Susan J Gaskin

Biography

Professor Gaskin joined McGill in 1997, adding to the environmental engineering expertise in the Department. Environmental hydraulics and water resources is her specialty. Her teaching includes open channel flow, hydraulics, river engineering and water sustainability. Her research is in the general area of environmental fluid mechanics and water resources management. Specifically looking at topics in experimental fluid mechanics: modeling of jets and plumes, river engineering, sediment transport in surface waters, and in water resources management: sustainable water supply management and basin wide hydrologic modeling.

Research Interest

1.Experimental investigations of environmental hydraulics problems (turbulent jets and mixing) using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and particle image velocity (PIV) 2.Experimental environmental hydraulics 3.Numerical and physical modeling of hydraulic structures Numerical and physical modeling of hydraulic structures 4.Habitat restoration and sediment transport in rivers Habitat restoration and sediment transport in rivers 5.Water resources: sustainable water supply management Water resources (with funding from NSERC, FQRNT, CFI and, municipal and industrial collaborators)