Rate My Professor Bill Hogarth

Emeritus Professor Bill Hogarth is a mathematician in the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of New South Wales and a PhD from the University of Newcastle. A Chartered Mathematician, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society (FAustMS), and holds the CMath designation. Before joining the University of Newcastle in 2002, he was Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at Griffith University. At Newcastle, he served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Science and Information Technology.

Professor Hogarth specializes as a mathematical modeller applying his expertise to soil physics, with research interests in mathematical modelling of wind erosion, solute and water transport on soil surfaces and subsurface, infiltration in soils, porous media pressure distribution, aquifer recession, hydraulic jumps, and erosion processes. He has published over 120 journal articles and five conference outputs. Key publications include 'Transport time scales in soil erosion modeling' (Lisle et al., Vadose Zone Journal, 2017), 'Analytical approximation for the recession of a sloping aquifer' (Hogarth et al., Water Resources Research, 2014), 'Infiltration in soils with a saturated surface' (Hogarth et al., Water Resources Research, 2013), 'Porous media pressure distribution in centrifugal fields' (Hogarth et al., Water Resources Research, 2013), 'Simulations of spatial variability in particle-size emissions during wind erosion events' (Butler et al., Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2012), 'Erosion of soils due to rainfall impact - an interpolation method' (Parlange et al., Ecohydrology, 2012), 'Erosion caused by overland flow: An interpolation method' (Hogarth et al., Journal of Hydrology, 2011), 'A note on Chow's description of the weak hydraulic jump' (Hogarth et al., Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2008), 'Dynamic erosion of soil in steady sheet flow' (Rose et al., Journal of Hydrology, 2007), and 'Process-based approaches to modelling soil erosion' (Rose and Hogarth, 1998). Additional contributions encompass exact solutions for erosion models and hydraulic flow interpolations. He served as Ozreader for the Australian Research Council in Engineering and Environmental Sciences from 2001.