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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID DYNAMICS Presents a Seminar: Nearshore Hydrodynamics and the Fate and Transport of Escherichia coli at Beaches in Southern Lake Michigan Professor Phanikumar Mantha Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Michigan State University Date: Time: Place: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:00-12:00 noon Engineering Dean’s Boardroom, 258 Fitzpatrick Hall Abstract Microbiological contamination of nearshore waters continues to be a problem at recreational beaches in the Great Lakes region with significant economic and health-risk tradeoffs associated with beach closures. Current approaches of beach management based on observations are slow and unreliable. Modeling microbiological water quality presents an attractive alternative for generating short-term forecasts. In this talk, I will describe our recent efforts to model the fate and transport of indicator bacteria such as E. coli using three-dimensional nearshore hydrodynamic and transport models. Model performance is evaluated using several datasets collected at beaches in Indiana along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
