Dr. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

Director

Dr. Valle-Levinson is a Professor in the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department. He was awarded the prestigious CAREER award by the National Science Foundation. He has received research and visiting fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, from the University of Western Australia, from Utrecht University, from the Chilean Science and Technology Council, from the University of Bordeaux, from Kyushu University, from the University of Pernambuco, Brazil and from University of Padua, Italy. He is an author of 230+ peer-reviewed publications in international journals. His research on coastal hydrodynamics is recognized worldwide, specifically in the areas of morphologic effects on estuarine and coastal circulation, and on wind-driven, tidally driven and density-driven circulation. An estuary of southern Chile, off Aysen fjord, was named in his honor (‘Estero Arnoldo’). In 2012, he became one of the <100 worldwide Corresponding Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is Chief Editor of Continental Shelf Research, and Associate Editor of Estuaries and Coasts, and Journal of Oceanography. He has published a textbook on estuarine hydrodynamics.