Water Quality Modeling
GLEC has 25 years of experience in modeling a wide variety of
water quality constituents in surface waters throughout the United
States, with a focus on the Great Lakes region. GLEC has developed
mathematical models for many water quality applications
involving hydrodynamic and sediment transport, partitioning, air and
water exchange, transformation, and bioaccumulation processes. This
work has contributed to the development of both simple and complex
models used to address water quality problems in the Great Lakes,
their embayments and tributaries. GLEC has published research in
the areas of in-place pollutant transport and fate, food web bioaccumulation
of PCBs and PCDD/PPCDFs, and model uncertainty
analysis.
GLEC is experienced in conducting applied environmental engineering
studies and projects, emphasizing water quality, bioaccumulation,
and aquatic ecosystem modeling. These projects are diverse
and can include model calibration, verification, and uncertainty
analysis procedures; point and non-point source, tributary and atmospheric
load estimation; field and laboratory data analysis and reduction
tion procedures; and, presentation of results to scientific, technical,
and managerial audiences. GLEC also conducts engineering studies
for a wide range of environmental applications, including regulatory
and cost-benefit analysis, technical guidance for standards development
and implementation, and total maximum daily load (TMDL),
nonpoint source pollution and mixing zone studies.
Contact: Doug Endicott, Principal Research Scientist
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