UNESCO-IHE Honorary Fellowship for UCC Academic
28.06.2011
Professor Philip O’Kane was awarded the UNESCO-IHE Honorary Fellowship during the Institute’s Master of Science academic graduation ceremony held recently. Professor O’Kane has contributed significantly to enhancing the quality of education and research in Hydrology and Hydroinformatics and has supported the activities of UNESCO-IHE for several decades. For this reason UNESCO-IHE awards him Honorary Fellow of the Institute.

Professor O’Kane, a civil engineer is a distinguished member of the international hydrological community who lectured at the Institute for over 30 years. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of a strong identity for hydrology within the family of geophysical sciences.

Professor O’Kane served as the president for Hydrological Sciences of the European Geophysical Society and restructured the Hydrological Science section to highlight Hydrology as a Geoscience and to differentiate it clearly from Applied Hydrology.

O’Kane spent most of his professional life as an academic at the universities of Dublin and later Cork.

Picture: Professor Philip O’Kane receiving the Honorary Fellowship Award

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