CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL A. CELIA

EDUCATION

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

POSITIONS HELD

• Director, Certificate Program in Environmental Studies, 1998 - Present.
• Director, Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Program, Princeton University, 1997 - 2001.
• Professor of Civil Engineering, July 1997 - Present.
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, July 1993 - June 1997.
• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, September 1989 - June 1993.
• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., September 1985 - August 1989.
• Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, September 1984 - August 1985.
• Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, October 1983 - August 1984.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2000.
• Howard B. Wentz, Jr. '52 Faculty Award in Engineering, Princeton University, 1992.
• Harold Willis Dodds Presidential Preceptorship, Princeton University, 1989-1992 (This is the first Preceptorship awarded to a School of Engineering faculty member in the history of the university).
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1987-1992.
• Edgerton Endowed Junior Faculty Chair, M.I.T., 1987-1989.
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Dept. of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1987.
• George van Ness Lothrop Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 1981-1982.
• William Eddy Memorial Scholarship, Lafayette College, 1978.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Geophysical Union, National Ground Water Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Member, Editorial Board for Advances in Water Resources, 1997-Present.
• Member, Proposal Review Panel, Hydrologic Sciences, National Science Foundation, 2001 - 2004.
• Member, Earth Sciences Division Review Panel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 2002.
• Member, Langbein Lecture Award Committee, American Geophysical Union (1998 - 2000).
• Member, Committee of Visitors (evaluation committee) for the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF (1998).
• Co-Editor, Advances in Water Resources, 1987-1997.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for Water Quality '98, to be held in Tuebengin, Germany, September 1998.
• Member of the Advisory Committee for the International Workshop on Characterization and Measurement of Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Soils, Riverside, CA, October 1997.
• Chair for 1996 Gordon Conference on Flow in Permeable Media
• Vice Chair for 1994 Gordon Conference on Flow in Permeable Media
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, held in Houston, April 1993.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the SIAM Activities Group in the Geosciences.
• Member, Groundwater Hydrology Committee, American Geophysical Union (1988-1992).
• Organizer of symposium on "Modeling Fluid Flow and Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media," SIAM Geosciences Conference, April 1993.
• Organizer of special session "Recent Advances in Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Transport," AGU Fall Meeting, 1989.
• Co-organizer of special session "Pore-scale Models for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media," AGU Spring Meeting, 1989.
• Local organizer for the Seventh International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, M.I.T., June 1988.
• Principal lecturer in the short course "Fundamentals of Unsaturated Zone Modeling," Princeton University, July 1990, June 1991, January 1993.
• Principal lecturer in the short course "Groundwater Contaminant Transport Modeling," Princeton University Jan. 1985-1990; U. of Vermont, Jan. 1991.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Director, Program in Environmental Studies (1998-Present)
• Director, Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Program (1997-2001)
• Chair, School of Engineering and Applied Science Committee on Environmental Engineering (1997-1999)
• Member, Executive Committee, Princeton Environmental Institute (1996-Present)
• Departmental Representative for CEOR (responsible for all aspects of undergraduate affairs; 1992-1995)
• Member, Course of Study Committee (1994-1997)
• Chair, Committee to define and implement the new Quantitative Reasoning course requirement (1995-Present)
• Member, Culpeper Committee (1995)
• Member, University Teaching Awards Committee (1995)
• Member, Engineering Physics Committee (1992-1995)

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVE RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Celia, M.A., P.C. Reeves, and L.A. Ferrand, "Pore-scale Models for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media," Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, 1049-1057, July 1995.

Binning, P. and M.A. Celia, "A Finite Volume Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method for Solution of the Multiphase Contaminant Transport Equations in Two Dimensions," Water Resources Research, 32(1), 103-114, 1995.

Ewing, R.E., H. Wang, and M.A. Celia, "An Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method for Reactive Transport with Biodegradation," Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 11, 229-254, 1995.

Rudolph, D.L., R.G. Kachanoski, M.A. Celia, and D.R. LeBlanc, "Infiltration and Solute Transport Experiments in Unsaturated Sand and Gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Experimental Design and Overview of Results," Water Resources Research, 32(3), 519-532, 1995.

Reeves, P.C. and M.A. Celia, "A Functional Relationship between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, and Interfacial Area as Revealed by a Pore-Scale Network Model," Water Resources Research, 32(8), 2345-2358, 1996.

Rajaram, H., L.A. Ferrand, and M.A. Celia, "Prediction of Relative Permeabilities for Unconsolidated Soils using Pore-Scale Network Models," Water Resources Research, 33(1), 43-52, 1997.

Celia, M.A., "Fundamental Concepts for Numerical Simulation of Contaminant Transport and Biodegradation," in Bioremediation: Principles and Practice, Irvine and Sikdar (eds.),Technomic Publishing, pp. 59-88, 1997.

Binning, P. and M.A. Celia, "Practical Implementation of the Fractional Flow Approach to Multiphase Flow Simulation", Advances in Water Resources, 22(5), 461-478, 1999.

Dahle, H.K. and M.A. Celia, "A Dynamic Network Model for Two-Phase Immiscible Flow", Computational Geosciences, 3, 1-22, 1999.

Fischer, U. and M.A. Celia, "Prediction of Relative and Absolute Permeabilities for Gas and Water from Soil Water Retention Curves using a Pore-Scale Network Model", Water Resources Research, 35(4), 1089-1100, 1999.

Gray, W.G., M.A. Celia, and P.C. Reeves, "Incorporation of Interfacial Areas in Models of Two-Phase Flow," in Vadose Zone Hydrology - Cutting Across Disciplines, M.B. Parlange and J.W. Hopmans (eds.), Oxford University Press (New York), 58-85, 1999.

Held, R.J. and M.A. Celia, "Modeling Support of Functional Relationships between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, Interfacial Area, and Common Lines", Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 24, No. 3-4, 325-343, 2001.

Held, R.J. and M.A. Celia, "Pore-Scale Modeling Extension of Constitutive Relationships in the Range of Residual Saturations", Water Resources Research, Vol. 37, No. 1, 165-170, 2001.

Held, R. and M.A. Celia, "Pore-Scale Modeling and Up-Scaling of Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Mass Transfer", Water Resources Research, 37(3), 539-549, 2001.

Ataie-Ashtiani, B., S.M. Hassanizadeh, M. Oostrom, M.A. Celia, and M.D. White, "Effective Parameters for Two-Phase Flow in a Porous Medium with Periodic Heterogeneities", Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 49, 87-109, 2001.

Binning, P.J. and M.A. Celia, "A Forward Particle Tracking Eulerian Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method for Solution of the Contaminant Transport Equation in Three Dimensions", Advances in Water Resources, 25, 147-157, 2002.

Bruant, R.G., A.J. Guswa, M.A. Celia, and C.A. Peters, "Safe Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Deep Saline Aquifers", Environmental Science and Technology, June 1, 241A-245A, 2002.

Celia, M.A., "How Hydrogeology Can Save the World", (An Editorial), Ground Water, 40(2), 113, 2002.

Guswa, A.J., M.A. Celia, and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, "Models of Soil-Moisture Dynamics in Ecohydrology: A Comparative Study", Water Resources Research, 38(9), 1166, 2002.

Hassanizadeh, S.M., M.A. Celia, and H.K. Dahle, "Dynamic Effect in the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship and their Impacts on Unsaturated Flow", Vadose Zone Hydrology, Vol. 1, August 2002.

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Last Updated: October 14, 2002.