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Introduction on this profile page is copied from the official website of Stanford University, and edited by the expert, for the 2nd IAHR Presidential Lecture, December 5, 2022. For more updated information, please visit: https://profiles.stanford.edu/stephen-monismith. Stephen Monismith's research in environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics involves the application of fluid mechanics principles to the analysis of flow processes operating in rivers, lakes, estuaries and the oceans, with a particular interest in the ecological impacts of those flows. His current research includes studies of estuarine hydrodynamics and mixing processes, flows over coral reefs and on the inner shelf, turbulence in density stratified fluids, and physical-biological interactions in phytoplankton and benthic systems. Current and past projects include field and computational work on wave-driven flows over coral reefs, stratified turbulence due to shoaling internal waves, benthic grazing on coral reefs and in kelp forests, dispersion in complex estuarine tidal flows, and lab and computational studies of flows through coral colonies. He is also involved with various scientific panels focusing on the San Francisco Bay/Delta including an NRC committee that examined the sustainability of the Delta as a water supply system and as an ecosystem. Professor Monismith is currently director of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. He is the Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering, and from 2009-2016 served at chair of the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford. Prior to coming to Stanford, he spent three years in Perth (Australia) as a research fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2022 was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

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