About

Prof Wood was born in 1930 and was awarded his PhD in 1966. Ian Wood is presently an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury, a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, and is one of only three civil engineers currently Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Ian Wood has over 70 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and he has contributed to and edited two texts: Air Entrainment in Free-Surface Flows – Hydraulic Structures Design Manual, 1991, Balkema, Netherlands (an IAHR Hydraulic Structures Design Manual); Ocean Disposal of Wastewater, Vol. 8 – Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering Singapore, 1993. Ian has given many invited lectures, including the ASCE Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Lecture in Baltimore (August 1992) and Keynote Addresses at the Environmental Hydraulics Conference in 2004 and at the 1985 IAHR Congress. Prof. Wood has been engaged as a Consultant by various firms in New Zealand and overseas. Typical examples dealt with include model studies connected with dam spillways, model studies of a harbor and a modification of a surge tank penstock complex, the review of a mobile bed study of a river mouth, a thermal model for a power station in Bangkok, the analysis and design of ocean and river outfalls, and design/ peer review for various ocean outfalls, including Sydney, Christchurch, Waimakiriri and Dunedin. He has been an Expert Witness on a number of occasions and on several Water Rights Tribunals. Ian Wood is a teacher of the highest calibre who has dedicated his career to the support of students and young researchers. His mentees span the globe from California to Europe to Australasia. Many IAHR colleagues have benefited from his advice and time, particularly regarding integration of research and hydraulic engineering. Ian Wood taught a range of water related courses at the University of Canterbury for 23 years from 1971 until his retirement in 1993. He had a major influence on hundreds of practicing civil engineers both in New Zealand and overseas. His reputation drew both local and international students to undertake postgraduate research under his supervision and these students invariably had high praise for his mentoring skills. In recent years, Ian Wood has given seminars at the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, The University of New York at Buffalo, Asian Institute of Technology, Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripp’s Oceanographic Institution and the Civil Engineering Department of University of Queensland. Professor Ian Wood has been a long-standing member of IAHR and of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hydraulic Research. He was an invited keynote lecturer at many conferences including the 21st IAHR Biennial Congress (1985, Melbourne). He edited and co-authored the IAHR Hydraulic Structures Design Manual on 'Air Entrainment in Free-Surface Flows' (1991), and the book 'Ocean Disposal of Wastewater' in the Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Both are basic design handbooks used by the engineering community worldwide.

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