William Allen McLaren (b. 1938) is a retired Canadian engineer living (as of 2023) in southeastern

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. Born and raised in

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, McLaren graduated in 1960 from

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, with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. McLaren's early career involved hydrographic surveys in the Canadian arctic and the Persian Gulf before he joined the

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in 1964 as a glaciologist based in

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in Antarctica. McLaren Ridge in Antarctica is named after him. As a result of his Antarctic researches, McLaren received a Master of Science degree from the

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in 1968 and the

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in 1969. McLaren was Senior Engineer and later President of Western Canada Hydraulic Laboratories, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, from 1975 to 1991. His publications and presentations include: * Evaluation and Testing of Pumps and Separators for Arctic Oilspill Cleanup Technology * Testing of A.P.I. Separator under Simulated Sea Conditionsibid. * Wave Forces on a Seawater Intake Structure * Fluorometric Sand Tracing * Simulation of Landslide-generated Wavesibid. Scroll to pages 71-72 and 117 of 120 pages. Retrieved September 24, 2021. * Sand Movement Study on Fraser River Foreshore * Modelling of Flow through a Mine Waste Dump * Effect of Varying Design Parameters for Caisson Floating Breakwaters2nd International Conference on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries, Beijing, 1987
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