Kyle Spyksma

Kyle Spyksma, B.Sc, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Redeemer University College. He has published numerous articles, mainly focusing on his research in cumulus cloud dynamics, theoretical turbulent flows, and statistical turbulence. He teaches undergraduate courses in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics.
Biography
Kyle Spyksma received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a Physics Minor in 2001 at Redeemer University College. He went on to receive his doctorate at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, in 2007. His thesis paper, "On the dynamics and predictability of moist turbulence", has become a valuable asset in the study of moist turbulence. Kyle Spyksma recently (2007) began teaching full time at Redeemer University College while also receiving funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) in the form of a $15,000/year Discovery Grant (2008-2013) for his research in high-resolution studies of turbulence and phase changes in convective clouds. The research that Kyle Spyksma has done has enabled him to produce a series of research papers in the field of statistical turbulence as well as hire undergraduate students for summer research through NSERC's Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) program.
Kyle Spyksma is a member of CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, AMetSoc (American Meteorological Society), as well as ACMS (Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences). He is the assistant coach for the Redeemer University College Women's Volleyball team. He, his wife, and their three children currently live in Hamilton, Ontario.
Publications
*K. Spyksma and P. Bartello, Small-scale moist turbulence in numerically-generated cumulus clouds, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2008, Volume 65, Number 6, pp. 1967-1978.
*K. Spyksma and P. Bartello, Predictability in wet and dry convective turbulence, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2008, Volume 65, Number 1, pp. 220-234.
*K. Spyksma, P. Bartello and M.K. Yau, A Boussinesq moist turbulence model, Journal of Turbulence, 2006, Volume 7, Number 32, pp. 1-24.
*W. van Dijk, K. Spyksma and M. West, Non-threshold anomalous time advance in multi-channel scattering, Physical Review A, 2008, Volume 78, 022108, (12 pages).
*W. van Dijk, K. A. Kiers, Y. Nogami, A. Platt and K. Spyksma, Quantum mechanical and semi-classical treatment of quantum excitations due to the passage of a particle, Journal of Physics A: General, 2003, Volume 36, pp. 5625-5643.

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