CURRICULUM VITA
DAVID L. FREYBERG

 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Room 257, Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, MC 4020
473 Via Ortega Stanford, California
Telephone: 650 723-3234
Fax: 650 725-9720
E-mail: freyberg_at_stanford_dot_edu
       88 Peter Coutts Circle
Stanford, CA 94305-2513
(650) 493-8256
   

Education:

Stanford University, 1976-1981
Ph.D., 1981 (Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Hydromechanics)
M.S., 1977 (Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Hydromechanics)

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.