Marc Parlange | |
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| Parlange in 2021 | |
| 12th President of the University of Rhode Island | |
| Assumed office August 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | David M. Dooley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 5,1962 [1] [2] |
| Education | Griffith University (BS) Cornell University (MS,PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Hydrology |
| Institutions | University of California,Davis Johns Hopkins University Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne University of British Columbia Monash University University of Rhode Island |
| Thesis | Regional Scale Land-Atmosphere Interaction over Complex Forest Terrain (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfried Brutsaert |
Marc Brendan Parlange (born 1962) [1] is an American civil engineer who has been serving as the 12th president of the University of Rhode Island since August 2021. He previously served as provost of Monash University in Australia from 2017 to 2021. His field of study is in environmental fluid mechanics and research in hydrology and climate change. [3]
In March 2020,the Victorian Government announced a shutdown of non-essential venues and services to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. [11] With the implementation of the restrictions,Parlange established the Melbourne Experiment to bring together research expertise across Monash University to monitor and analyse elements of the urban environment before,during and after the COVID-19 shutdown. [12]