Member Since 1999
Marwan Hassan
Professor, University of British Columbia
Professional Experience
University of British Columbia
Professor
2002 - Present
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
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Education
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctorate
1989
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For research excellence in the dynamics of coarse-bedded rivers and sustained leadership in research collaboration across disciplines and nations
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Current Roles
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Fellows Committee
Publications
Drag Coefficient of Emergent Vegetation in a Shallow Nonuniform Flow Over a Mobile Sand Bed

Widely distributed in natural rivers and coasts, vegetation interacts with fluid flows and sediments in a variable and complicated manner. Such int...

May 14, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Dissimilarity Between the Postglacial Sediment Dynamics of Adjacent Mountain Watersheds
EARTH AND PLANETARY SURFACE PROCESSES GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 15 december 2023
Mike Turley, Marwan Hassan, Andre E. Zimmermann
Managing and living with geohazards is especially challenging in mountain landscapes. Steep topography, glacier retreat, and extreme temperature and p...
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Displacement, dispersion, and slowdown of bed grains: Insights from the simulation model
FLUID FLOW, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN FLUVIAL SYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES V POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Anshul Yadav, Marwan Hassan, Conor McDowell, D. Na...
Tracer studies are widely used for estimating bedload transport and evaluation of models developed based on Einstein's stochastic theory. The movement...
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Large Wood’s Influence on Longitudinal and Lateral Sediment Dynamics in Forested Streams
LARGE WOOD IN RIVER MANAGEMENT: INTERACTIONS OF FLOW, SEDIMENT, AND WOOD IN RIVER SYSTEMS ELIGHTNING
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Marwan Hassan, Mike Turley, David Reid, Conor McDo...
Large wood (LW) constitutes an important ecological, hydraulic and geomorphological element of the channel ecosystem. Despite the large number of case...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Fellows Committee
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