David L. Freyberg Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences (by courtesy) Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment (by courtesy) Hydrologic Processes; Water Resources Engineering; Engineering Pedagogy

A.B. (1972) and B.E. (1972) Dartmouth College
M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) Stanford University

David Freyberg's diverse research interests include understanding and managing the uncertainty in predicting subsurface hydrologic phenomena, flood wave propagation in and infiltration and recharge from ephemeral channels in arid and semmi-arid environments, sediment management in small reservoirs, and engineering pedagogy. He and his students have studied rainfall variability in Nigeria; flowfields around partially penetrating injection wells; field-scale experimental validation of models of flow and transport in aquifers; head, velocity, and concentration uncertainty in heterogeneous aquifers; enhanced numerical analysis techniques for simulating reactive, multicomponent transport in aquifers; the characterization of spatial variability in natural geologic media and the construction of synthetic aquifers; the effects of state-dependendent anisotropy on flow through the vadose zone; and the role of diffusion and slow advection in transport through heterogeneous, saturated porous media. Professor Freyberg was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1993 he received the Stanford School of Engineering Tau Beta Pi Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and in 1994 he received a Stanford Unversity Bing Fellowship for teaching excellence. He is currently the Landreth Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. From 1988-1992 he served as Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education. He is the past chair of the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board. He is a co-author of the widely-used text, Water-Resources Engineering.

Teaching	Prof. Freyberg currently teaches 6 courses:
	Autumn Quarter: Winter Quarter: Spring Quarter:	CEE 166A/266A, Watersheds and Wetlands CEE 166B/266B, Floods and Droughts, Dams and Aqueducts CEE 166D/266D, Water Resources and Water Hazards Field Trips CEE 169, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Design CEE 266C, Advanced Topics in Hydrology and Water Resources CEE 333, Water Policy Colliquium
	Prof. Freyberg also currently team-teaches two other courses:
	Spring Quarter: Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters:	ESys 189, Field Studies in Earth Systems IIS 195, Interschool Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy (Goldman Honors Program)
	Websites for each class are available for enrolled students on CourseWork. Each contains considerable information about the most recent version of the course, including the syllabus, texts, assignments, etc. The links above for each course take you to the class notes for the first day of class, which provide an overview of the goals, content and organization of each.
Current Ph.D. Students
	Kate Brauman, Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental and Resources Herrin Labs 420 (650) 736-8313, kbrauman_at_stanford_dot_edu See http://iper.stanford.edu/research/brauman.html for more information about Kate and her interests. Research Topic: Hydrologic ecosystem services; physical, biological, and social challenges of dam removal Presentations: The Value of Forest and Pasture to Water Supply in Kona, HI. Fall AGU 2005 May Chui, Civil and Environmental Engineering The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building EFML (650) 725-5948, maychui_stanford_dot_edu Research Topic: Modeling the hydrologic interactions between an aging reservoir and the surrounding groundwater There are many aging surface-water reservoirs world-wide and Searsville Reservoir, located within Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve at Stanford University is one example. Given the many benefits but also the potential problems that aging reservoirs create, there are strong motivations to better understand their hydrologic systems for management and investment decisions. However, there remain many challenges because the interactions between surface-water reservoirs and the groundwater in the accumulated sediment are very complex and dynamic. The goal of my research is to enhance our understanding of groundwater-reservoir systems through numerical modeling, with Searsville Reservoir as a case study.  Presentations: Hydrologic Interactions Between an Aging Reservoir and the Surrounding Groundwater Fall AGU, 2006 Jun Young Kim, Civil and Environmental Engineering The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building EFML Mezzanine, Room M-18 gunsnros_at_stanford_dot_edu Jake Krall, Civil and Environmental Engineering The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building EFML Mezzanine, Room M-17 krall_at_stanford_dot_edu Michele Minihane, Civil and Environmental Engineering minihane_at_stanford_dot_edu Michele is interested in the relationship between urban development and local water resources. She is using field characterization methods and numerical experiments to explore the role of the vadose zone in groundwater vulnerability for different urban development scenarios. The title of her dissertation is "Implications of Urban Development Patterns for Subsurface Moisture Flow Paths in Tropical Sandy Coastal Areas." Presentations: Shallow Subsurface Fluxes in Coastal Tropical Constructed Fill Areas. Fall AGU 2005

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Contact Information
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
473 Via Ortega, Room 257, MC 4020
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Voice: 650-723-3234 FAX: 650-725-9720
freyberg@stanford.edu

Administrative Associate
Ms. Jill Nomura
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
473 Via Ortega, Room 126, MC 4020
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Voice: 650-723-4372 FAX: 650-725-9720
jmn@stanford.edu

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