• History, physics, and mathematics of diffusion
Evolution of ideas on heat diffusion; electrical currents,
material diffusion in gases, liquids, and solids; pressure-driven
fluid flows in resistive media; and stochastic diffusion from the
18th century to present. Study of original contributions by Laplace
and Lavoisier, Rumford, Fourier, Graham, Dutrochet, Ohm, Fick, Maxwell,
Darcy, Pfeffer, van’t Hoff, Nernst, Roberts- Austen, Rayleigh,
Edgeworth, Bachelier, Einstein, Langevin, Perrin, Hevesy, Krogh, and
others
E219/MSE219 Diffusion: History, Physics, Mathematics, taught
during Spring semester
• Water: Science and Society
Hydrological Cycle, and its linkages to erosional, geochemical
and nutrient cycles.
Sustainable water resources development. Water and culture. Public
Trust. Water in
California
ESPM130/Geog136
Water in Terrestrial Environment, taught during Fall semester
Principal Organizer, California Water Colloquium,
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/ccow.html
• Hydrogeology
Continental and marine hydrogeological processes, groundwater
hydraulics, mathematical modeling, history of hydrogeology, interactions
with soil science, petroleum engineering, civil engineering, geochemistry,
geophysics, ecology