Research Staff
Carolyn Remick
Background: Carolyn Remick brings to the Berkeley Water Center more that 15 years of experience working on California and Nevada water issues. She has held senior management positions at non-profit organizations and consulting firms. Her areas of expertise are inter-agency coordination on habitat restoration and developing incentives for habitat and water quality improvements on private lands. Carolyn was raised in Oakland, California. She received her B.S. degree from U.C. Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and M.S. degree in Geography from the University of Nevada.
Contact information:
Executive Director
Berkeley Water Center
University of California, Berkeley
413B O'Brien Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1718
remick@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510.642.5322
Dr. Newsha Ajami
Background: Newsha Ajami is currently a post doctorate researcher at Berkeley Water center. Dr. Ajami finished her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Her Doctoral research was focused on the improved assessment of uncertainty in hydrological modeling using Bayes theorem. She also developed different multi model combination techniques in order to improve the flood forecasting and management of water resources. She received her Masters of Science in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona studying the development and calibration of distributed hydrologic models and her Bachelors in Civil and Environmental engineering from the University of Tehran Poly Technique, Tehran, Iran.
Research Interests: Surface water hydrology; uncertainty assessment in environmental predictions; water resources management under uncertainty; remote sensing data and its application in hydrology and water resources management; distributed and semi-distributed rainfall-runoff modeling; multi-model combination techniques; policy involved Earth system sciences; and sustainable design. One of her goals is to spend more time on building a bridge between the scientific community and policy makers by performing multidisciplinary research.
At BWC Dr. Ajami is part of the CAL 2030 project. The idea is to develop an integrated platform for sustainable and efficient management of water resources in the state of California for the years to come.
Contact information:
Berkeley Water Center
University of California
612 Davis Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1718
newshaajami@berkeley.edu
Mobile: 949.466.1929
Dr. Olli-Pekka Tossavainen
Background: Olli-Pekka Tossavainen received his PhD in Physics in May 2007 from the Univeristy of Kupio, Finland. He earned his MSc in medical physics in December 2003 from the University of Kupio as well. During the course of his graduate studies, he developed new image reconstruction methods for elecetrical impedence tomography using shape estimation techniques. Methods include, air-liquid and oil-liquid interfaces in industrial pipes. He also developed a method for sedimentation monitoring in industrial settling tanks.
Research Interests: At BWC Dr. Tossavainen is working within the College of Engineering on projects including inverse modeling for Lagrangian data in distributed parameter systems which has applicaiton to hyperbolic PDEs. He is also working on developing algorithms aimed at providing optimal sensor placement on highways to determine traffic flow pattern.
Contact information:
Dr. Olli-Pekka Tossavainen
Berkeley Water Center
413 O'Brien Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-1718
http://bwc.berkeley.edu
optossav@berkeley.edu
Dr. Federico Maggi
Background: Frederico Maggi earned his MSc in Civil Engineering at the Polytechnique of Turin, Italy, where he studied the prediction and reconstruction of complex signals with non-linear techniques with application to hydrological processes. He obtained a PhD in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the Delft University of Technology with an experimental, theoretical and numerical study of the processes of aggregation and breakup of fine cohesive suspended particles with application to sediment transport and deposition and coastal engineering. Later, he joined the Pratt School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, North Carolina, as Researcher Associate, where he developed mathematical models for biological clogging of unsaturated porous media with applications to geobiochemistry and ecohydrology.
Current position: Dr. Maggi is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Berkeley Water Center (BWC), a joint oraganization established from the Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His project at BWC is focused on mathematical and numerical modeling of surface and subsurface chemical transport with coupled biogeochemistry, and coupled land-surface and subsurface water and energy balance
Research Interests: Research interestes include water resources and quality in the ecohydrological context; transport/flocculation/deposition of cohesive sediment, surface and subsurface multimedia/multiphase flows; coupled water flow and biomass dynamics, population dynamics; carbon and nitrogen dynamics and cycles in biogeochemical modeling; and land-soil-vegetation interaction.
Contact information:
Berkeley Water Center
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1718
fmaggi@berkeley.edu
Dr. Chuanhui Gu
Background: Dr. Chuanhui Gu is currently a Post Doctoral researcher at the Berkeley Water Center (BWC). Dr. Gu earned his PhD in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in 2007. Prior to that, he earned his MS in 2002 from the School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. His Doctoral research was focused on the hydrological control on inorganic nitrogen loading to coastal streams. He also developed and conducted experimental and modeling study to investigate the hillslope- scale nitrate reactive transport mechanisms across the multiple time scales from days to years.
His project at BWC is focused on mathematical modeling of surface and subsurface chemical transport with coupled Carbon and Nitrogen biogeochemistry, and coupled land-surface and subsurface water and energy balance.
Research Interests: Subsurface Hydrology; Groundwater-Surface water Interaction; Microbially Mediated Reactive Transport; Catchment Biogeochemistry; GHG emission; Nitrogen Cycle; Land, Soil, Vegetation interaction.
Contact information:
Dr. Chuanhui Gu
Berkeley Water Center
413 O'Brien Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-1718
cgu@berkeley.edu
