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Linfield C. Brown
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Background
Linfield C. Brown is Professor and former Chair of the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts. He received
his BSCE and MS from Tufts, and joined the CEE faculty in 1970,
after completing his Ph.D. in Sanitary Engineering at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught a variety of graduate and
undergraduate courses in environmental engineering, including
environmental process design and modeling, water chemistry,
engineering statistics, hydrology, and industrial waste treatment.
He was Chair of the Tufts Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department for 11 years. During that time he was founder and
academic director of an innovative multi-disciplinary Masters
program in hazardous materials management, and initiated a similar
program in environmental science and management. He is co-author
of Statistics for Environmental Engineers, a book to
help environmental engineers and scientists better understand
and design systems for environmental protection through the
use of statistics. He is the author of over 50 technical papers
and reports, and has worked internationally in Spain, Poland,
England, and Hungary on water quality modeling and control.
His consulting experience is focused in the areas of
environmental statistics and water quality modeling, and
includes evaluation of regulatory control strategies. He is
a recipient of Tufts' Liebner Award for excellence in teaching and advising.
Research
- Water quality modeling, QUAL2E
- Environmental engineering statistics
- Genetic algorithms, uncertainty analysis
Environmental engineering process design and water quality
modeling comprise the research interests of Professor Linfield
C. Brown. His research work has covered a broad range of topics
in oxygen transfer and reaeration of streams, sampling strategies,
flow equalization, and uncertainty analysis in water quality
modeling. His most recent research inquiry is in application
of genetic algorithms to the complex problems of calibrating
water quality models and of multi-response parameter estimation.
His consulting experience is focused in the areas of environmental
statistics and water quality modeling, and includes evaluation
of regulatory criteria for waste load permitting, and international
workshops on water quality modeling and control.
Teaching
Workshops and Short Courses
Workshops on Water Quality Modeling for TMDLs (with Steve
Chapra): EPA Region VII (May 2001), Tufts University (June
2001), and Central New Jersey Branch, ASCE (March 2002),
NEIWPCC (2004).
Workshop on Statistics for Environmental Engineers (with
P.M. Berthouex): Madison WI (October 2000) and Taipei, Taiwan
(March 2003).
Water Quality Modeling Workshop, Continuing Education
Centre, Imperial College, London, UK, June 21-22, 1993 and
April 24-27, 1994, State of Maine (2006).
QUAL2E Workshop, sponsored by USEPA (with T.O. Barnwell),
Madrid, Spain, February 20-21, 1985, Warsaw Poland, May
23 - June 1, 1990, Budapest, Hungry, March 8-12, 1993.
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