Alexander E. Hay
Professor

RELATED INFORMATION
- Personal website
- Courses:
- OCEA 5250 - Introduction to Acoustical Oceanography
- OCEA 5210 - Time Series Analysis in Oceanography and Meteorology
- OCEA 5221 - Ocean Dynamics
- OCEA 5223 - Waves
- OCEA 2020 - Tools & Concepts in Ocean Sciences: Acoustics Module
Email: alex.hay@dal.ca
Fax: 902-494-3877
Mailing Address:
Room 5670, LSC Ocean Wing, 1355 Oxford St
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Research Topics:PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
- Oceanography
- Physical oceanography
- Marine geology
EDUCATION
- BSc - University of Western Ontario
- MSc - University of Western Ontario
- PhD - University of British Columbia
PUBLICATIONS
- Richards, C., D. Bougault, P. S. Galbraith, A. E. Hay, and D. E. Kelley, 2013. Measurements of shoaling internal waves and turbulence in an estuary, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 273-286, doi:10.1029/2012JC008154.
- Dillon, J., L. Zedel and A. E. Hay, 2012. On the distribution of velocity measurements from pulse-to-pulse coherent Doppler sonar, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., 37 (4), 613-625.
- Hay, A.E., L. Zedel, R. Cheel and J. Dillon, 2012c. On the vertical and temporal structure of flow and stress in the turbulent oscillatory boundary layer above evolving sand ripples: Observations using a prototype wide-band coherent Doppler profiler, Cont. Shelf. Res., 46 (Special Issue on the Application of Acoustics to Sediment Transport Processes), , pp. 31-49.
- Hay, A.E., L. Zedel, R. Cheel and J. Dillon, 2012b. Observations of the vertical structure of turbulent oscillatory boundary layers above fixed roughness using a prototype wide-band coherent Doppler profiler: 2. Turbulence and stress, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C03006, doi:10.1029/2011JC007114.
- Hay, A.E., L. Zedel, R. Cheel and J. Dillon, 2012a. Observations of the vertical structure of turbulent oscillatory boundary layers above fixed roughness using a prototype wide-band coherent Doppler profiler: 1. The oscillatory component of the flow, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C03005, doi:10.1029/2011JC007113.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Killam Professor of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, 2013-2018
- Excellence in Review, IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 34(2), 101, 2008.
- President’s Prize, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 2000
- Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, Elected 1994