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Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Professor of Engineering
1-603-646-3248
Benoit.Cushman.Roisin@Dartmouth.edu

Education

  • B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Liège (Belgium) 1978
  • Ph.D., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Florida State University 1980

Research Interests

Environmental transport processes; environmental fluid mechanics; industrial ecology; sustainable design.

Current Research Projects

Teaching, 2008-2010

Selected Publications

  • Cushman-Roisin, B., 1994: Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Prentice Hall.

  • Cushman-Roisin, B., M. Gacie, P.-M. Poulain, and A. Artegiani, 2001:
    Physical Oceanography of the Adriatic Sea: Past Present, and Future. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Esenkov, O. E., and B. Cushman-Roisin, 1999: "Modeling of two-layer eddies and coastal flows with a particle method," J. Geophys. Res, 104, 10959-10980.

  • Cushman-Roisin, B., and V. Malacic, 1997: "Bottom Ekman pumping with stress-dependent eddy viscosity," J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1967-1975.

  • Cushman-Roisin, B., N.J. Rice, and M.A. Moldaver, 2000: "A simulation tool for Industrial Ecology," J. Industrial Ecology 3, 131-144.

  • Cushman-Roisin, B., and A. D. Jenkins, 2006: "On a non-local parameterization for shear turbulence and the uniqueness of its solutions," Boundary-Layer Meterorol., 118, 69-82.

Professional Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief (and Founding Editor), Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2000-present.

  • Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

  • Co-organizer and co-convener of "Modelling of Oceanic Vortices" colloquium, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

In the News

  • VOX of Dartmouth
    April 3, 2006
    "Green Houses"
    By Genevieve Haas

  • Boston Globe
    February 2, 2005
    "Group: Buddhist's Center's Sewage Would Pollute"

  • Valley News
    January 26, 2005
    "Buddhist Proposal Draws Fire: $5 Million Plan Calls for Building Center With Dormitory, Hall"
    By Kristen Fountain