Barry Ruddick

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Phone: (902) 494-2505
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: barry.ruddick@dal.ca
Webpage: Barry Ruddick's personal webpage

Education Background

• PhD - Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MSc - Physics, University of Victoria
• BA - Physics, University of Victoria

Research Interests

• Ocean mixing processes
• Internal waves
• Geophysical flows
• Seismic oceanography -- imaging ocean fine structures using multichannel seismic techniques

5223.03: Ocean Waves

Wells, M.G., S.A. Bailey and B. Ruddick - 2011 - The dilution and dispersion of ballast water discharged into Goderich Harbor - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 62, 1299-1296, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.03.005

Ruddick, B.R., N.S. Oakey and D. Hebert - 2010 - Measuring lateral heat flux across a thermohaline front: A model and observational test - Journal of Marine Research, 68, 523-539

Mirshak, R., M.R. Nedimovic, B.J.W. Greenan, B.R. Ruddick, and K.E. Louden - 2010 - Coincident reflection images of the Gulf Stream from seismic and hydrographic data - Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L05602, doi:10.1029/2009GL042359

Smyth, W.D., and B. Ruddick - 2010 - Effects of ambient turbulence on interleaving at a baroclinic front - J. Phys. Oceangr., 40, 685-712, doi:10.1175/2009JPO4297.1

Ruddick, B., H. Song, C. Dong, and L. Pinheiro - 2009 - Water column seismic images as smoothed maps of temperature gradient - Oceanography, 22(1), 192-205

Pinheiro, L.M., H. Song, B. Ruddick, J. Dubert, I. Ambar, K. Mustafa, and R. Bezerra - 2009 - Detailed 2-D imaging of the Mediterranean outflow and meddies off W. Iberia from multichannel seismic data - Journal of Marine Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.07.004

Bard, S.M., B.R. Ruddick, and C.T. Taggart - 2008 - The flux of stuff: Developing an inexpensive and accurate method to track dispersion of environmental contaminants in aquatic ecosystems - Marine Environmental Research, 66, 187-189 (published abstract)

Mueller, R.D., W.D. Smyth, and B.R. Ruddick - 2007 - Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2534-2549

Ruddick B.R. and K. Richards - 2003 - Oceanic thermohaline intrusions: Observations - Progress in Oceanography, 56 (3-4), 499-527

Ruddick, B.R. and O. Kerr - 2003 - Oceanic thermohaline intrusions: Theory - Progress in Oceanography, 56 (3-4), 483-497

Ruddick, B. - 2003 - Laboratory studies of interleaving - Progress In Oceanography, 56 (3-4), 529-547

Ruddick, B.R. - 2003 - Sounding out Ocean Fine Structure - Science, Perspectives, 301, 772-773

Hebert, D., and B.R. Ruddick - 2003 - Differential mixing by breaking internal waves - Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1042-1046

Ruddick, B., and A. E. Gargett - 2003 - Oceanic double-infusion: Introduction - Progress In Oceanography, 56 (3-4), 381-393

Reiss, C.S., Anis, A., Dower, J.F., Taggart, C.T., and Ruddick, B. - 2002 - Relationships among vertically structured in situ measures of turbulence, larval fish abundance and feeding success and copepods on Western Bank, Scotian Shelf. - Fisheries Oceanography, 11(3), 156-174.

Walsh, D., and Ruddick, B.R. - 2000 - Double-Diffusive Interleaving in the Presence of Turbulence - The Effect of a Nonconstant Flux Ratio. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30(9), 2231-2245.

Ruddick, B.R., Anis, A., and Thompson, K.R. - 2000 - Maximum Likelihood Spectral Fitting:  The Batchelor Spectrum. - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 1541-1555.

Ruddick, B.R., Phillips, O.M., and Turner, J.S. - 1999 - A laboratory and quantitative model of finite amplitude intrusions. - Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 30, 71-99.

Walsh, D., and B.R. Ruddick - 1998 - Nonlinear equilibrium of thermohaline intrusions - J. Phys. Oceangr., 28, 1043-1070.

Ruddick, B. R. - 1998 - Differential fluxes of heat and salt: implications for circulation and ecosystem modelling - Oceanography, 3(10), 122-127.

Walsh, D., and Ruddick, B.R. - 1997 - Nonlinear evolution of thermohaline intrusions. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 28, 1043-1070.

Ruddick, B.R., Walsh, D., and Oakey, N.S. - 1997 - Variations in apparent mixing efficiency in the North Atlantic central waters. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27, 2589-2605.

Ruddick, B.R., and Zhang, L.-Q. - 1996 - On the qualitative behaviour and non-oscillation of Stommel's thermohaline box model. - Journal of Climate, 9(11), 2768-2777.

Walsh, D., and Ruddick, B.R. - 1995 - Double-diffusive interleaving: the influence of non-constant diffusivities. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25(3), 348-358.