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
Observation of culverts with fish passage design in winter time
Jean-Robert Ladouceur and Tadros Ghobrial
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Assessment of regulation impacts on ice formation in river Alta, Norway
Knut Alfredsen and Sanjoy Kumar Saha
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Conceptual Design of a High Flow Air Screen for Brash Ice Retention in Strong Ambient Crossflow
Chandler Engel, Steven Daly and Iqbal Biln
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Field measurements of supercooling and anchor ice properties
Chuankang Pei, Jiaqi Yang, Yuntong She, and Mark Loewen
Student Paper
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Field measurements of frazil ice accumulation at a water intake on the Mille-Iles River, Québec
Tadros Ghobrial, Amandine Pierre and Brian Morse
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Infrastructure and River Ice: An Overview
Brian Burrell, Benoit Turcotte, George Comfort and Joe Groeneveld
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Ice-Run Destruction of Spencer Dam on Nebraska's Niobrara River
Robert Ettema, Mark Baker, Marty Teal and John Trojanowski
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Highway Bridge Design in an Ice Jam-Prone Area on the Aux Brochets River
Simon Nolin, Pierre Pelletier and Claudine Breton
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Developing a geospatial model to predict locations of higher propensity to ice jamming along the Saint John River
Ananya Kowshal, Apurba Das and Karl-Erich Lindenschimdt
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Fluvial geomorphological responses to river ice dynamics downstream of a hydroelectric facility, southwest Yukon
Dan McParland, Robin McKillop and Forest Pearson
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