The Hydrogeologist Time Capsule
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Jacob Bear: Personal Perspectives
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Location : Oxford Conference Center, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Date of record : 13 Oct 2006
Date of publication : 17 Mar 2007
Date of record : 13 Oct 2006
Date of publication : 17 Mar 2007
- Presentation
- Jacob Bear is interviewed by Alex Cheng and a group of colleagues and students from the Universities of Mississippi and Memphis. Jacob Bear reflects upon his distinguished career and emphasises the important need for connections to be made between fundamental understanding and real-world applications. The video shows us how Jacob Bear started to write his first book “Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media” for UNESCO, his motivations, the people that influenced him, and how teaching is an important part of his work.
- Credits
- Alex Cheng, Bob Holt, Sam Wang (University of Mississippi)
Brian Waldron, Jerry Anderson (University of Memphis) - Sponsors
- Funding for the filming and editing was provided by:
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi
- Ground Water Institute, University of Memphis
- Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi
- National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Mississippi
- School of Engineering, University of Mississippi
- About Jacob Bear
Jacob Bear is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is one of the most influential scientists in the field of transport in porous media. His research has focused on many fundamental issues such as the derivation of the basic constitutive equations for flow and transport, and the development of the concept of the dispersivity tensor, and on their applications to solve practical problems, especially sea water intrusion in coastal aquifers. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of groundwater hydraulics. Jacob Bear has also been an influential educator. He has taught in universities, delivered many short courses for engineers and scientists, and has written several major text books that have influenced generations of professionals all over the world.