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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 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 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.
Research:
Peter 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
Other Affiliations:
Institute for Mathematical and
Computational Engineering.
Links To: Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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