throughout the world and has presented numerous invited talks, including the 2006 AIAA Fluid Dynamics meeting, the 2003 American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, and the 2001 Australasian Fluid Mechanics meeting, among others.. Among his fellowships, honors and awards, the most recent are the 2008 Freeman Scholar Award from the ASME, the 2008 DCAMM scholar award from the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, and the Ph.D. Supervisor of the Year award from Chalmers University in 2006. He was also a distinguished research fellow of the British Royal Engineering Academy and CNRS. Together with a former student and grandstudent, he received the Robert T. Knapp Award from the ASME Fluids Engineering Division 2002 for the best paper in 2001. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1988. He is also a Fellow of the ASME and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. From 2010 to 2012 he was named by the EU as Marie Curie Professor at Imperial College of London, and since has retained an appointment there as senior research investigator. For the academic year 2013-2014 he was William R. Kenan Jr Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. George (Bill) has a wife, April Howard, and two children, Robert (deceased) and Tony. His hobbies have varied throughout his career. After moving to Buffalo in 1974 he became an avid skier and sailor. When a broken back in 1983 left him with a partially paralyzed leg and ended his beloved cross-country skiing, he took up down-hill skiing and dog-sledding. And while his children were small, for about a decade in the 1980s they managed a small farm with over 100 animals including cows, pigs, chickens and goats. He also holds an Amateur Extra ham radio license. After winning several local trophies for racing a Shark 24 sailboat in the late 1980s, he trained to become an off-shore sailor in the early 1990s. In 1995, he and April (both licensed USCG captains) completed a transatlantic in their sailboat, a Vancouver 42 named WINGS. Since then they have sailed extensively throughout Northern Europe, often with PhD students aboard. Frequently they have lived aboard ship, including the first year when moving to Sweden and during visiting academic appointments, and most recently at St. Katharines Dock and Limehouse Basin in London. Since 2011 they have split their time between Europe and the 1929 home they inherited in