ABSTRACT

Miguel A. Medina, Jr. is professor of civil and environmental engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, United States. He is a past president of the American Institute of Hydrology and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has been a registered professional hydrologist since 1983. He was named external evaluator of the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme from 2002 to 2004 and the lead evaluator (2007) of the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme. Professor Medina has conducted funded research in hydrologic and water quality mathematical modeling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Science Foundation, the O©ce of Water Research and Technology, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, the Naval Oceanographic O©ce, DuPont Engineering, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, and the State of North Carolina. His current research focuses on ¢ow and solute transport surface/groundwater interactions. ¥e results of his research are reported in such journals as Advances in Water Resources, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Ground Water, Desalination, Environmental Modeling and So¹ware, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Computing in Civil Engineering, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Hydrological Science and Technology, and Environmental Health Perspectives.