ABE BioComplexity Seminar

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Speaker:
Dr. Rob de Rooij
Title:
Mechanistic modeling of bioaerosol particles downwind transport and deposition from CAFO as a source for vegetable field pathogens
Bio:
Rob de Rooij is a Research Assistant Scientist at the Water Institute (UF). His main research topics focus on the application and development of numerical simulation tools to solve hydrogeological problems in complex natural systems. Examples are flow and mass transport problems in karstic aquifers and coupled surface-subsurface flow problems. Typically, his work is based on the use of classical finite difference, finite volume or finite element methods and challenges lie in numerical stability, robustness and parallization. A particularly interesting problem that intrigues Rob de Rooij is to simulate the age and source components of water. For example, if you take a bucket of water out of a river, the question one could ask is where and when did that water fall on the surface as precipitation. As a side note, Rob de Rooij is one of those that still codes in FORTRAN.