Professor Miguel Mariño

EDUCATION
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
HONORS AND AWARDS
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
AREAS OF TECHNICAL COMPETENCE
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
REFEREED REPORTS
REPORTS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEMINARS, SYMPOSIA, AND CONFERENCES
CHAIRPERSON/ORGANIZER OF SESSIONS AT CONFERENCES
EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR PROMOTION OF FACULTY
REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL/BOOK MANUSCRIPTS AND RESEARCH PROPOSALS
Ph.D. SUPERVISION
M.S. SUPERVISION
HOSTING SCIENTISTS/ENGINEERS ON SABBATICAL LEAVES
TEACHING

EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR PROMOTION OF FACULTY:
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado
University of Connecticut
University of Houston
University of Idaho
University of Illinois
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Massachusetts
University of Utah
University of Virginia
Louisiana State University
Texas A & M University
Colorado State University
McMaster University
Rice University
Rutgers University
Virginia Tech
The City University of New York
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Griffith University, Australia
Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan
REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL/BOOK MANUSCRIPTS AND RESEARCH PROPOSALS:
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Academic Press
Marcel Dekker, Inc.
ASCE Books
National Science Foundation
International Science Foundation
UNESCO
Water Resources Research
Journal of Environmental Engineering
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Journal of Hydrology
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Advances in Water Resources
Hydrological Sciences Journal
Nordic Hydrology
Journal of Mathematical Geology
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Water Resources Bulletin
European Journal of Operational Research
Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Journal of Engineering Mathematics
Environmental Science and Technology
U.S. Geological Survey (UCOWR)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Water Resources Assessment and Protection Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Small Business Innovation Research Program
University of California Water Resources Center
U.C. Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program
California Sea Grant College Program
Soil Science Society of America Journal
California Agriculture
Journal of Production Agriculture
National Geographic Society
Australian Research Grants Committee
Australian Research Council
Australian National University Supercomputer Facility
Chilean Research Council
Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering
Iranian Journal of Science and Technology
Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation
Water Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Agro-Ciencia, Chile
Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Spain
Idaho Board of Education
NIGEC, South Central Regional Center
Scientia Iranica
Australian Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
Ph.D. SUPERVISION

George B. Matanga, “Application of Optimization and Simulation Techniques to Irrigation Management,” 1977. Currently with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Richard H. Cuenca, “Transferable Simulation Model for Crop Soil Water Depletion,” 1978. Currently a professor at Oregon State University.

Abbas Afshar, “An Integrated Study of a Wastewater Disposal Plan,” 1979. Currently a professor and administrator at Iran University of Science and Technology.

Ahmad Abrishamchi, “Dynamic Planning in Wastewater Treatment Management,” 1979. Currently a professor at Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Slobodan P. Simonovic, “Reservoir Systems Planning and Design by Reliability Programming,” 1981. Currently a professor and administrator at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Mohamed Aboufirassi, “Identification of Transmissivities in Yolo Basin, California: A Geostatistical Approach,” 1982. Currently founder and owner of RESING Consulting Engineers in Marrakech, Morocco.

Behzad Mohammadi, “Real-Time Operation Models for Large-Scale Hydrosystems,” 1982. Currently a consulting engineer in Agoura, California.

Gilles G. Patry, “Real-Time Forecasting of Water Quantity and Quality in Urban Catchments,” 1983. Currently a professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Hidayat Pawitan, “Space-Time Models of Rainfall Fields at Ground Level,” 1983. Currently a professor at the University of Indonesia.

Eduardo A. Holzapfel, “Selection and Design of Surface Irrigation Methods,” 1984. Currently a professor and administrator at the University of Concepcion, Chile.

Jesus Chavez-Morales, “An Optimization and Simulation Methodology for Irrigation Planning,” 1985. Currently a professor at Colegio de Postgraduados in Montecillo, Mexico.

Hugo A. Loaiciga,“Real-Time Forecasting and Control for Flood Routing via Reservoir Operation,” 1986. Currently a professor at the University of California , Santa Barbara.

Lawrence E. Flynn, “Optimal Design and Operation of Water Delivery and Storage Systems,” 1987. Currently at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland.

David M. Goldman, “Estimating Runoff Prediction Uncertainty Using a Physically-Based Stochastic Watershed Model,” 1987. Currently at Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

John C. Tracy, “A Model for the Management of Crop Irrigation and Soil Salinity,” 1989. Currently a professor and administrator at the University of Idaho.

Seyed-Alireza Taghavi-Shirazi, “Groundwater Quality Management Using Optimal Control Theory,” 1991. Currently co-owner and co-founder of Water Resources Information and Management Engineers, Inc., Sacramento, California.

Fethi Ben-Jemaa, “Optimal Design and Analysis of Groundwater Monitoring Networks,” 1992. Currently with the California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento.

Mohamed M. Hantush, “Stochastic Analysis and Optimal Estimation in Groundwater,” 1993. Currently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tahir Hameed, “Water Management Under Uncertain Conditions,” 1994. Currently with the New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation, Australia.

Mohammad N. Cheema, “Design and Operation of Alluvial Channels from the Principles of Sediment Transport,” 1994. Currently with Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, Australia.

Hakan Basagaoglu, “Development of Conjunctive Management and Soil Pesticide Transport Models,” 2000. Currently with Idaho National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls.

Adunias D. Teixeira, “Dynamic Programming Model for Quasi-Real Time Reservoir Operation and Irrigation Scheduling,” 2000. Currently a professor at Federal University of Ceará, Brazil.

Stuart W. Styles, “Water Delivery Service as a Determinant of Irrigation Project Performance,” 2000. Currently a professor and administrator at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Hakan Sirin, “Nonequilibrium Sorption Under Physical and Chemical Heterogeneity,” 2001. Currently a professor at Anadolu University, Turkey.

Hideo Nakajima, “Centrifuge Modeling of LNAPL Movement in the Vadose Zone,” 2002. Currently with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.

Xuefeng Chu, “Integrated Pesticide Transport Modeling in Surface and Subsurface Environments,” 2002. Currently a professor at Grand Valley State University, Michigan.

M.S. SUPERVISION

Mohamed Aboufirassi
Bryan Largay
Ahmad Abrishamchi
Keith Larson
Ali Abrishamchi
Thomas Lin
Abbas Afshar
Hugo Loaiciga
Michael Archer
Babs Makinde-Odusola
Naser Batini
Said Masoudi
Barbara Bauer
Arash Massoudieh
Monique Beaumon
Miguel Mejia
Flavio Bonilla
Loren Metzger
Daniel Brogadir
Randall Moory
Guillermo Cabrera
Armin Munevar
Il Whan Chung
Brian O’Brien
Anne Marie Collins
Jeffrey Olsen
Sean Eagan
Nathan Pingel
Gregory Eldridge
Stanley Powell
James Fairchild
Hamad Rajhi
Stephen Ferry
Gerald Robb
John Fio
William Scharffenberg
Wilton Fryer
Lawrence Schwankl
Ali Ghorbanzadeh
James Seyfried
Pedro Gonzalez
Francesca Somma
Randolph Grose
Yutaka Sumita
Alberto Guinand
Alireza Taghavi
Jake Gusman
John Tracy
Mohamed Hantush
Miguel Turcios
Hendi Hassan
Donald Walker
Ines Hatton
Eugene Yates
Janice Hubbard
Amanollah Zareai
Jonathan Ingersoll
Rich Juricich

 

HOSTING SCIENTISTS/ENGINEERS ON SABBATICAL LEAVES

Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sudan, and Turkey.

TEACHING


Since 1972, I have developed and taught the following undergraduate and graduate courses

Civil Engineering 144: Groundwater Systems Design (3). Groundwater occurrence, distribution and exploration. Quality of groundwater. Steady and non-steady groundwater hydraulics. Water wells, drilling methods, design criteria and specifications, construction and maintenance. Aquifer management, safe yield and overdraft. Artificial recharge. Conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater. Introduction to groundwater modeling.

Civil Engineering 273: Analysis of Groundwater Systems (3). Groundwater motion theory and applications. Analysis of transient groundwater flow problems including flow to fully- and partially-penetrating wells, unconfined, nonleaky and leaky artesian aquifers. Multiple well systems. Identification of aquifer parameters. Artificial recharge, spreading basins, recharging wells.

Civil Engineering 272A: Advanced Groundwater Hydrology (3). Flow in confined, unconfined, and leaky aquifers. Hydraulics of pumping and recharging wells. Identification of aquifer parameters. Groundwater quality problems.

Civil Engineering 272B: Advanced Groundwater Hydrology (3). Numerical methods of fluid flow systems. Flow in the unsaturated zone. Hydrodynamic dispersion. Fresh-water and salt-water interface in coastal aquifers. Identification of regional aquifer parameters. Modeling of aquifer systems.

Civil Engineering 273: Water Resource Systems Engineering (3). Planning, design, and management of water resource systems. Application of deterministic and stochastic optimization techniques. Water allocation, capacity expansion, and design and operation of reservoir systems. Surface water and groundwater management.

Water Science 149/Water Science 149A: Groundwater Hydrology (3). Occurrence, distribution, and movement of groundwater. Steady and transient groundwater-flow systems. Aquifer tests. Well construction, operation, and maintenance. Groundwater exploration, quality, and contamination.

Water Science 205: Water-Resource Systems Analysis: Deterministic Models (3). Applications of deterministic linear and dynamic programming techniques to water-resource systems design. Allocation of aqueduct and reservoir capacities, conjunctive surface and groundwater systems. Sequencing of water supply projects.

Water Science 207: Water-Resource Systems Analysis: Stochastic Models (3). Applications of stochastic linear and dynamic programming, Markov chains, and inventory theory to water-resource systems design. Design and operating policy models of reservoirs. Water quality management models.

Water Science 206: Water-Resource Systems Analysis (3). Applications of deterministic and stochastic mathematical programming techniques to water resource planning, analysis, and design. Water allocation, capacity expansion, and reservoir operation. Conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater. Water quality management. Irrigation planning and operation models.

Hydrologic Sciences 144/Biological & Agricultural Engineering 144: Groundwater Hydrology (4). Fundamentals of groundwater flow and contaminant hydrology. Occurrence, distribution, and movement of groundwater. Well-flow systems. Aquifer tests. Well construction, operation and maintenance. Groundwater exploration and quality assessment. Agricultural threats to groundwater quality: fertilizers, pesticides, and salts.

Hydrologic Sciences 243/Biological & Agricultural Engineering 243: Water Resource Planning and Management (3). Applications of deterministic and stochastic mathematical programming techniques to water resource planning, analysis, design, and management. Water allocation, capacity expansion, and reservoir operation. Conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater. Water quality management. Irrigation planning and operation models.