Course Presenters

Hubert Chanson is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, where he has been since 1990, having previously enjoyed an industrial career for six years. His main field of expertise is environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering, both in terms of theoretical fundamentals, physical and numerical modelling. He leads a group of 5-10 researchers, largely targeting flows around hydraulic structures, two-phase (gas-liquid and solid-liquid) free-surface flows, turbulence in steady and unsteady open channel flows, using computation, lab-scale experiments, field work and analysis. He has published over 850 peer reviewed publications. He serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, Coastal Engineering Journal and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, the latter of which he is currently a senior Editor. He chairs the Organisation of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference in Brisbane, Australia to be held on 6-10 December 2020.

Dr. Xianqian (Sophia) Leng is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include experimental investigations of unsteady rapidly-varied open channel flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of breaking waves, bores and positive surges, field investigations of tidal bores, and hydraulic design of fish-friendly culverts. Xinqian graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honour and PhD in Civil Engineering. She authored/co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications, including 18 international journal papers and 13 conference proceedings. Her works have been cited for 150 times according to Google Scholar, and the paper “Bores and Hydraulic Jumps. Environmental and Geophysical Applications” has won 2018 ICE Publishing Award Baker Medal. Xinqian is actively involved in international collaborations with overseas research institutions such as the University of Bordeaux (France) and Zhejiang Institution of Hydraulics and Estuary (China), as well as inter-disciplinary cooperation with industrial partners e.g. the New South Wales Department of Fisheries (Australia).

For further details, please contact:

Selina Weller Engagement and Communications Officer School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland s.weller@uq.edu.au | (07) 3443 1357 | www.eait.uq.edu.au/fish-culvert

Hydraulic Design of Fish-Friendly Standard Box CulvertContinuing Professional Development Course, 3-4 June 2019 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland

Course Presenters

Dr. Blake P. Tullis is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University (USA) and received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan (1977). He has conducted research and testing at the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) for the past 21 years in the areas of spillways hydraulics, culverts, fish passage, and erosion control. A significant applied research focus has been the hydraulic performance and characteristics of nonlinear weirs (e.g., labyrinth and piano key weirs). Dr. Tullis has also studied the hydraulic characteristics and fish response to “fish-friendly” culvert designs. A National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP 734) provided hydraulic design data for “bottomless” or “buried-invert” culverts, which are designed to provide a streambed-type culvert invert consistent with the adjacent upstream and downstream reaches with respect to width, composition, and scour/aggregation characteristics in support of aquatic species movement. Another related laboratory study evaluated the ability of fish (brown trout) to pass through typical prototype-scale circular culvert pipe with and without baffles under open channel flow conditions for a range of culvert slopes and discharges.

Dr. Tullis has conducted over 30 laboratory-scale physical model studies in support of domestic and international new dam construction and dam rehabilitation, pump intake design, and fish screen design. He was the 2018 recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Hydraulics Structures Metal, and the 2016 recipient of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) Terry L. Hampton Hydraulic Structures Medal. He teaches fluid mechanics, pipeline design, and hydraulic structure design courses.

For further details, please contact:

Selina Weller Engagement and Communications Officer School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland s.weller@uq.edu.au | (07) 3443 1357 | www.eait.uq.edu.au/fish-culvert

Hydraulic Design of Fish-Friendly Standard Box CulvertContinuing Professional Development Course, 3-4 June 2019 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland