The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof Marco Ghisalberti

Associate Professor
School of Environmental Systems Engineering

Contact details

Address

School of Environmental Systems Engineering
The University of Western Australia (M015)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2408

Fax

6488 1015

Email

Marco.Ghisalberti@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~ghisalbe

Qualifications

BSc BE W.Aust., MS PhD Mass.

Key research

environmental fluid mechanics; turbulence; mixing; particle dynamics; canopy flows.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Manager of Hydraulics Laboratory, School of Environmental Systems Engineering

Funding received

1.UWA Teaching Fellowship, 2010, "The impact of team-based learning on attainment of learning outcomes in an undergraduate statistics unit", $22,000, Sole Chief Investigator.

2.ARC Discovery Grant, 2010, “Extreme tidal forcing of a topographically complex coastal region: the Kimberley, Western Australia”, $430,000, Chief Investigator.

3.UWA Research Development Award, 2009, “Vertical mixing in wave flows over seagrass beds”, $17,681, Sole Chief Investigator.

4.CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Project, 2009-2010, “The role of herbivory and hydrodynamics in ameliorating the effects of nutrient enrichment in marine ecosystems”, $171,000, Chief Investigator.

5.UWA Research Grants Scheme, 2006, “Turbulent mixing in flows over submerged vegetation”, $28,970, Sole Chief Investigator.

6.UWA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005-2009, “Transport in obstructed shear flows”, $138,000, Sole Chief Investigator.

Teaching

Current: ENVE2601, ENVE2602/CIVL2130, ENVE3601
Past: ENVE3606, GENG1001

Research profile

Research profile and publications