Bill Peirson

Bill is the former Director of the Water Research Laboratory and a former co-Director of the UNSW Water Research Centre.

He has over 35 years professional engineering expertise and research experience in large-scale water engineering. This includes the fields of:

• Engineering hydraulics and fluid mechanics
• Coastal and ocean engineering
• River engineering
• Estuarine and port engineering
• Engineering hydrology

His specialist research interests include:

• Wave dynamics: air-sea interaction; wave breaking; turbulence; fluid mechanics
• Coastal and oceanographic processes; coastal structures
• Estuarine processes: environmental flows to estuaries; estuarine ecology; ecohydraulics; cohesive sediment dynamics
• Air-water exchanges of gases and other tracers
• Climate change adaptation of major engineering infrastructure
• Computer applications in civil and environmental engineering: numerical and physical modelling; instrument design
• Flood and river engineering; stormwater structures
• Atmospheric boundary layer processes
• Outfall design and assessment
• Reservoir engineering