Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1191 Office: RRB 221 Tel. (213) 740-7182 Fax. (213) 740-7774 email: geoff@usc.edu

Academic rank: Professor, full-time

Education:

1981 Ph.D. in Zoology (with Civil Engineering Department) from the Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.
1978 B.Sc.(Hons, 1st class) in Zoology from the Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.

USC Academic Positions:

2005-: Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
1998-2005: Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
1994-1998: Research Associate Professor, Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
1988-1994: Research Assistant Professor, Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Member of Center for Neural Engineering
1981-1988: Research Associate, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Other Professional Positions:

1998-: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden.
1997: Stagiaire, Coriolis Research Laboratories, Institute de Mécanique Grenoble, France.

Research Interests:

Geophysical fluid dynamics, animal aero- and hydrodynamics, turbulence

Selected Publications:

Hedenstrom A. Spedding, G. R. and M. Rosen, ''Quantitative studies of the wakes of freely-flying birds in a low turbulence wind tunnel,'' Expts. in Fluids 34, pp. 291-303, 2003.
G. R. Spedding, ''The streamwise spacing of adjacent coherent structures in stratified wakes,'' Phys. of Fluids 4, pp. 3820-3828, 2002.
G. R. Spedding, ''Vertical structure in stratified wakes at high initial Froude number,'' J. Fluid Mech. 454, pp. 71-112, 2002.
G. R. Spedding, ''Anisotropy in turbulence profiles of stratified wakes,'' Phys. of Fluids 13, pp. 2361-2372, 2001.
G. R. Spedding and C. J. Pennycuick, ''Uncertainty analysis for experimental and theoretical power curves,'' J. Theor. Biol. 208, pp. 127-139, 2001.
G. R. Spedding and A. M. Fincham, ''Effects of background rotation on a towed-sphere wake in a stably-stratified fluid,'' Il Nuovo Cimento 22, pp. 875-883, 1999.
G. R. Spedding and P. B. S. Lissaman, ''Technical aspects of microscale flight systems,'' J. Avian Biol. 29, pp. 458-468, 1998.
G. R. Spedding, ''The evolution of initially-turbulent, bluff-body wakes at high internal Froude number,'' J. Fluid Mech. 337, pp. 283-301, 1997.
A. M. Fincham and G. R. Spedding, ''Low-cost, high resolution DPIV for measurement of turbulent fluid flow,'' Expts. in Fluids 23, pp. 449-462, 1997.

Professional Societies:

American Physical Society
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sigma Xi
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Institute of Biology
Union of Concerned Scientists

Honors and Awards:

2001: Honorary Member of Sigma Gamma Tau

Courses Taught:

AME 341ab, Mechoptronics

Recent Professional Development Activities:

None

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