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University of Florida
Civil and Coastal Engineering

Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

Associate Professor
Division: Coastal & Oceanographic

Office Phone: (352) 392-9537 x1479
Location: 558 Weil Hall
Email Address: arnoldo@ufl.edu
Personal Page: http://users.coastal.ufl.edu/~arnoldo/arnoldo.html


Education

Ph.D., Oceanography, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992
M.S., Marine Environmental Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1988
B.S., Oceanology, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, 1985


Years of Service on this Faculty

Appointment Date:  August, 2005
Aug 2005-present  Associate Professor


Research Interests

Physical Oceanography; Observations and numerical modeling of estuarine and coastal hydrodynamic processes; Estuary-ocean exchange; Competition between buoyancy and mixing.


Professional Experience

1993-1995 Research Assistant Professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University

1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Old Dominion University

1999 Adjunct Professor, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico

2001-2005 Associate Professor, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Old Dominion University

2005-Present Associate Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering Department, University of Florida


Principal Publications

Valle-Levinson, A. and L. Atkinson. Spatial gradients in the flow over an estuarine channel. Estuaries, 22(2A), 179-193, 1999.

Li, C., and A. Valle-Levinson, A 2-D analytic tidal model for a narrow estuary of arbitrary lateral depth variation: the intra-tidal motion, J. Geophys. Res, 104(C10), 23525-23543, 1999.

Moraga, J., A. Valle-Levinson, and J. Olivares, Hydrography and geostrophy around Easter Island. Deep Sea Research, 46, 715-731, 1999.

Valle-Levinson, A., K.C. Wong, and K.M.M. Lwiza, Fortnightly variability in the transverse dynamics of a coastal plain estuary, J. Geophys. Res, 105(C2), 3413-3424, 2000.

Valle-Levinson, A., C. Li, K. Wong, and K.M.M. Lwiza, Convergence of Lateral Flow Along a Coastal Plain Estuary, J. Geophys. Res., 105(C7), 17,045-17,061, 2000.

Valle-Levinson, A., J. Moraga, J. Olivares, and J. Blanco, Tidal and Residual Circulation in a Semiarid Bay: Coquimbo Bay, Chile, Continental Shelf Research, 20(15), 2009-2028, 2000.

Li, C., A. Valle-Levinson, L. Atkinson, and T.C. Royer, Inference of tidal elevation in shallow water using a vessel-towed ADCP, J. Geophys. Res., 105(C11), 26,225-26,236, 2000.

Valle-Levinson, A., F. Jara, C. Molinet, and D. Soto, Observations of Intratidal Variability of Exchange Flows Over a Sill/Contraction Combination in a Chilean Fjord, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C4), 7,051-7,064, 2001.

Valle-Levinson, A., K. Wong, and K. Bosley, Observations of the wind-induced exchange at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, J. Mar. Res., 59(3), 391-416, 2001.

Valle-Levinson, A., J.A. Delgado, and L.P. Atkinson, Reversing Water Exchange Patterns at the Entrance to a Semiarid Coastal Lagoon, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 53, 825-838, 2001.

Valle-Levinson, A., K. Wong, and K. Bosley, Effects of Hurricane Floyd on the exchange at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 1715-1730, 2002.

Locarnini, R., L. Atkinson, and A. Valle-Levinson, Real-time monitoring of mean temperature and salinity conditions at the Chesapeake Bay Mouth, Estuaries, 25(1), 1-5, 2002.

Wong, K. and A. Valle-Levinson, On the relative importance of the remote and local wind effects on the subtidal exchange at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, J. Mar. Res., 60, 477-498, 2002.

Atkinson, L.P., A. Valle-Levinson, D.Figueroa, R. De Pol-Holz, V. A. Gallardo, W. Schneider, J.L. Blanco, and M. Schmidt, Oceanographic observations in Chilean coastal waters between Valdivia and Concepción, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C7), 10.1029/2001JC000991, 2002.

Caceres, M. A. Valle-Levinson, H.H. Sepulveda, K. Holderied, Transverse variability of flow and density in a Chilean fjord, Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 1683-1698, 2002.