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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; energy efficiency

Current Research Projects

Environmental fluid mechanics

Teaching

ENGS 37: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
ENGS 43: Environmental Transport and Fate
ENGS 44: Sustainable Design
ENGS 150: Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
ENGS 151: Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Selected Publications

Cushman-Roisin, B., 2008: "Beyond eddy diffusivity: An alternative model for turbulent dispersion," Env. Fluid Mech., 8, 543-549.
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.
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.
Cushman-Roisin, B., N.J. Rice, and M.A. Moldaver, 2000: "A simulation tool for Industrial Ecology," J. Industrial Ecology 3, 131-144.
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., 1994: Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Prentice Hall.

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

News

Dartmouth Engineering Professors Discuss Promising Technologies for the Environment
April 15, 2013
Rev 7: The World’s First Removable, Biodegradable Gum?
The Huffington Post
October 15, 2011
How Green Is My Wintergreen?
Slate
April 19, 2011
Exhibit champions green design
The Dartmouth
January 26, 2010
Green Houses
VOX of Dartmouth
April 3, 2006

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine

Publications: Faculty Books
Winter 2012
Classroom: Sustainable Communities
Summer 2008
Investiture: Class of 2008
Summer 2008
Classroom: Industrial Ecology
Spring/Summer 2007