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Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology |
B.S. (1974)
M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1978)
Peter K. Kitanidis specializes in the
analysis of data and the development and implementation of mathematical models
that describe and predict flow and transport rates in the environment. He has
devised methods for the analysis of spatially distributed hydrologic and
water-quality data, the calibration of groundwater models, and the optimization
of sampling and control strategies when the available information is
incomplete. He is active in the study of mixing processes in groundwater and
the development of cost-effective enhanced in-situ remediation methods. He has
been investigating how the heterogeneous nature of hydrogeochemical variables
affects the net rates of flow and transport at hydrologic scales. He has also
developed methods for real-time forecasting of river flows, for which he
received the L. G. Straub
Award in 1979, and has studied the mechanics of meandering rivers. He has
participated in AGU, ASCE, and National Research Council technical committees.
He was a recipient in 1994 of the W. L.
Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize and was recognized in 2001 as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He was the 2011 Pioneers in Groundwater
Lecturer, bestowed by ASCE. He also
received the 2011 Hydrologic Sciences Award, from AGU’s Hydrology Section. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of
Hydrology. Peter K. Kitanidis is also
faculty at the Institute for Computational
and Mathematical Engineering.
Research:
Peter K. Kitanidis is currently active
in the following areas of research:
(a) Field-scale
dilution and mixing of chemicals, especially in the context of studying natural
attenuation and natural or accelerated in-situ
bioremediation.
(b) Problems
of scaling up transport and transformation equations and parameters, such as
deriving Darcy- and field-scale parameters for reactive solutes.
(c) Site
characterization, solution of interpolation and inverse problems,
geostatistics, utilization of geophysical methods, and other estimation
problems.
Civil and Environmental
473 Via Ortega
Tel.: (650)
723-8321, Fax: (650) 725-9720
E-mail: peterk at stanford dot edu
Book:
Introduction to Geostatistics
Links To: Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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