Dr Chris Keylock

Prize Senior Lecturer

Address:
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD

Room: Mez C3
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5705
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 5700
Email: c.keylock@sheffield.ac.uk

Qualifications

Ph.D., 2002, University of Cambridge
M.Sc., 1996, University of British Columbia
B.A.(hons) 1994, University of Oxford

Profile

Chris Keylock returned to full-time academia when he joined the department as a Prize Senior Lecturer in July, 2010. He works at the interface of engineering, physics and earth sciences on a range of phenomena. Current research interests include:

• The dynamics of mass movements (avalanches) and granular shear flows;
• Turbulent flows over complex surfaces and the elucidation of flow structures;
• Wavelet methods for nonlinear and chaotic phenomena;
• Risk analyses for mass movements.

Activities and Distinctions

• 2004 – Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
• 1993 & 1994 – College Exhibition, Brasenose College, Oxford

Selected Publications

• Keylock CJ (2010) Characterizing the structure of nonlinear systems using gradual wavelet reconstruction. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 17 (6), pp 615-632. ISSN 1023-5809. DOI 10.5194/npg-17-615-2010
• Keylock CJ (2008) A criterion for delimiting active periods within turbulent flows. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, June, p L11804. ISSN 0094-8276. DOI 10.1029/2008GL033858
• Keylock CJ (2006) Constrained surrogate time series with preservation of the mean and variance structure. Physical Review E, 73 (3), March, p 036707. ISSN 1539-3755. DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.036707
• Keylock CJ, Hardy RJ, Parsons DR, Ferguson RI, Lane SN and Richards KS (2005) The theoretical foundations and potential for large-eddy simulation (LES) in fluvial geomorphic and sedimentological research. Earth-Science Reviews, 71 (3), August, pp 271-304. ISSN 0012-8252. DOI 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.03.001
• Barbolini M, Gruber U, Keylock CJ, Naaim N and Savi F (2000) Application of statistical and hydraulic-continuum dense-snow avalanche models to 5 real European sites. Cold Regions Science and Technology , 31, pp 133-149. ISSN 0165-232X. DOI 10.1016/S0165-232X(00)00008-2

Grants

• 2009-2011: British Council Alliance programme UK-France 'Risk zoning for snow avalanches in a changing climate' with CEMAGREF, Grenoble.
• 2008 - 2011 : NERC - 'Geophysical flow dynamics using pulsed Doppler radar' with Mathematics, University of Cambridge, and Electrical Engineering, UCL.
• 2004: British Council PPS programme UK-Netherlands 'Measuring and modelling flow through flexible fractal objects' with Mathematics, University of Twente, Netherlands.
• 2004: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short Term) 'Snow saltation as a function of temperature and the role of coherent vortices'
• 2003: NERC – Funding for meeting on Geophysical Granular and Particle Laden Flows formed as a satellite meeting to the Isaac Newton Institute programme on Granular and Particle Laden Flows, with Mathematics at Bristol and Manchester.
• 2002 – 2005: Partner on the EU 5th Framework research programme 'Avalanche Studies and Model Validation in Europe' SATSIE.
• 2002 - 2004: Nuffield Foundation award to New for Large-Eddy Simulation study of flow and sediment movement at confluences.

Teaching

• I will be convening a new level 4 course in semester 2.