Neil Thomson
Professor
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
"Dr. Neil R. Thomson, is working as a Professor & Chair in University of Waterloo. He is the Member of American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineering, National Ground Water Association, Professional Engineers of Ontario. Dr. Thomson teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses including: Fluid Mechanics, Water Quality Engineering, Advanced Mathematics, Hydrology, Environmental Chemistry, Contaminant Transport, Finite Element Methods, Numerical Methods for Environmental Applications, and Water Quality Management. In 1999 he was awarded the Sir Sanford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award for recognition of an exemplary record of outstanding teaching, concern for students and a commitment to the development and enrichment of engineering education at Waterloo. In 2005 and 2014 he received an Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Waterloo for outstanding performance in teaching and scholarship. In 2008 he was awarded the Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award. He has provided expert technical assistance to numerous consulting firms on topics that include: conceptual groundwater model development; groundwater flow and fate analysis; model selection, development, calibration and sensitivity; and remedial alternative selection and system design. Dr. Thomson is a featured lecturer in short courses in North America, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico."
Research Interest
Environmental fate of contaminants in porous and fractured subsurface systems Development and assessment of soil and groundwater remediation technologies Development and application of simulation models
Publications
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Lambert JM, Yang T, Thomson NR, Barker JF. Pulsed biosparging of a residual fuel source emplaced at CFB Borden. InProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy 2010 (Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 5).
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Walters DA, Cleveland JP, Thomson NH, Hansma PK, Wendman MA, Gurley G, Elings V. Short cantilevers for atomic force microscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 1996 Oct;67(10):3583-90.
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Salvetat JP, Bonard JM, Thomson NH, Kulik AJ, Forro L, Benoit W, Zuppiroli L. Mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics A. 1999 Sep 1;69(3):255-60.
