She moved to Canada in 1989, where she obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees also in Civil Engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. She subsequently held the positions of Research Engineer at the Hydraulics Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, until 1997, and Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada, until 2000. She joined Queen's University at Kingston in 2000 as an Associate Professor, and is currently a Full Professor at the same university. Her expertise includes sediment transport, fluvial hydraulics, and river morphology and morphodynamics. Prof. da Silva authored and co-authored over 100 journal and conference papers and 3 book chapters, covering primarily aspects of large-scale river turbulence, fluvial hydraulics and large-scale river morphodynamics. She formerly was an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Chair of the IAHR Fluvial Hydraulics Committee. She presently is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Environmental Fluid Mechanics. She received the IAHR Arthur Thomas Ippen Award in 2005, and the CSCE Camille A. Dagenais Award in 2013. Prof. da Silva has also distinguished herself as an educator, both at graduate and undergraduate levels, and is the recipient of three teaching awards at Queen's University.

M. Selim Yalin obtained his Civil Engineering Diploma in 1950 and his Ph.D. degree in 1953, both from the Technical University of Istanbul. After completing his military service in Turkey, he moved to