Current Research: Contaminant Transport
in San Francisco Bay
Advisors: Drs. Oliver Fringer
& Richard Luthy
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 and chemical factors determining the spatial and temporal location of a contaminant. This involves understandingthe fluid dynamics of estuarine transport and dispersion, contaminant chemistry, numerical methods, and algorithms. Currently, I am studying emerging contaminant fate and transport in Sunnyvale, located in south San Francisco Bay with collaborator Sarah Rubinfeld, a PhD student of Prof. Richard Luthy.
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