NEPTUNE Canada

Brian Bornhold

Project Scientist

A marine geologist with interests in sedimentary processes, geohazards and Quaternary paleoenvironments, he is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria where he teaches part-time and supervises graduate students. He has published more than 100 research papers in sedimentary geology and has held several research grants from both the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

After completing his B.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo, his M.Sc. in Geology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Marine Geology and Geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he taught at the University of Toronto for two years before beginning a long career with the Geological Survey of Canada, based in Ottawa and at the Pacific Geoscience Centre in Sidney, British Columbia. In 1990, he was selected to attend the National Defence College of Canada in a one-year course in public policy, following which he was appointed as the first Director of the Canadian Global Change Program of the Royal Society of Canada, a post which he held for two years. In 1993 he returned to the Geological Survey of Canada, retiring in 1998 to become Vice-President of Coastal and Ocean Resources Inc, a coastal and marine geological consulting company and President of International Tsunami Research Inc., a company specializing in numerical modelling of tsunamis and other oceanographic phenomena. He joined NEPTUNE Canada in 2004, working half-time as a Project Scientist.

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