| Dennis B.
McLaughlin
H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Water Resource Management Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: (617) 253-7176
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| Dennis B.
McLaughlin
H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Water Resource Management Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: (617) 253-7176
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Education: |
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| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | PhD | June 1985 | |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | MSE | Oct. 1967 | |
| Purdue University | Lafayette, IN | BSEE | June 1966 | |
| Principal Fields of Interest: | |
| Ground Water Hydrology, Water Resource Systems, Environmental Data Assimilation | |
| Positions Held: | |||
| H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Water Resource Management
1984-present |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA | |
| Visiting Professor
1999 |
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Western Australia |
Perth, Australia | |
| Visiting Scientist
1998 |
Institute for Hydromechanics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Visiting Professor
1991-1992 |
Department of Economics
University of Western Australia |
Perth, Australia | |
| Visiting Scientist
1991-1992 |
CSIRO Division of Water Resources | Wembley, Australia | |
| Visiting Scientist
1992 |
TNO Institute of AppliedGeoscience | Delft,
The Netherlands |
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| Lecturer
1982 |
Department of Civil Engineering
University of California |
Davis, CA | |
| Principal
1975-1983 |
Resource Management Associates | Lafayette, CA | |
| Consulting Engineer
1973-1975 |
Water Resources Engineers | Walnut Creek, CA | |
| Consulting Engineer
1968-1972 |
The Analytic Sciences Corporation | Reading, MA | |
| Control Engineer
1967-1968 |
Raytheon Missile Systems Division | Wembley, Australia |
| Teaching: | |||
| Computing and Data Analysis for Environmental Applications | MIT 1.017 | 1999-present | |
| Water Resource Systems | MIT 1.731 | 1983-present | |
| Hydrologic Estimation and Prediction | MIT 1.732 | 1984-1996 | |
| Groundwater Modeling | MIT 1.724 | 1995-1996 | |
| Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology | MIT Summer Session 1.72S | 1995 | |
| Introduction
to Computers and Engineering
Problem Solving |
MIT 1.00 | 1994 | |
| Groundwater Hydrology | University of California, Davis | 1981 | |
| Recent Consulting: | |||
| Sandia National Laboratories | Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) performance assessment effort | 1990-1995 | |
| O'Melveny and Myers, Attorneys | Expert witness, subsurface contamination | 1995-1996 | |
| Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) | Analysis of water quality trends in Boston Harbor | 1995-1996 | |
| Institute of Applied Geosciences TNO, Delft, Netherlands | Characterization of groundwater and soil contamination | 1995-1996 | |
| O'Quinn and Laminack | Expert witness, groundwater contamination | 1996-1997 | |
| Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher | Expert witness, groundwater contamination | 1997 | |
| Recent Research Projects: | |||
| 1993-1997 | NSF Hydrologic Sciences Program | "An Investigation of Hydrologic Scale" | |
| 1993-1997 | NSF Environmental Engineering Program | "Characterization of Groundwater Contamination Before and After Remediation" | |
| 1993-1997 | EPA Robert S. Kerr Laboratory | "Development of a Data Evaluation/Decision Support System for Remediation of Subsurface Contamination" | |
| 1995-1997 | EPA Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center | "Characterization of Subsurface NAPL Distributions at Heterogeneous Field Sites" | |
| 1995-2001 | NASA Science Division, Office of Mission to Planet Earth | "Using Data Assimilation to Infer Soil Moisture from Remotely Sensed Observations: Feasibility Study" | |
| 1997-2001 | MIT-ETH-UT Alliance for Global Sustainability | "Sustainable Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments" | |
| Government Committees, Service, etc.: | ||
| Editorial Board, Advances in Water Resources | 1997-present | |
| Associate Director, EPA Northeast Hazardous Substances Research Center | 1992-1998 | |
| Associate Editor, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics | 1992-present | |
| Associate Editor, Water Resources Research | 1988-1991 | |
| ASCE Groundwater Monitoring Task Committee | 1987-1990 | |
| Committee on Groundwater Contaminant Modeling
Water Science and Technology Board, National Research Council |
1987-1989 | |
| Awards Received: | ||
| Chair, H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Water Resources Management | 1997-present | |
| AGU Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Water Resources Research | 1994 | |
| National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Fellowship | 1967 | |
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