Professor
Oregon State University
Department of Mathematics
restrepo@math.oregonstate.edu

Juan M. Restrepo, is the Group Leader of the Uncertainty Quantification Group at The University of Arizona, and a professor in the Mathematics, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physics Departments. His team has developed several methods for nonlinear/non-Gaussian data assimilation, and is presently working in collaboration with Profs. Arthur Mariano, Clint Dawson and Shankar Venkataramani on a data blending strategy, optimized for the GoM. In collaboration with J. McWilliams (UCLA), he developed a comprehensive and consistent oceanic wave/current interaction model applicable to GoM Coast dynamics, and is at work on expanding the model to handle oil slicks at large spatio-temporal scales. He has also published in acoustics, and in sedimentary dynamics. In scientific computing, he has contributed to wavelet/Galerkin techniques, ensemble bred vectors for sensitivity analysis, eigenvalue calculations, and computational aspects of variational data assimilation.