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Professor Kerry Rowe OC FRS FREng
Born	Ronald Kerry Rowe (1951-09-13) September 13, 1951 (age 73)
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2013); Officer of the Order of Canada (2018); Inaugural winner of the NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research (2022)
Scientific career
Institutions	Queen's University

Website	civil.queensu.ca/Research/Geotechnical/R-Kerry-Rowe1/index.html

Ronald Kerry Rowe (born 13 September 1951) is a Canadian civil engineer of Australian birth, one of the pioneers of geosynthetics.^[1]

Education

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Rowe was educated at Fort Street High School, Sydney (1964-1969) and the University of Sydney, where he was awarded a BSc (Computer Science) in 1973, BE (First Hons, Civil Engineering) and the University Medal in 1975, a PhD in 1979 and D.Eng in 1993.

Career and research

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Rowe worked as a geotechnical engineer with the Australian Government Department of Construction prior to emigrating to Canada in 1978, where he spent 22 years as a professor, including 8 years as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

From 2000 to 2010 he served as Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he was responsible for the administration of all research (in Business, Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Physical and Biological Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Health Sciences and Medicine). He is presently (2023) a Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's.

His research has covered contaminant migration through soil and rock, landfill design, containment of contaminated sites, geosynthetics (including geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, geonets etc.), tailings storage facilities and dams, reinforced embankments and walls, tunnels in soft ground and the failure of slopes and excavations. In particular he has researched the effectiveness of plastic (geomembrane) liners and geosynthetic clay liners (a composite material incorporating clay) that limit contamination from mining operations and waste disposal facilities.^[2]

He is a past President of the International Geosynthetics Society, the Canadian Geotechnical Society and the Engineering Institute of Canada.^[3]

Publications

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Honours and awards

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2001: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2004: Killam Prize, awarded by the Canada Council
2005: Rankine Lecture to the British Geotechnical Association
2010: International Fellow, UK Royal Academy of Engineering
2012: Sir John Kennedy Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada
2013: Fellow of the Royal Society of London, UK
2014: Thomas Telford Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers
2015: Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
2016: Member of the National Academy of Engineering
2018: Officer of the Order of Canada
2018: International Geosynthetics Society Award and Gold Medal
2020: Elected Distinguished Member American Society of Civil Engineers
2022: Inaugural winner of the NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research

References

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^ "R. Kerry Rowe Curriculum Vitae 2005" (PDF). a100.gov.bc.ca.
^ "Kerry Rowe-Biography". Retrieved 8 December 2016.
^ "CIVIL - R. Kerry Rowe". civil.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-06.

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2013
Fellows	Harry Anderson Judy Armitage Keith Ball Mike Bevan Mervyn Bibb Stephen Bloom Gilles Brassard Michael Burrows Jon Crowcroft Ara Darzi Bill Earnshaw Gerry Gilmore Nigel Glover Ray Goldstein Melvyn Goodale Martin Green Gillian Griffiths Joanna Haigh Phil Hawkins Edith Heard Gideon Henderson Guy Lloyd-Jones Stephen P. Long Nicholas Lydon Anne Mills Paul O'Brien William D. Richardson Gareth Roberts Kerry Rowe John Savill Christopher J. Schofield Paul Sharp Stephen Simpson Terry Speed Maria Grazia Spillantini Douglas Stephan Brigitta Stockinger Alan Turnbull Jean-Paul Vincent Andrew Wilkie Terry Wyatt Julia Yeomans Robert Young
Honorary	Bill Bryson
Foreign	Margaret Buckingham Chen Zhu John Hutchinson Eric Kandel Elliott Lieb K. C. Nicolaou Randy Schekman Eli Yablonovitch
Royal	Prince Andrew, Duke of York

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