Dr. Malcolm L. Spaulding is an Ocean Engineer specializing in numerical modeling of nearshore and coastal processes of estuarine, coastal and continental shelf regions to include hydrodynamics, waves, sediment transport and pollutant transport, fate, and effect. In addition he has been active in computational fluid dynamics investigating a wide range of geophysical and engineering flow problems. Dr. Spaulding has 25 years of experience in teaching, research, and project management. He has maintained an active research program and managed several projects with budgets in excess of a half million dollars.
In the last decade, Dr. Spaulding has served on numerous National Research Council (NRC) committees and panels, including those to review oil pollution research and development, to evaluate marine environmental studies programs, to assess ocean technology transfer, and to evaluate cleanup and response to spills of heavy oils. Dr. Spaulding was a member of NRC's Marine Board and liaison to the Ocean Studies Board from 1996 to 2001. He chaired the committee on the Marine Transportation of Heavy Oils in 1999. In 2001 he received a certificate of appreciation for outstanding service as a member of the NRC, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Marine Board, 1996-2001. He recently (2002) served on the NRC, Marine Board committee on Naval Engineering: Alternative Approaches for Organizing Cooperative Research.
Dr. Spaulding is an internationally recognized expert in marine environmental modeling, with a primary focus in the areas of hydrodynamics, pollutant transport and fate, oil spill transport and fate, and the development of integrated modeling and monitoring systems. He has led the development of several widely used oil spill transport and fate and hydrodynamic and water quality models. He has published extensively in the field of marine environmental modeling.
He has contributed over 100 publications to the literature over 30 of which are refereed.
