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Professor Derek Stretch

		Derek holds a PhD in environmental fluid mechanics from Cambridge University, UK. He currently occupies the eThekwini-sponsored Chair in Civil Engineering and is Director of the Centre for Research in Environmental, Coastal & Hydrological Engineering. His research group focuses on the bio-hydrodynamics of estuarine ecosystems, coastal and shoreline processes, and generally on the understanding and modeling of turbulence and mixing in environmental flows.

Quote:		“Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it” - Norman Maclean
Position:		Emeritus Professor
Qualifications:		BScEng, MScEng, PhD (Cantab)

Discipline:		Civil Engineering
Campus		Howard
Telephone:		031 260 1064
Email:		Stretchd@ukzn.ac.za
Recent Publications:		Stretch, DD, Lawrie, RA, Chrystal, CP, Main, C & Pringle, J (2013) Estuary & Lake Hydrodynamics. In Perissinotto R, Stretch DD, Taylor, R (eds) Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems: Lake St. Lucia as a Global Model. Cambridge University Press [ISBN 978-1-10701-975-1] Lawrie, RA, Stretch, DD (2011) Anthropogenic impacts on the water & salt budgets of St Lucia estuarine lake in South Africa. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 93, 58 – 67. Stretch, DD & Venayagamoorthy, S (2010) Diapycnal diffusivities in homogeneous stratified turbulence. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L02602. doi:10.1029/2009GL041514, 2010