Spyros Beltaos

Research Scientist
Tel: 905-336-4898
Fax: 905-996-4420
Email: Spyros.Beltaos@cciw.ca

Information

Education:
Dipl. Eng. (Civil) National Technical University, Athens, Greece
M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Alberta

Expertise:

• Cold regions hydraulics and hydrology with special focus on river ice breakup and jamming processes, transport of sediment and dispersion of contaminants in ice-laden rivers, and load bearing capacity of floating ice covers
• Impacts of climate change on river ice processes with emphasis on extreme ice-jam events and their socio-economic and ecological consequences

Ongoing Studies/Research Activities:

• Impacts of climate change and flow regulation on the occurrence of ice-jam flooding in northern deltas, a major mechanism of habitat replenishment and ecosystem
• Hydroclimatic studies of ice-jam floods
• Return period analysis and climate trends of extreme flood events in Arctic rivers
• Interaction of extreme ice-jam events with bridges and development of design criteria to ensure structure integrity and minimize potential for ice-jam instigation
• Implementation and calibration of numerical ice-jam models for operation, real-time flood forecasting