Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology Vision Person capable of modeling the entire system! air-land fluxes fluid/ structure interactions air-water fluxes Surface wave processes surface water fluxes ground water fluxes fluid transport processes benthic-water fluxes/ Sediment transport

Fundamental Gap in Mission Area, School, College, and University in Multi-Scale, Non-Linear Complex Environmental Systems Modeling Capabilities With the increasing power of computers 3-D physical simulations of complex environmental systems is possible This field is fundamental to the formation of interdisciplinary teams as the modeling of environmental flux paths is the critical non-linear linkage between environmental biogeochemical components

Fundamental Skills this Person Would Bring: Expert in efficient computational solution of multi-scale (orders of magnitude differences in scales) non-linear physical systems

Fundamental Skills this Person Might Bring: The use of real-time data assimilation to guide computational now-cast modeling Solution of stiff linear systems Solution of stochastic non-linear and linear environment systems (i.e., stochastic hydrologists, turbulent transport)

Funded Research Program The foundation of interdisciplinary NSF type research proposals Biocomplexity and the Environment (BE) Information Technology Research (ITR) Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry (EGB)

Core Teaching Competencies this Person Might Posses ENGRD 241 CEE 331 Computational solution of linear and non-linear PDE’s Computational solution of stochastic PDE’s Data assimilation