Professor Philip O’Kane was awarded the UNESCO-IHE Honorary Fellowship in April during the Institute’s Master of Science academic graduation ceremony.
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 is an Irish civil engineer and 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.
He 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, where he is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering.
Honorary Fellowships at UNESCO-IHE
Appointment of the UNESCO-IHE Honorary Fellowship in a learned or professional society can be either to honour exceptional achievement and/or service within the professional domain of the awarding body or to honour contributions related to the domain from someone who is professionally outside it.
See also: UNESCO-IHE Honorary Fellows
