Coastal Zones and Oceanography

Dr Makarynskyy has over 25 years’ project management experience and extensive skills in the areas of metocean numerical modelling and data collection, processing, integration and analysis. He has led multiple research field campaigns, hydrodynamic, wastewater discharge and dredging studies, and oil spill assessments including sensitivity mapping and contingency planning, toxicity and risk of releases, hydrocarbon weathering, deterministic and stochastic spill trajectory modelling. His professional history also embraces climate studies using earth system models, studies of sensitivity of wave and hydrodynamic models, wind, wave and current hindcast, prediction, data assimilation, and model validation studies.

Dr Makarynskyy enjoys challenge, resolving issues, identifying opportunities, and developing and growing opportunities to successful commercially and environmentally sustainable outcomes. He has demonstrated throughout his career his ability to market services and to develop business with new and existing clients. His particular strength is in ensuring that project outcomes are achieved on time and within budget.