Research Interests

My work focuses on improving our understanding of coupled biological, physical, and chemical processes important in the environment. To this end I work to develop analytical and numerical models and perform experiments of environmental fluid mechanics and interactions between fluid flows and biological and chemical processes.

My current research includes (1) development and testing of a mechanistic isotope and land-surface model called ISOLSM; (2) application of ISOLSM to enhance our ability to use ¹⁸O as a tracer of gross H₂O and CO₂ ecosystem fluxes at the site, regional, and global level; (3) development of a distributed land-surface model for studies in the ARMCART; (4) using a coupled mesoscale meteorological model (MM5) and land-surface model (LSM1.0) to study impacts of land-use change on regional soil moisture, air temperatures, precipitation, etc.; (5) modeling of interactions between the soil, biosphere, and atmosphere that impact hydrological flows, leaching, carbon and nutrient cycling, and trace-gas fluxes important in climate change; and (6) developing tools to quantify contaminant movement in the environment and resulting human exposures.

Curriculum Vitae

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William Riley
Scientist

Geochemistry Department

Phone:510-486-5036
Fax: 510-486-7070
Email: wjriley@lbl.gov