People
People
Students
Current Graduate students
Audric Collignon
Research focus on fluid-particles interactions and turbulence in environmental flows.
Mary Cousins
Research on the influence of seasonal, salt-based stratification on nutrient loading in a shallow coastal lagoon.
Megan Daniels
Research interests include flow over complex terrain, Large-Eddy Simulation, land-surface interactions, coupled hydrologic modeling, and mesoscale atmospheric dynamics.
Maureen Downing Kunz
Research focuses on transport of rafting vegetation in the coastal environment, and its implications for biological dispersion
Rebecca Leonardson
Research focus on the dynamics of sand and silt in gravel riverbeds in order to improve management of aquatic ecosystems.
Katherine Lundquist
Research interests are in large-eddy simulations (LES) of atmospheric boundary layer flow, with a focus on numerical methods, turbulence modeling, and improved surface boundary conditions for flow over complex terrain such as urban or mountainous regions.
Lissa MacVean
Research focuses on lateral exchange between an estuary and its perimeter, and the effects of this exchange on dispersion of scalars such as salt, sediment, and contaminants
Kyle Pressel
Research focuses on computational fluid mechanics, in particular large eddy simulations and adaptive mesh refinement.
Jehan Rihani
Research focus on the two-way feedback between the subsurface, land-surface, and the atmosphere by performing fully coupled simulations of idealized and real systems.
Rudi Schuech
Research focus on the interactions between organisms and the fluid environment, as well as other areas of biofluid dynamics.
Wayne Wagner
Research interests are in physical processes in estuaries and how mixing processes of temperature, salt, and sediment affect the ecosystem.
Andreas Brand
Research focus on the interaction between water flow and sediment dynamics and its ecological consequences in lakes and estuaries.
Current Post-Doc
Rusty Holleman
Numerical modeling of estuarine restoration efforts and their effects on mixing and sediment dynamics.
Cristina Poindexter
Research focus on sediment transport, turbulence, hydrodynamics in natural systems, biometeorology and EcoSan
Megan Williams
Current research focuses on the dynamics of stratified flow over bathymetry.
Bowen Zhou
Research focus on computational fluid mechanics, using large eddy simulations for the atmospheric boundary layer.
Former Graduate students
Seungjin Baek
Consultant at Phil Williams & Associates
The role of atmospheric forcing in determining transport in a shallow tidal lagoon (Ph.D. 2006)
Jon Fram
Postdoctral researcher at UCSB
Exchange at the estuary-ocean interface: Fluxes through the Golden Gate Channel (Ph.D. 2005)
Maureen Martin
Consultant at Stetson Engineers
David Ralston
Assistant Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Hydrodynamics and scalar transport in subtidal channels through intertidal mudflats (Ph.D. 2005)
Stefan Talke
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington
Former Post-Docs
Matt Brennan
Consultant at Phil Williams & Associates
Assistant Professor at the University of Virgina
Nikola Marjanovic
Research focuses on numerical simulation of atmospheric flows in the environment.
Ian Tse
Research focuses on the dynamics of particle laden flows in the environment using experimental techniques; ultimately to understand their implications in sediment transport, water treatment, and ecology.
