The Gerard Medal was established by the Committee in 1991 to recognize and remember the contributions made to the field of river ice engineering by the late Dr. R. (Larry) Gerard. The medal is awarded to the author or authors of the paper deemed to be the best amongst those presented at each Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers.
Dr. Gerard was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta and was recognized world-wide for his contributions in river ice engineering. The International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR) published a tribute detailing the career and accomplishments of Dr. Gerard as a part of the 11th International Symposium on Ice in Banff, Alberta in 1992.
Past Recipients of the Gerard Medal
Evaluating Criteria for Mechanical Breakup Initiation Using Field Data
Yanqi Ye and Yuntong She
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Two-Dimensional Modelling of Freeze-Up Conditions near Jenpeg Generating Station
Kevin Lees, Shawn Clark, Jarrod Malenchak, and Paul Chanel
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Hydro-meteorological pattern recognition of ice jams
Fatemehalsadat Madaeni, Rachid Lhissou, Karem Chokmani, and Serge Légaré
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Application of a Fast Superpixel Segmentation Algorithm in River Ice Classification
Saber Ansari, Colin D. Rennie, Shawn P. Clark, and Ousmane Seidou
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Variogram-based sensitivity analyses of a river ice model
Fan Zhang, Nhu Do, Saman Razavi, and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
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Laboratory Investigation of Void Seepage and Flow under Simulated Ice Jams
Andrew Murray, Ebenezer Essel, and Karen Dow
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Numerical Modeling of Secondary Flow in a Covered Channel Bend for Different Water Depths Using LRR Turbulence Model
Samaneh Ebrahimi, Majid Mohammadian, and Colin Rennie
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Working towards optical remote sensing of pan-Arctic river and lake ice
Wayana Dolan, Xiao Yang, Shuai Zhang, and Tamlin Pavelsky
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A fully Lagrangian mesh-free numerical model for river ice dynamic
Rubens Augusto Amaro Junior, Andrea Mellado-Cusicahua, Ahmad Shakibaeinia, and Liang-Yee Cheng
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Estimation of Break-up Water Levels in Athabasca River at Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
Soheil Ghareh Aghaji Zare, Joe Groeneveld, David Andres, and Abdullah Mamoon
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