Biographical Sketch

for Scott Wells

 

Text Box: Ph.D. from Cornell University in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Master's degree in Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS in Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. Since 1987 he has been at Portland State University and is currently Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research areas are in modeling of environmental fluid mechanics: surface water quality and hydrodynamics and solid-liquid separation processes. He has written over 100 technical publications. He has been involved in almost 100 water body studies. In Oregon, he has been involved in hydrodynamic/water quality modeling on the Tualatin River, Hagg Lake, the Columbia Slough system (Lower Columbia Slough, Upper Columbia Slough, Smith and Bybee Lakes, Peninsula Canal), Klamath River, Russel Creek (near Eugene), Coast Fork of the Willamette River, Bull Run Reservoir #2, Bull Run Reservoir #1, Bull Run Reservoir #3, Bull Run Lake, Upper and Lower Bull Run River, Willamette River (Oregon City Falls to Columbia River, including Multnomah Channel, Willamette River basin), Johnson Creek, Ashland Creek, Cooper Creek Reservoir, Skipanon River, Schooner Creek, Siletz Bay, South Santiam River, Middle Fork Willamette River, Bear Creek, Stone Creek below Timothy Lake, Laurance Lake, Waldo Lake, South Slough off Coos Bay, Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River, the Clackamas River Basin (Clackamas River, Timothy Lake, Lake Harriet, Frog Lake, North Fork Reservoir, Faraday Lake, Estacada Lake) and areas of Tillamook Bay and the Columbia River (Bonneville Dam to St. Helens). His experience also includes water quality and hydrodynamic studies in Hawaii (Wahiawa Reservoir), Virginia (N. Anna Reservoir), Tennessee (Center Hill Lake), Kentucky (Laurel River Reservoir), Idaho (Boise River, Lower Snake River from Brownlee Reservoir to C. J. Strike Reservoir, Brownlee Reservoir, C. J. Strike Reservoir, Spokane River, Oxbow Reservoir, Hells Canyon Reservoir, Coeur D’Alene Lake, Pend Oreille River and Lake), California (Klamath River, Philbrook Reservoir, DeSabla Reservoir, Butte Creek, Millerton Lake), Washington (Columbia River, Clear Lake, Spirit Lake, Spokane River, Long Lake, White and Puyallup Rivers, Snohomish River and Estuary, Green River, Lake Roosevelt, Chelan River, Pend Oreille River, Tolt Reservoir), Wisconsin (Kinnickinnic River, Lake George), North Carolina (Jocassee and Keowee Reservoirs), Florida (Tampa Bay Water Supply Reservoir, Reservoir C-44), Israel (Lake Kinneret or Sea of Galilee, Jordan River, Dead Sea), and in the Ukraine (Dneiper River-reservoir system and Kiev Sea), where he spent the 1993-1994 year as a Fulbright scholar. Current funded University research includes: § Water quality and hydrodynamic river basin modeling with CE-QUAL-W2, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, MS § Tolt Reservoir Temperature and Turbidity Modeling Study, City of Seattle, WA § Spokane River Model Development in Idaho, Environmental Protection Agency, Region X, Seattle, WA. § Waldo Lake Eutrophication Study, US Forest Service § Lake Roosevelt, Washington, Water Quality Modeling Study, Spokane Tribe of Indians § Lake Whatcom Model Study, Washington Department of Ecology § Pend Oreille River Study, Idaho DEQ and Washington Ecology Date: 9/2006