Current Research: Transport
in San Francisco Bay's Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta
Advisors: Profs. Oliver
Fringer and Stephen Monismith
Coastal contaminants pose health risks for the multitudes of people around the world living in coastal areas. Knowledge of a pollutant's transport and fate is the first step needed before remediation efforts can commence. My research focuses on understanding the physical factors that determine the spatial and temporal location of contaminants. This involves understanding the fluid dynamics of estuarine transport and dispersion, numerical methods, and algorithms. I am currently focusing on understanding secondary flows and dispersion in curved channels and junctions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the key conduit of nearly half of California's water.
Education
Ph.D. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, expected 2013
M.S. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2009
B.S., summa cum laude , in Engineering-Civil, Colorado School
of Mines, 2008
Contact Information
pwolfram "at" stanford "dot" edu
Phone: (720) 234-5831
Phillip J Wolfram Jr.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology
Program
Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Stanford University
The Jerry Yang & Akiko
Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building
473 Via
Ortega, Office M-17
Stanford, CA 94305