About Lukas
Lukas has always had an interest for rivers and spends lots of his spare time in and around them. Apart from his interests in the outdoors, camping, and hiking, he likes playing volleyball, and helps run weekly skills camps for young athletes.

Work Experience
Watermark Environmental (2020) – Environmental Engineering Assistant
Baird & Associates (2019) – Coastal Engineering Assistant
Regional Municipality of York (2018) – Water Resources Assistant

Research Interests
Lukas’s research mainly takes place in the university’s Fluid Lab, where he investigates river processes using two large flumes. These flumes enable researchers to create large, scaled models of many different types of rivers. The processes taking place in these models are observed using UV lights to illuminate particles painted in UV sensitive paint, high speed cameras to record the movement of these particles, and a scale at the downstream end used to weigh expelled sediment.
His current work revolves mainly around two river models: Wilket Creek and Penticton Creek. The model of Wilket Creek, a heavily urbanized channel located in Toronto, was created to investigate the formation of bedforms in a river with a partially mobile bed and is equipped with the capability to produce floods that reflect real storms. The Penticton Creek model was created to assess methods of salmon spawning habitat restoration.