Francisco José Rueda – Valdivia

Academic Education Ingeniero Agrónomo Universidad de Córdoba, 1993 M.Sc. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Major in Water Resources University of California, Davis (EEUU), 2000 PhD. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Major: Water Resources & Minor: Applied Mathematics University of California, Davis (EEUU), 2001 Appointments

2003- Present Investigador Contratado Doctor (Dept. Civil Engineering – Univ. Granada) 2001- 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Civil & Env. Engin. (Cornell Univ) 2001 Postgraduate Research Engineer, Dept. Civil & Env. Engin. (UCDavis) 2001 Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ. of Mississipi (Oxford) Research Interests My research focuses on the analysis, through field experiments and numerical computations, of the transport phenomena occurring in stratified water bodies. Of especial interest to me is the study of physical processes in inland and coastal water bodies (mainly lakes, but also rivers and estuaries) as mechanisms exerting control over the biogeochemistry of these ecosystems. Lately, we are also getting involved in (1) the analysis of numerical algorithms used for the simulation of the internal dynamics of lakes and reservoirs, and (2) hydrologic studies aimed at predicting the fluxes of suspended and dissolved substances reaching reservoirs, from the contributing watershed. I am also extending my area of research towards the analysis of shallow estuaries & wetlands. Publications in the last 3 years (2005-2007) Rueda, F.J. & E.A. Cowen (2005) Exchange between a Freshwater Embayment and a

Large Lake through a Long Shallow Channel. Limnology and Oceanography 50, 169-183

Rueda, F.J., S.G.Schladow, S.G.Monismith & M.T.Stacey (2005) On the effects of topography on wind and the generation of currents in a large multi-basin lake. Hydrobiologia 532, 139–151

Rueda, F.J. & E.A. Cowen (2005) The residence time of a freshwater embayment

connected to a large lake. Limnology and Oceanography 50(5),1638–1653. F.J. Rueda, E. Moreno-Ostos & J. Armengol (2006) The residence time of river water in

reservoirs. Ecological Modelling 191, 260-274.

Rueda, F.J. (2006). Basin scale transport in stratified lakes and reservoirs: towards the knowledge of freshwater ecosystems. In ‘The ecology of the Iberian inland waters: Homage to Ramon Margalef’. ISBN-10: 84-921618-7-6 & ISBN-13: 978-84-921618-7-4

De Vicente, I., E. Moreno-Ostos, V. Amores, F. J. Rueda and L. Cruz-Pizarro (2006).

Low predictability in the dynamics of shallow lakes: implications for their management and restoration. Wetlands 26(4)

F.J. Rueda, E. Moreno-Ostos & L. Cruz-Pizarro (2007) Spatial and temporal scales of

transport in a small high-mountain lake. Aquatic Sciences, 69, 115-128

F.J. Rueda, E. Sanmiguel-Rojas & B.R. Hodges (2007). Baroclinic stability for the

TRIM family of semi-implicit numerical methods for the 3D shallow water equations.

International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 54, 237-268

F.J. Rueda, I. De Vicente and W.E. Fleenor (2007). Pathways of river nutrients towards

the euphotic zone in a deep-reservoir of small size: Uncertainty analysis. Ecological

Modelling, 202, 347-361.

J. Vidal, F.J. Rueda & X. Casamitjana (2006). The seasonal evolution of the internal wave field in a deep warm-monomictic reservoir. Limnology and Oceanography. Accepted.

Rueda, F.J and J. Vidal (2007). Currents in the upper mixed layer or unstratified water

bodies. Invited Contribution. In Encyclopedia of Inland Waters – Edited by

Professor Gene Likens for ELSEVIER Publishers. To appear in 2008

Current funded projects - The Effect of Submerged and Emergent, Highly Flexible and Rigid Macrophyte Canopy Patches on Flow and Mass Transport. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation NSF. Edwin Cowen (Cornell University), PI; Francisco Rueda (UGR), Senior Scientist. - Turbulent mixing, internal waves and intrusions: effects on resource supply and metabolic activity in lakes. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation. Sally McIntyre (Marine Science Institute, University of California-Santa Barbara), PI; Francisco J. Rueda (UGR), Senior Scientist. - Physical control of the size structure of phytoplankton communities in aquatic systems. Funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Acción Integrada - Alemania). Francisco J. Rueda (UGR), PI.

- Coupling Hydrodynamics and Plankton growth in El Gergal reservoir, Seville. Funded by Spanish Ministry of Education. Luis Cruz-Pizarro (UGR), PI; Francisco J. Rueda (UGR), Investigador.

- Predicting and Managing Changes in Near-Shore Water Quality: Lake Tahoe, California. Geoffrey Schladow (UCDavis), PI; Francisco J. Rueda (UGR), Co-PI.

Graduate students and postdocs Laura Di Palermo, PhD student (UC Davis) - current Vickie Singleton, PhD student (Virginia Tech) - current Anna Rigosi, PhD student (Universidad de Granada) - current Javier Vidal-Hurtado, Postdoctoral researcher (Universidad de Granada) – current