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Paul Hill's Lab Group
Paul Hill, Professor
 Paul Hill is
Professor in the Oceanography Department at Dalhousie University. He arrived here in 1993
after completing
Masters and PhD degrees in the School
of Oceanography
at the University
of Washington
in Seattle. He obtained his
undergraduate degree from Dartmouth
College in
1984. Paul’s area of
expertise is fine sediment
transport in the coastal ocean. With
a
combination of field, laboratory, and theoretical approaches he
investigates
the processes that transport mud from rivers to the seabed of the
world’s
continental shelves. He
also has active
research projects investigating the interaction of fine sediment and
oil
spilled into the coastal zone, the effect of suspended sediment on
water
column optical and acoustical properties, and the erodibility of
intertidal mudflats. Paul’s
research has taken him around the globe, to Nova
Scotia, Massachusetts, California,
Washington, Alaska, Italy
and France. Paul also enjoys
communicating his
knowledge of the oceans to students and to the public.
He currently teaches Dalhousie’s
introductory
Oceanography course and a course about the ocean’s role in
major events in
Earth’s geologic history. Paul is married to Nancy
and has three boys (Charlie, Tom and George) and three dogs. When
not thinking about
the ocean, he likes to either ski (winter) or slave in the yard (all
other times).
Stephanie Kienast, Adjunct Professor
 Stephanie Kienast is
a former NSERC postdoctoral fellow and currently is an Adjunct
Professor in the Department. Stephanie is a paleoceanographer
who studies
glacial-interglacial changes in the
equatorial Pacific. Her research interests are at the interface between
oceanography, geology, and chemistry and revolve around deciphering
past climate and ocean change as recorded in marine sediments.
Currently,Stephanie is focusing on a) changes in deep water flow as
recorded in the grain size composition of sediments (postdoctoral work
with Paul Hill) and b) accurate reconstructions of particle fluxes in
the ocean using 230Thorium (with Roger François and Stephen
Calvert, University of British Columbia).
John Newgard, Research Assistant
 John Newgard joined
Paul's group in spring, 2008 to help out with some data processing and
analysis. John received his MSc working with Alex Hay in the
Department of Oceanography. John does not mind doing things other
than working on data processing and analysis. To the left is a
picture of him in a kayak flying off of a waterfall on the Folly River
in Nova Scotia. If you look closely, I think you can see him
smiling.
Laura DeGelleke, MSc Candidate
Laura DeGelleke is
investigating how sediment size distributions in the seabed can be used
to infer properties of a large meltwater plume associated with Heinrich
event 1A. She received her BSc from the University of Hawaii.
Jessica Carriere-Garwood, NSERC USRA and Honours Student
Jessica is pursuing
a Marine Biology/Oceanography combined Honours degree at
Dalhousie. Her thesis topic is the effect of sediment texture and
biological "glues" on erodibility of intertidal mud and sand flats.
She has been working in the group since summer, 2009.
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