Current Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group members
Patricia Semcesen
PhD Student – Microplastics in the Great Lakes
Timelapse Movie of bioturbation in Tobermory
Yulong Kaui
PhD student – Oxygen dynamics in stratified lakes
Former Group members
George Lu, CGCS Summer fellow 2020
Now at: PhD student Lamont Doherty earth Observatory, Columbia University – https://lamont.columbia.edu/
Dr. Bryan Flood
PhD student, Environmental Science-completed 2021
PhD Project – “Internal waves in Kempenfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe”.
Video Abstract – https://youtu.be/z80FM4OY_SI
Now at: Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority – https://mvc.on.ca/
Dr. Bernard Yang – Research website
PhD project – Water circulation under lake Ice.
Movie of Lake Simcoe winter field work
Now at: University of Victoria – https://www.uvic.ca/science/seos/index.php
Dr. Lakshika Girihagama
Former Post-doctoral fellow – “Water circulation in Georgian Bay”.
Now at National Research Council in Ottawa.
website = https://lakshikagirihagama.github.io/index.html
Dr Tej Heer
Former PhD student
Now at Evidence for Democracy
PhD Project – “Turbulence influences transport rates of fish eggs in rivers.”
Co-supervised with Prof Nick Mandrak
Movie of fish egg dynamics in a river
Kevin Li
Research Assistant
Dr. Shahrzad Davarpanah Jazi
Former PhD student, Environmental Science
PhD Project – “Dynamics of sediment laden gravity currents”.
Movie of Double-Diffusive convection
Movie of Coriolis influenced gravity currents.
Aqsa Arif
Masters student – Water circulation near Toronto Islands
Elvira Koolen
Visiting Masters student from TU/Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Movies of experiments on convective sedimentation
Dr. Mijanur Chowdhury
Former Post-Doctoral Fellow
Now at Minnow Environmental http://www.minnow.ca/
Projects: – “Internal wave dynamics in Lake Simcoe and Lake Ontario”
Personal website = http://individual.utoronto.ca/chymijan/
Dr. Bogdan Hlevca
Former Post-doc and PhD student, Environmental Sciences
Now at the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-environment-and-climate-change
PhD Project – “Exchange flows in shallow coastal wetlands”
Personal website =http://individual.utoronto.ca/bhlevca/
Dr. Patricia Pernica
Former PhD Student, Physics Department
Now at Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
PhD thesis – Implications of Periodic Weak Thermal Stratification in the Epilimnion of Lake Opeongo
Dr. Remo Cossu
Former Earth Sciences PhD student and Post-Doctoral Fellow
Now Lecturer at School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
PhD thesis – “The Influence of Coriolis Forces on Flow Structures of Channelized Large-scale Turbidity Currents and their Depositional Patterns “
Dr. Yajun Sun
Former PhD Student, Geography Department
Now at Fudan University, Shanghai, China
PhD thesis – ‘Mixing Patterns of Discharged Ballast Water and the Implications for Biological Invasions in the Huron-Erie Corridor of the Great Lakes’
Dr. Melissa Coman
Former CGCS Post-Doctoral fellow
Project – “Internal wave dynamics of Lake Opeongo”
Lisa Sealock
Former Masters Student, UTSC Masters of Environmental Science
Masters Project – “Residence timescales and the underlying hydrodynamic processes in Frenchman’s Bay, a Lake Ontario coastal embayment“
Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada
Harry Zheng
Former Undergraduate Student UTSC
Parthiban Nadarajah
Former NSERC USRA Undergraduate Student UTSC
Project – “The intrusion depth of density currents flowing into stratified water bodies.”
Peter Ng
Former Undergraduate Student UTSC
Project – “Circulation patterns in the fall and winter in Frenchman’s Bay”