Teacher of the Year 2001-2002
Name: Peter Waylen
Department: Geography
College: Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rank: Professor
Years at UF: 15
Year and Institution of Ph.D.: 1982, McMaster University, Canada
Prof. Waylen has taught at the University of Florida for fifteen years following a term at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. A native of Hampshire in southern England, he obtained a B.Sc. in Geography at the London School of Economics, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada. His research and teaching center upon natural water-related phenomena, such as floods and droughts, which effect human activity, particularly the nature and causes of their fluctuations through time and between regions. Presently, he heads an international collaboration to forecast flows into the major hydroelectricity generating plants of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica, a region severely hit by El Niño. Other areas in which he has worked span the Americas from the Canadian Arctic to the southern Andes, and include southern Africa.
