University of Manitoba
Most
Significant Contributions
Professor
Allan
D. Woodbury, P.Eng.
- Our hydrogeology program in Civil Engineering has been listed within the top one hundred hydrogeology programs out of four hundred in North America by the National Ground Water Association. Eight other universities in Canada have this distinction and we are pleased to be part of this group. The entire list has been posted to the NGWA web site.
- Congratulations
to
U
of
M - Ph.D. candidate Alireza Hejazi for winner of an outstanding
poster presentation award at the recent- annual Canadian Water
Network conference. The paper was titled
"Modeling Snow Depth, Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture and Nitrate
Transport in a Soil Groundwater-Atmosphere System Using the Land
Surface Scheme SABAE-HW"
- Preprint of paper by Hejazi, A. and
A.D.
Woodbury, "Evaluation of SABAE-HW model in simulating snow depth, soil
temperature, and soil moisture within the BOREAS field site,
Saskatchewan", In Press,
Atmosphere-Ocean,
2011.
Reprint "Occams' razor viewpoint on the lead-lag controversy in Global warming", The Leading Edge, 2009. - Recent paper by Ferguson and Woodbury on the Urban Heat Island (2008)
- Edwards Aquifer full-Bayesian inversion (Painter et al., 2007)
- Featured paper "A Bayes Tour of Inversion: A Tutorial", by Ulrych, Sacchi and Woodbury, Geophysics (2001)
Book Chapter (new)
Presentations
- Climate
change
assessment,
Assiniboine
Delta
Aquifer,
Invited
presentations,
GSA
(2005)
- EGU Presentation on northern borehole climatology (2008)
- Drought
Research Initiative 2009 worshop, Drought
Prediction
of
Aquifers
under
Climate
Change
Mailing
Address:
Department
of
Civil
Engineering
University of Manitoba
E1-368A Engineering Building
15 Gillson Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3T 5V6
e-mail:
woodbur@cc.umanitoba.ca
Office:
E1-314
Engineering
Bldg.
Phone:
(204) 474-9137
Fax:
(204) 474-7513
Academic and Professional Interests
Dr. Allan Woodbury, P.Eng. is a senior Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Water Resources/Geotechnical Divisions, at the University of Manitoba. Since 1987, Dr. Woodbury has taught undergraduate and graduate water resources engineering and groundwater hydrogeology at McGill University and the University of Manitoba. Since that time, he has established a productive research program in hydrogeology. Publications have been targeted to Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysics, Ground Water, Advances In Water Resources and other leading-edge publications (internationally) in the groundwater and earth sciences fields. All of the above journals have high journal impact factors, and many of these works have been widely cited. Woodbury has an extensive publication record in pioneering probabilistic methods, incorporating temperature measurements in hydrologic analysis, aquifer characterization, and the solution of ill-posed problems. He has had numerous invitations for speaking at conferences and workshops. These include the American Geophysical Union, the National Ground Water Association and the Geological Society of America, as well as other universities and private organizations.
Professor Woodbury has served as an advisor to various governments, utilities, engineering companies and organizations such as AECL. Currently, he is a specialist consultant to the Saskatchewan Government on potash and uranium tailings contamination and formerly to the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analysis in San Antonio, Texas, for work at the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. The focus of Dr. Woodbury's professional efforts is the role of groundwater in geotechnical, mining, environmental and water supply issues, particularly in a regulatory framework. These efforts involve investigations, assessment of remediation methods for contaminated waters and soils, water supply quality and quantity, engineering design, and the development and application of regulatory guidelines.
Dr. Woodbury was awarded the Winnipeg Rh society Rh award in 1992 for research excellence the the applied sciences and the CAUT Dedicated Service Award in 2005.
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