Stream hydraulics and fisheries restoration have been the focus of Dr. Newbury’s 40 year career.His fisheries research began as a Research Scientist with the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg in 1968  selecting lakes and developing day to day water budgets for experiments in the Experimental Lakes Area, Ontario. A  10 year study of northern lake flooding for hydro development was concluded in 1984 with a Special Publication on the Southern Indian Lake reservoir Can. J. Fish.Aquat. Sci. 41. A Research and demonstration project in the Federal-Provincial Wilson Creek Experimental Watershed and it’s downstream channel through agricultural lands led to the formation of the Riding Mountain National Park Biosphere Reserve. A similar project is underway on Dickson Brook in Fundy National Park.

In the last two decades, his research as focused on river restoration projects using “Newbury riffles” and other natural features to restore channelized rivers and streams. Projects have been built in several countries in cooperation with government agencies and an informal company formed in 1987, Newbury Hydraulics.

Bob currently conducts training workshops in Canada for Fisheries and Oceans and continues to teach an annual stream interpretation course for Environment Canada that has been held for over 30 years in western Canada. In addition to the annual graduate field course at UNB, short courses are held from time to time in Australia, Europe and the United States.