Faculty of Science
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3540

Bernie Boudreau 

FoS Killam Professor (to '14)
Oceanography

Education

  • PhD - Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
  • MPhil - Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
  • MS - Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
  • MS - Oceanography, Texas A&M University
  • BSc - Geology, University of New Brunswick

 Awards and Honours

  • Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (1993-2002)
  • Associate Editor, Limnology and Oceanography (1993-1999)
  • Special Issue Co-Editor, American Journal of Science (Berner Volume)
    Editorial Advisory Board, Member, Computers and Geoscience (1999-)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1994-95
  • F. Mosey Visiting Scholar, University of Western Australia, June 2002

Professional Experience:

 

            Geologist, Imperial Oil Ltd (ESSO), Calgary, Alberta, 5 months in 1975

            Research Assistant, Dept. Oceanography, Texas A&M Univ., 1975-1978

            Research Assistant, Dept. Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univ., 1978-1984

            Postdoctoral Fellow, Geol. Survey Canada, Bedford Inst. Oceanography, 1984-1986

            NSERC University Research Fellow, Dept. Oceanography, University of British

                                                            Columbia, 1986-1988

            Assist. Professor, Dept. Oceanography, Dalhousie University, 1988-1992

            Assoc. Professor, Dept. Oceanography, Dalhousie University, 1992-2001

            University Chair in Geological Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth

                                                            Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, 2000-2001

            Professor, Dept. Oceanography, Dalhousie University, July 2002-present

            Chair, Dept. Oceanography, Dalhousie University, July 2002-July 2008

            Faculty of Science Killam Professor, Dalhousie University, 2009-2014

 

Memberships:

 

American Geophysical Union, The Geochemical Society, American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, International Association for Mathematical Geology.

 

Editorships:

 

Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (1993-2002)

Associate Editor, Limnology & Oceanography (1993-1999)

Co-Editor Pro-Tem, American Journal of Science for the “Berner” Volume 1999-2000

Editorial Advisory Board, Member, Computers & Geoscience (1999-present)

Associate Editor, Limnology & Oceanography: Fluids & Environments (2009)-present

Refereed Publications: 83; Authored 1 book and edited 1 book

email:  Bernie.Boudreau@dal.ca

Web:
http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Boudreau_Bernard_P.html

 

 

 

 

    

Research Interests

  • Modelling of benthic processes and diagenesis
  • Sediment-water exchange and boundary layer processes
  • Mass transfer and reaction in porous media and in aqueous environments in general

  • Bioturbation and irrigation
  • Compaction and resuspension of sediments
  • Bubble formation and movement in sediments
  • Mathematical methods for the solution of reaction-transport equations