GarrettUVic oceanographer Chris Garrett has won the Chairman’s Award for Career Achievement from the BC Innovation Council.
Garrett, who is the Lansdowne Professor of Ocean Physics in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, received the award at a gala dinner in Vancouver on Sept. 29.
The award goes to an individual who has made an important and sustained contribution to innovative science or technology throughout his or her career.
Garrett studies ocean processes, including the small-scale mixing processes that affect ocean circulation. His work is relevant to models of ocean circulation, climate marine productivity, pollution and oceanic waste treatment. His interests also include the use of ocean tides for power generation.
“Physical oceanography provides a wonderful combination of intellectual challenge and societal relevance,” says Garrett. “One topic that my colleagues and I have looked at recently is the use of strong tidal currents as a source of electrical power.”
Garrett joined UVic in 1991 after 20 years at Dalhousie University. Over the last 40 years he has published extensively in oceanography, fluid mechanics and renewable energy.
Garrett is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of London as well as the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). His other awards include an NSERC Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henry Stommel Research Award from the AMS, and election as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
The BC Innovation Council supports applied research and commercialization of science and technology to foster province-wide economic development.
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