Rennie, Colin
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (British Columbia)
M.A.Sc. (British Columbia)
B.Sc. (Guelph)
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Web
http://by.genie.uottawa.ca/~crennie/index.html
Research Interests:
Water resources engineering
River engineering
Environmental hydraulics
Sediment transport, turbulence and aquatic habitat
Biography:
Colin Rennie (Ph.D., P.Eng.) is Associate Professor and Director of the Hydraulics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa. He is currently Meetings Group Leader for the Hydraulic Instrumentation Section of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Committee on Hydraulic Measurements and Experimentation, and a member of the Communications Committee of the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering. He is a member of ASCE, IAHR, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, and the American Geophysical Union.
Dr. Rennie began his career as a junior environmental engineer with government and consulting experience in hydrology, fish population and habitat assessment, mine reclamation, industrial wastewater treatment, air quality, and contaminated site remediation (1992-1996). He focused on river hydraulics and sediment transport as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia (1996-2002) with a Master’s project on scour in salmon spawning habitat, and a Ph.D. study of the use of an acoustic Doppler current profiler (aDcp) for measurement of bedload. His interest in acoustic techniques continued during a post-doctoral term at the Physical Oceanography Department of Dalhousie University (2002-2003) where he did field and laboratory calibrations of a novel acoustic Doppler bedload sensor.