James T. Kirby, Jr., Ph.D.

Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Marine Studies

Center for Applied Coastal Research
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716

Phone: (302) 831-2438
Fax: (302) 831-1228
Email: kirby@udel.edu

Personal

• Nationality: U.S.
• Date of Birth: December 25, 1952
• Marital Status: Married, three children

Education

• University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

  Ph.D., Applied Sciences (Civil Engineering), 1983

• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

  Sc.B.(magna cum laude), Environmental Engineering, 1975

  Sc.M., Engineering Mechanics, 1976

Professional Experience

• Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, 2003-present.

• Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 1994-2002.

• Professor of Marine Studies (joint appointment), College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, 1994-present.

• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 1989-1994. Joint appointment in College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, as Associate Professor of Oceanography, 1989-1994.

• Associate Professor, Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Department, University of Florida, 1988.

• Assistant Professor, Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Department, University of Florida, 1984-1988.

• Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1983-1984.

• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 1979-1983.

• Principle Research Engineer, Alden Research Laboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1979.

• Research Engineer, Alden Research Laboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1977-1979.

Technical Societies

• American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division.
    • Member, Organizing committee, Coastal Hydrodynamics '87, Newark, June 1987.
    • Member, Publications Committee, Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Division, 1987-Present.
    • Assistant Editor, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 1994 - 1996.
    • Editor, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 1996 - 2000.
    • Member, Technical committee, Waves '01, San Francisco September 2001.
  • Engineering Mechanics Division
    • Member, Fluids Committee, 1991-present.
    • Vice-Chairman, Fluids Committee, 1993-1994.
    • Chairman, Fluids Committee, 1994 - 1996.
    • Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 1994 - 1996.
    • Organizer, Wave Hydrodynamics sessions, Joint SES-ASME-ASCE Meeting, Charlottesville, June 1993.
    • Organizer, session on Breaking Waves and Turbulence, 10th Engineering Mechanics Division Specialty Conference, Boulder, May 1995.
    • Local and Technical Organizing Committees, Engineering Mechanics Division Specialty Conference, Newark, June 2004.
• American Geophysical Union
  • Organizer, Nearshore Hydrodynamics sessions, AGU Fall Meeting, December 1992.
  • Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 2003-
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Prizes and Honors

Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1992.

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