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Education:
Stanford University, 1976-1981 |
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| Dartmouth College, 1967-1972 A.B., 1972 (Engineering Science) B.E., 1972 (Environmental Engineering) |
Employment History:
| 2007 - present | Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University | |
| 2000 - present | Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University | |
| 1998 - 2007 | Senior Fellow, Center for Enviromental Science and Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University | |
| 1988 - present | Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | |
| 1988 - 1992 | Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, School of Engineering, Stanford University | |
| 1980 - 1988 | Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University | |
| 1972 - 1975 | Engineer, Project Engineer, and Project Manager, Water Resources Management Department, | |
| Anderson-Nichols and Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts |
Teaching Experience (Course titles):
Stochastic Hydrology; Watershed Hydrology; Soil Moisture and Groundwater; Hydrologic Modeling; Water Resources Development; Introductory Fluid Mechanics; Hydrology & Water Resources; Multiphase Flow in the Subsurface; Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Design; Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology; Watersheds and Wetlands; Floods and Droughts, Dams and Aqueducts; Water Resources and Water Hazards Field Trips; Advanced Topics in Hydrology and Water Resources; Water Policy Seminar; Interschool Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy; The Nature of Engineering (frosh seminar).
Current Research Areas: Hydrology of wetland ecosystems; valuation of hydrologic ecosystem services; recharge to ground water through tropical soils; reservoir sedimentation; the exchange of water between reservoirs and their trapped sediments; the fate of old, sediment-impacted dams and the prediction of responses to their removal; the pedagogy of fluid mechanics, engineering design, and distance learning.
Research Experience, Grants, and Contracts:
Principal investigator, City
of Daly City, “Potential
Research Needs Related to Groundwater Quality: Westside Groundwater Basin,
San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, CA, 2005-06”.
Co-principal investigator, Singapore Science and Engineering
Research Council, National Science and Technology Board, “Clean Water
Programme”, 2003-06.
Principal investigator (with one other), Packard Foundation, “Long-term Conservation of Open Water Habitat in Searsville Lake,” 1998-2000.
Principal investigator (with one other), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Diffusional Rate Limitations in Heterogeneous Porous Media: Model Structure, Scale, and Geologic Characterization," 1995-1999.
Principal investigator, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, “Watershed Data Structure” and “Grid-Network Hydrologic Model,” 1992-93.
Principal investigator (with 4 others), San Francisco Estuary Project (EPA), "Freshwater Flows in the San Francisco Estuary: Impact of Variability upon Estuarine Fluid Dynamics and Some Ecological Processes," 1991-1992.
Principal investigator (with one other), California Water Resources Center, "Adaptive Grid Refinement for Groundwater Contaminant Transport Simulation", 1989-91.
Principal investigator (with one other), Electric Power Research Institute, "FASTCHEM Applications and Sensitivity Analysis", 1989-1991.
Principal investigator, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, "Mathematical Modeling of Groundwater Transport in Complex Environments", 1985-1990.
Co-principal investigator, U.S. - Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, "Water Resources Management for Reducing Environmental Pollution", 1984-1989.
Co-principal investigator, U.S. EPA Cooperative Agreement "Evaluation of Ground Water Contamination Risks Resulting from Hazardous Waste Disposal", 1981-85.
Dissertation: "Models of Surface-Subsurface Flow Interaction in an Ephemeral Channel."
Consulting Experience:
Sea Water Intrusion and Water Supply, Marina, CA; Groundwater Contamination Studies, Santa Clara Valley, CA and Glen Avon, CA; Flood Insurance Studies; Flood Plain Information Reports; Basin-wide Flood Hydrology, Delaware River Basin; Systems Analysis of Reservoir Flood Damage Mitigation, Susquehanna River Basin; Nonstructural Flood Plain Management Techniques
Honors and Awards:
A.B., Magna Cum Laude, with Distinction in Engineering Science
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science
Foundation, 1985-1990
Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching, 1993
Bing Teaching Fellowship Award, 1994
Landreth Family University Fellow in Undergraduate
Education, 2002-07
Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Water
Resources Research, 2002
Professional Memberships, Service, and Registration:
American Geophysical Union
Associate Editor, Water Resources Research,1988-1990
Member, Langbein Lecture Committee, 1995-98
Member, Horton Award Committee
Member, Groundwater Committee, 1988-1990
Member, Hydrology Section Executive Committee,
1994-1997
Manuscript reviewer, Water Resources Research
American Society of Civil Engineers
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal of Infrastructure
Systems
American Society for Engineering Education
American Water Resources Association
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of the American
Water Resources Association
American Water Works Association
CALFED Bay-Delta Science Program
Environmental Water Account (EWA), Technical Review
Committee, 2001-2005
Proposal Solicitation Package (PSP) Final Selection
Panel, 2004
Delta Vision Assessment Team, 2007
Independent Science Board of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, 2003-2006
Delta Regional Ecosystem Restoration Implementation Plan (DRERIP), Ecosystem
Element Conceptual Models Review Panel,
2007
Bay-Delta Conservation Plan Science Advisors, 2007
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI)
Member, Science Committee, 2002
Host and Convener, Western Regional CUAHSI Science
Workshop, 2002
Stanford representative, 2007-present
Board of Directors, 2008-present
National Ground Water Association
Manuscript reviewer, Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation
National Research Council
Water Sciences and Technology Board, 1991-1997,
Chair, 1994-1997
Committee
on Ground Water Modeling Assessment
Committee
on National Water Quality Assessment
Board on Engineering Education, 1991-1994
National Science Foundation
Hydrologic Sciences Review Panel, 1996-98
Member, Committee of Visitors, Earth Sciences
Division, 2002
Proposal reviewer, Hydrologic Sciences Program
San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, Technical Advisory Committee,
San Francisquito Creek Watershed Analysis and Sediment Reduction Plan, 2002-03
Lorenz G. Straub Award Committee, University of Minnesota, 1997-2000
Stanford Alumni Association
Travel Study: College on the Great Lakes, 1995; College in Belgium
and on the Dutch Waterways, 1997; Panama Canal College, 1998; Alaska Family Adventure,
2001; Amazon and Machu Picchu Family Adventure, 2003; Amazon Expedition, 2007.
Engineer-in-Training, Massachusetts
Thesis Supervision:
O. Yoloye, A Model for Synthetic Rainfall Generation in West Africa, Engineer, 1986.
V. Hromadko, Vertical Gradients Induced by Injection Through Multiple Partially Penetrating Wells in an Unconfined Aquifer, Engineer, 1986.
T. C. Black, Concentration Uncertainty for Stochastic Analysis of Solute Transport in a Bounded, Heterogeneous Domain, Ph.D., 1988.
T. D. Scheibe, Characterization of the Spatial Structuring of Natural Porous Media and Its Impacts on Subsurface Flow and Transport, Ph.D., 1992
A. D. Ronan, Velocity Uncertainty Estimation for Groundwater Transport Prediction, Ph.D., 1993.
A. V. Wolfsberg, Efficient Simulation of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater with Local Adaptive Grid Refinement, Ph.D., 1993.
T. R. Green, The Roles of Moisture-Dependent Anisotropy and Landscape Topography in Soil-Water Flow and Groundwater Recharge, Ph.D., 1994.
A. J. Guswa, Modeling Solute Transport: Tailing Due to Low Permeability Lenses, Ph.D., 2000.
M. Wiley, Signal Information Available for Plume Source Tracking With and Without Surface Waves and Learning by Undergraduates Assisting with the Research, Ph.D., 2003.
A. Stewart, Temperature Based Estimates of Streamflow Patterns and Seepage Losses in Ephemeral Channels, Ph.D., 2003.