CURRICULUM VITA
DAVID L. FREYBERG

Department of Civil Engineering88 Peter Coutts Circle
Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2513
Stanford, California 94305-4020 (650) 493-8256
Telephone: (650) 723-3234 
Fax: (650) 725-9720 
E-mail: freyberg@stanford.edu  

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:

 1988 - present Associate Professor, Department of Civil 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:

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 Studies Design; The Nature of Engineering.

Research Experience, Grants, and Contracts:

Principal investigator (with one other), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Diffusional Rate Limitations in Heterogeneous Porous Media: Model Structure, Scale, and Geologic Characterization," 1995-1998.
Principal investigator, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Watershed Data Structure" and "Grid-Network Hydrologic Model," 1992-93. Investigation of the application of GIS data structures and algorithms to hydrologic modeling of rainfall-runoff processes.
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. Development, analysis, and testing of adaptive numerical techniques forsimulating transport of reactive contaminants in groundwater.
Principal investigator (with one other), Electric Power Research Institute, "FASTCHEM Applications and Sensitivity Analysis", 1989-1991. Testing of complex reactive contaminant transport package, studies of parameter sensitivity, and development of auxiliary data analysis tools.
Principal investigator, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, "Mathematical Modeling of Groundwater Transport in Complex Environments", 1985-1990. Studies of parameter uncertainty, spatial variability, and complex solution chemistry in groundwater transport modeling.
Co-principal investigator, U.S. - Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, "Water Resources Management for Reducing Environmental Pollution", 1984-1989. Studies of multicomponent mass transport in groundwater and water quality sampling network design.
Co-principal investigator, U.S. EPA Cooperative Agreement "Evaluation of Ground Water Contamination Risks Resulting from Hazardous Waste Disposal", 1981-85. Studies of contaminant transport in spatially variable porousmedia and the experimental validation of mathematical transport models.
Dissertation: "Models of Surface-Subsurface Flow Interaction in an Ephemeral Channel."

Consulting Experience:

Flood Levee Failure, Pajaro, CA; 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, 1985-1990
Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1993
Bing Teaching Fellowship Award, 1994

Professional Memberships, Service, and Registration:

American Society of Civil Engineers
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-present
American Water Resources Association
National Ground Water Association
American Society for Engineering Education
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
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 Flowand 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.