personnel profile

Robert L. Street

Title: Professor Emeritus; William Alden and Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering Department(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering by courtesy Location: Y2E2 259 Mail Code: 4020 Phone: 650.723.4969        Fax: 650.725.9720 E-mail: street@stanford.edu URL: http://www-ce.stanford.edu/faculty/street/ Office Hours: None; send e-mail for appontments Administrator: Jill M. Nomura

Research Statement

Street focuses on studies related to geophysical fluid motions, including numerical simulations of ocean and atmospheric flows, of turbulent and stratified flows in bays, along the coasts, and in rivers. His current efforts are concentrated on numerical simulations of non-hydrostatic, unsteady, three-dimensional and turbulent flows, with the large eddy simulation technique. The work includes the development of models for the unresolved scales of the turbulence, and the development of parallel processing methods for numerical computation. He studies the flow physics in the stratified atmosphere, flow over complex terrain in the atmosphere and ocean, coastal upwelling, internal waves in the ocean, river restoration and sediment transport, and coastal sediment transport. He was the founding director of Stanford's Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory; a vice provost, a vice president, and vice provost and dean for Libraries and Information Resources at Stanford; and chairman of the board of trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

Membership in National Academies

National Academy of Engineering

Academic Honors & Awards

Member, National Academy of Engineerng,
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Hilgard Prize (ASCE)
Huber Prize (ASCE)
Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Award (ASCE)
Knapp Award (ASME)
Phi Beta Kappa
Tau Beta Pi