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Department/Program(s):
    Position: Faculty
    Title: Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
    Area(s):
    • Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
    Research Area(s):
    Carbon mitigation; ecohydrology; subsurface hydrology; ecohydrology, numerical modeling, contaminant transport simulation; multiphase flow physics

    Office: E205 Engineering Quad E-Wing
    Phone: 609-258-5425
    Michael Celia

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    Education

    Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1983
    M.A., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1981
    M.S., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1979
    B.S., Civil Engineering, Lafayette College, 1978

    Research Interests

    Professor Celia’s areas of research include groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, numerical modeling, contaminant transport simulation, and multiphase flow physics. Ongoing projects include pore-scale network modeling to study interface dynamics, reactive transport, and scaling in porous media systems; computational studies of plant responses to variations in soil moisture in water-stressed ecosystems, with a focus on applications in sub-Saharan Africa; and studies associated with large-scale injection of CO2 into deep brine formations as a possible mitigation strategy for the atmospheric carbon problem. The carbon work is part of a large multi-disciplinary effort at Princeton known as the Carbon Mitigation Initiative

    Courses

    CEE 305:  Groundwater Hydrology
    CEE525:   Applied Numerical Methods
    CEE 581:  Theory of Groundwater Flow
    CEE 600:  Mathematical Methods for Environmental Transport Problems
    ENV 201:  Fundamentals of Environmental Studies

    Updated: May 12, 2009


    Recent Publications


    1. Celia, M.A. and J.M. Nordbotten, Practical Modeling Approaches for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide, to appear, Ground Water, 2009.
    2. Gasda, S.E., J.M. Nordbotten, and M.A. Celia, Vertical Equilibrium with Sub-scale Analytical Methods for Geological CO2 Sequestration, to appear, Computational Geosciences, 2009.
    3. Nordbotten, J.M., D. Kavetski, M.A. Celia, S. Bachu, Model for CO2 Leakage including Multiple Geological Layers and Multiple Leaky Wells, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 743-749, 2009.
    4. Binning, P.J. and M.A. Celia, Pseudo-kinetics arising from the Upscaling of Geochemical Equilibrium, Water Resources Research, 44, W07410, doi:10.1029/2007WR006147, 2008.
    5. Meng, K., R. Williams, and M.A. Celia, Opportunities for Low-cost CO2 Demonstration Projects in China, Energy Policy, 35, 2368-2378, 2007.