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MSEM PROGRAM: FACULTY & STAFF
Linfield C. Brown
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tufts University
Linfield C. Brown is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Tufts. He received his BSCE and MS from Tufts,
and joined the CEE faculty in 1970, after completing his
Ph.D. in Sanitary Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For more than three decades he has taught a variety of graduate and
undergraduate courses in environmental engineering, including environmental
process design and modeling, water chemistry, engineering statistics, hydrology,
and industrial waste treatment.
He was Chair of the Tufts Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
for 11 years. During that time he was founder and academic director of an
innovative multi-disciplinary Masters program in hazardous materials
management, and initiated a similar program in environmental science and
management. He is co-author of Statistics for Environmental Engineers,
a book to help environmental engineers and scientists better understand and
design systems for environmental protection through the use of statistics.
He is the author of over 50 technical papers and reports, and has worked
internationally in Spain, Poland, England, and Hungary on water quality
modeling and control. His consulting experience is focused in the areas of
environmental statistics and water quality modeling, and includes evaluation
of regulatory control strategies. He is a recipient of Tufts' Liebner Award
for excellence in teaching and advising.
Research:
Environmental engineering process design and water quality modeling comprise
the research interests of Professor Linfield C. Brown. His research work has
covered a broad range of topics in oxygen transfer and reaeration of streams,
sampling strategies, flow equalization, and uncertainty analysis in water
quality modeling. His most recent research inquiry is in application of
genetic algorithms to the complex problems of calibrating water quality
models and of multi-response parameter estimation. His consulting
experience is focused in the areas of environmental statistics and
water quality modeling, and includes evaluation of regulatory
criteria for waste load permitting, and international workshops
on water quality modeling and control.
Selected Publications and Reports:
- Barnwell, T.O., Jr., L. C. Brown, and R. C. Whittemore (2004) "The
importance of Field Data in Stream Water Quality Modeling Using QUAL2E-UNCAS",
Journal of Environmental Engineering,
ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 6, pp 643-647.
- Brown, L. C. "QUAL2E-UNCAS: A Framework for Modeling Uncertainty",
presented at the Italy -US Bilateral Workshop on Mathematical Models for Water
Quality in Isolated Environments, Venice, Italy, November 15-15,
2002 (invited).
- Limbrunner, J.F., R. M. Vogel, and L. C. Brown (2000) "Estimation of the Harmonic Mean of a Log Normal Variable",
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 59-66. January.
- Mulligan, A.E. and L.C. Brown (1998), "Genetic Algorithms for
Calibrating Water Quality Models", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 3, pp 202-211, March.
- Brown, L.C. and P.M. Berthouex (1997), "Multiresponse Parameter
Estimation of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in an Unsteady Process",
Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 8, pp 767-775, August.
- Brown, L.C. (1987) "Uncertainty Analysis in Water Quality
Modeling using QUAL2E", in Systems Analysis in Water
Quality Management, M.B.
Beck, ed. Pergamon Press, London.
- Brown, L.C. and T.O. Barnwell, Jr. (1987) "Documentation and User
Manual for the Enhanced Stream Water Quality Models QUAL2E and QUAL2E-UNCAS",
USEPA Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens, GA, EPA/600/3-87/007, May.
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