Research
    • Environmental fluid mechanics: lake and reservoir dynamics

    Robb, D. M., R. Pieters and G. A. Lawrence.  2025. The Bathymetric effect and epilimnetic turbidity in a glacier-fed hydroelectric reservoir. ARC Geophysical Research 1(1): 6. https://doi.org/10.5149/ARC-GR.1365

    Pieters, R., G.A. Lawrence, A. Leung, J. Crusius and T. Pedersen.  2024.  Effect of a dense inflow on the stratification of a steep-sided lake.  Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12610 

    Robb, D., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2021. Fate of turbid glacial inflows in a hydroelectric reservoir. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 25pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-021-09815-4

    Imam, Y., B. Laval, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2020. The baroclinic response to wind in a multiarm multibasin reservoir. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(3): 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11328

    Tedford, E., G. Halferdahl, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2019. Temporal variations in turbidity in an oil sands pit lake. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 19: 457–473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-018-9632-6

    Bluteau, C.E., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2017. The effects of salt exclusion during ice formation on circulation in lakes. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 17(3): 579-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-016-9508-6

    Lawrence, G.A., E.W. Tedford and R. Pieters. 2016. Suspended solids in an end pit lake: potential mixing mechanisms. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 43: 211-217. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2015-0381 

    Pieters, R., W. Coady, K.I. Ashley and G.A. Lawrence. 2015. Artificial circulation of a mine pit lake. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 42(1): 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2014-0222

    Pieters, R. and G.A. Lawrence. 2014. Physical processes and meromixis in pit-lakes. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 41(6): 569-578. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2012-0132

    Imam, Y, B. Laval, R. Pieters, and G.A. Lawrence. 2013. Strongly damped baroclinic response to wind in multi-basin reservoirs. Limnology and Oceanography, 58(4), 1243-1258. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.4.1243

    Pieters, R. and G. A. Lawrence. 2012. Plunging inflows and the summer photic zone in reservoirs. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 47(3-4), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.2166/wqrjc.2012.143

    Pieters, R. and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Effect of salt exclusion from lake ice on seasonal circulation. Limnology and Oceanography, 54(2): 401-412. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.2.0401 

    Tedford, E.W., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Symmetric Holmboe instabilities in a laboratory exchange flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 636: 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112009007733

    Tedford, E.W., J.R. Carpenter, R. Pawlowicz, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Observation and analysis of shear instability in the Fraser River estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 114(C11006), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC005313

    Forrest A.L., B.E. Laval, R. Pieters and D.S.S. Lim. 2008. Convectively driven transport in temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(5, part 2), 2321-2332. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2008.53.5_part_2.2321

    Matzinger, A., R. Pieters, K.I. Ashley, G.A. Lawrence and A. Wuest. 2007. Effects of impoundment on nutrient pathways and lake productivity. Limnology and Oceanography, 52(6): 2629-2640. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2629

    Lawrence, G. A., R. Pieters, L. Zaremba, T. Tedford, L. Gu, S. Greco and P. Hamblin, 2004.  Summer exchange between Hamilton Harbour and Lake Ontario. Deep Sea Research II, 51(4-5), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.09.002

    Crusius, J., R. Pieters, A. Leung, P. Whittle, T. Pedersen, G. Lawrence and J.J. McNee, 2003. Tale of two pit lakes: Initial results of a three-year study of the Main Zone and Waterline pit lakes near Houston, British Columbia, Canada. Mining Engineering, 55, 43-48.

    Pieters, R., S. Harris, L.C. Thompson, L. Vidmanic, M. Roushorne, G. Lawrence, J.G. Stockner, H. Andrusak, K.I. Ashley, B. Lindsay, K. Hall and D. Lombard. 2003. Restoration of kokanee salmon in the Arrow Lakes reservoir, British Columbia: preliminary results of a fertilization experiment. Pages 177-196. In: J.G. Stockner, editor.  Nutrients in salmonid ecosystems: sustaining production and biodiversity.  American Fisheries Society, Symposium 34, Bethesda, Maryland.

    Zaremba, L.J., G.A. Lawrence and R. Pieters, 2003. Frictional two-layer exchange flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 474, 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002002720

    Stacey, M., R. Pieters, S. Pond, 2002. The simulation of deep-water exchange in a fjord, Indian Arm, British Columbia, Canada.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32(10), 2753-2765. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<2753:TSODWE>2.0.CO;2