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Professors
Doug Stead
email: dstead@sfu.ca
Current Research:
Developments in resource geoscience and geotechnics.
Integration of digital imaging and DFN's into slope stability models
Numerical modelling of complex landslide mechanisms.
Investigation of rock and soil failure mechanism using integrated experimental-field-modelling approaches.
Mining and petroleum geomechanics.
Forestry Geotechnics
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Adjunct Professors  


Dr. Rejean Couture
Affiliation: Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.

Research: Engineering Geology and Landslides.



Dr. Davide Elmo
email:Davide Elmo
Research: Underground and surface rock mechanics

Current Employer: Golder Associates Vancouver (Mining Division)


Post-Doc's.  


Dr. Tom Styles
email:Tom Styles
Post Doctoral Fellow, May 2009- December 2010.
Research: Underground and surface rock mechanics.
 Current Employer: AMC Maidenhead, UK.


Dr. Davide Elmo
email:Davide Elmo
Research: Underground and surface rock mechanics
Post Doctoral Fellow (2006-2008)
Current Employer: Golder Associates Vancouver (Mining Division)


   

Dr. Amir Karami
Post Doctoral Fellow: 2004-2005
email: Amir Karami
Research: Fracture Mechanics
Current Employer: Wardrop Engineering, Senior Geotechnical Engineer.

   
Current Graduate Students  
 
  
 Zack Tuckey
email: Zack Tuckey
MSc. Research: Commenced September 2010
Rock bridge characterization in large open pit mine slopes

 Janisse Vivas
email: Janisse Vivas
MSc. Research: Commenced January 2011.
Groundwater modelling in natural and open pit rock slopes
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Fuqiang Gao, M.Eng.
email:Fuqiang Gao
PhD Research: Commenced Spring 2009
Rock Mass modelling of Chinese longwall coal mines using FLAC3D/PFC3D
Pooya Hamdi, M.Eng.
email:Pooya Hamdi
PhD Research: Commenced September 2011
Brittle Fracture Characterization around Underground Excavations

Mohsen Havaej, M.Eng.
email:Mohsen Havaej
PhD Research: Commenced Summer 2011
Brittle Fracture Modelling of High Rock Slopes


 

Andrea Wolter
email:Andrea Wolter
PhD Research: Commenced September 2009 (Co-Supervision with John Clague)
Geomechanical Studies on the Vaiont Rockslide, Italy

 

 
   

Yabing Zhang, M.Eng.
email:Yabing Zhang
PhD Research:Successfully completed candidacy exam June 2010
Modelling brittle rock fracture damage in pillars using PFC3D

 

 
   
Past Graduate Students  
 

Dr. Ming Yan (Minna)
email: Ming Yan
PhD Research: Successfully defended March 2008
Fracture mechanics: Brittle fracture and step-path failure in rock slopes

Current Employer: Shannon & Wilson Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA
   

Dr. Matthieu Sturzenegger
email: Matthieu Sturzenegger
PhD Research: Successfully defended June 2010
Rock mass characterization using digital photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques
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Current Employer:Klohn Leonoff, Vancouver.

Dr. Marc-Andre Brideau.
email:Marc Andre Brideau
PhD Research: Successfully defended March 2010
Three dimensional kinematic controls on rock slope stability
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Current Employer: Lecturer in Engineering Geology, University of Auckland, N.Z.

Dr. Alex Vyazmensky
email: Alex Vyazmensky
PhD Research:Successfully defended September 2008
Characterization of Subsidence associated with Block Caving

 

Curent Employer: Rio Tinto
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Sung Lee
email: Sung Lee
MSc. Successfully defended June 2011
Rock mass characterization in surface coal mines using photogrammetry

 

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Gabe Hensold , MSc.
email:
MSc. Successfully defended April 2011
Characterization of sackung deformation in B.C. high mountain slopes

 

Curent Employer: BGC Engineering Vancouver

David van Zeyl, MSc.
email: David van Zeyl
MSc. Successfully defended January 2009
Rock slide induced tsunamis

 

Curent Employer: J.D. Mollard Associates, Regina, SK.
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Marc-Andre Brideau, MSc.
email:Marc Andre Brideau
MSc Research: Completed October 2005
Influence of geological structures and tectonic damage on rock slope stability
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Current Employer: Lecturer in Engineering Geology, University of Auckland, N.Z

 Nichole Boultbee, MSc.
email: Nichole Boultbee
MSc. Research Completed 2005
Copper River rock avalanche
Employer: Golder Associates (Vancouver)
 
 Derek Kinakin, MSc.
email: Derek Kinakin
MSc. Research:Completed 2005
Mountain Linears: Occurence and genesis
Employer: BGC Engineering, Vancouver.
 Scott Paddington, MSc.
email: Scott Paddington
MSc Research:Completed 2003
Debris Flow Initiation in Gentle - Over - Steep Terrain
Employer: XStrata Copper Mt Isa, Australia.