Professor
University of Florida
Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
arnoldo@ufl.edu

Arnoldo Valle-Levinson is a Professor at the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department at the University of Florida. His work deals mainly with the study of estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics. Throughout his career, he has carried out observational studies on exchange processes in fjords as well as in temperate, subtropical, and tropical systems. His research combines observational, numerical and theoretical approaches to elucidate the effects of bathymetry on volume exchange at the mouth of estuaries, fjords and coastal lagoons. His research also considers the interplay among wind-induced, density-induced and tidally induced exchange processes between estuarine systems and the adjacent coastal ocean, as well as their potential impact on nutrient fluxes, harmful algae and ichthyoplankton transport. Arnoldo is a recipient of a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation, a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship in Chile, a Gledden Fellowship from the University of Western Australia, a Fellowship from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, a Visiting Fellowship from the Chilean Science Foundation, a Visiting Professorship from Utrecht University, and a Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Spain. He was named Distinguished Professor by the Northern Catholic University of Chile and a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Arnoldo has worked extensively in several Latin-American countries, where he also teaches courses on estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics. He has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and is serving as associate editor of Continental Shelf Research, Estuaries and Coasts, Ciencias Marinas, and the International Journal of Ocean System Engineering. Arnoldo’s contribution to CARTHE involves the manufacturing of 300 drifters that were used in the Grand Lagrangian Deployment Experiment. He also expects to contribute in some aspects of the data analysis and publication production.