CURRICULUM VITAE: Julia Chefter Levin

Present Position and Address: Associate Research Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick NJ, 08901

Tel: (848) 932-3424, Fax: (732) 932-8578

e-mail: julia@imcs.rutgers.edu

webpage: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~levinj , http://marine.rutgers.edu/faculty_jlevin.html

Education:

• PhD(App.Math), Columbia University, 1995;
• MS, Columbia University, 1992;
• BS(App.Math), Moscow Oil and Gas Academy, 1988.

Fields of Research Interest:

• ocean modeling;
• data assimilation;
• computational fluid dynamics and numerical analysis;
• large-scale scientific computing.

Experience:

• Rutgers University, associate research professor, April 2011 - present.
• Rutgers University, assistant research professor, February 2001 - April 2011.
• Rutgers University, postdoctoral research associate, November 1997 - February 2001. Work with D. Haidvogel and M. Iskandarani. Ocean model development and application to studying idealized and realistic ocean processes.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, postdoctoral research associate, November 1995-November 1997. Work with Prof. D.Haidvogel and Prof. P.Rizzoli on ocean modeling and data assimilation with SEOM and SCRUM models.
• Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center, visiting scientist, December 1994 - January 1995. Work with Prof. D.Keyes on the domain decomposition methods on composite grids and on some issues of parallel distributed computing.
• Los Alamos National Lab, Center for Nonlinear Studies, visiting scientist, July-August 1994. Summer project with Dr. J.Dendy on time-parallel multigrid, data-parallel programming;
• Russian State Center of Automation Research, programmer analyst, 1988-1991. Data bases on local networks;
• Moscow Institute of Mechanics, internship in summer 1987 and 1988, part-time during semesters. Project with Prof. V. Entov on the modeling of two-phase flow through porous media using percolation theory.

Publications:

• X. Wang, Y. Chao, D.R. Thompson, S.A. Chien, J. Farrara, P. Li, Q. Vu, H. Zhang, J.C. Levin, A. Gangopadhyay, "Multi-model ensemble forecasting and glider path planning in the Mid-Atlantic Bight", Continental Shelf Research, in press
  
• H.G. Arango, J.C. Levin , E.N. Curchitser, B. Zhang, A.M. Moore, W. Han, A.L.Gordon, C. Lee, J.B. Girton, "Development of a Hindcast/Forecast Model for the Philippine Archipelago", Oceanography, 24(1), 2011, 58-69
• W.G. Zhang, J.L. Wilkin, J.C. Levin , "Towards an integrated observation and modeling system in the New York Bight using variational methods, Part II: Representer-based observing system design", Ocean Modelling, 35(3), 2010, 134-145
• I.I. Rypina, L.J. Pratt, J. Pullen, J. Levin, A. Gordon, "Chaotic advection in an archipelago", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(9), 2010, 1988-2006
• W.G. Zhang, J.L. Wilkin, J.C. Levin , H.G. Arango, "An Adjoint Sensitivity Study of Bouyancy- and Wind-driven Circulation on the New Jersey Inner Shelf", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39(7), 2009, 1652-1668
• W.Han, A.M.Moore, J.C.Levin , B.Zhang, H.G.Arango, E.Curchitser, E.DiLorenzo, A.Gordon, J.Lin, "Seasonal surface ocean circulation and dynamics in the Philippine Archipelago region during 2004-2008", Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 47, 2009, 114-137
• J.C. Muccino, H.G. Arango, A.B. Bennett, B.S. Chua, B.D. Cornuelle, E. DiLorenzo, G.D. Egbert, D.B. Haidvogel, L. Hao, J.C. Levin, A.J. Miller, A.M. Moore, E.D. Zaron "The Inverse Ocean Modeling System. II: Applications", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25(9), 2008, 1623-1637
• D.B. Haidvogel, H. Arango, W.P. Budgell, B.D. Cornuelle, E. Curchitser, E. Di Lorenzo, K. Fennel, W.R. Geyer, A.J. Hermann, L. Lanerolle, J.C. Levin, J.C. McWilliams, A.J. Miller, A.M. Moore, T.M. Powell, A.F. Shchepetkin, C.R. Sherwood, R.P. Signell, J.C. Warner, J. Wilkin "Ocean Forecasting in Terrain-following Coordinates: Formulation and Skill Assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System", Journal of Computational Physics, 227, 2008, 3595-3624
• A.J. Miller, D.J. Neilson, D.S. Luther, M.C. Hendershott, B.D. Cornuelle, P.F. Worcester, M.A. Dzieciuch, B.D. Dushaw, B.M. Howe, J.C. Levin, H.G. Arango and D.B. Haidvogel "Barotropic Rossby wave radiation from a model Gulf Stream", Geophysical Research Letters, 34, 2007, L23613, doi:10.1029/2007GL031937
• J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, D.B. Haidvogel "To Continue or Discontinue: Comparisons of Continuous and Discontinuous Galerkin Formulations in a Spectral Element Ocean Model, Ocean Modeling, 15, 2006, 56-70
• K. Fennel, J. Wilkin, J. Levin, J. Moisan, J. O'Reilly, D. Haidvogel "Nitrogen Cycling in the Mid Atlantic Bight and implication for the North Atlantic nitrogen budget: Results from a three-dimensional model", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, 2006, GB3007, doi:10.1029/2005GB002456
• J. Levin, D.B. Haidvogel, B. Chua, A.F.Bennett, M. Iskandarani "Euler-Lagrange Equations for the Spectral Element Shallow Water System", Ocean Modeling, 12, 2006, 348-377
• M. Iskandarani, J. Levin, B-J Choi, D.B. Haidvogel "Comparison of Advection Schemes for high order $h-p$ Finite Element and Finite Volume Methods", Ocean Modeling, 10, 2005, 233-252
• B-J Choi, M. Iskandarani, J. Levin and D.B. Haidvogel "A spectral finite volume method for the shallow water equations", Monthly Weather Review, 132, 2004, 1777-1791
• M. Iskandarani, D. Haidvogel, and J. Levin, "A three-dimentional spectral element model for the solution of the hydrostatic primitive equations", Journal of Computational Physics,186(2), 2003, 397-425
• M. Iskandarani, D. Haidvogel, J. Levin, E. Curchitser, C. Edwards, "Multi-Scale Geophysical Modeling Using the Spectral Element Method", Computing in Science and Engineering, 4(5),2002,42-48.
• O. Le Matre, J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, O. Knio, "A Multiscale Pressure Splitting of the Shallow Water Equations. I. Formulation and 1D Tests", Journal of Computational Physics, 166, 2001,116-151
• J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, D. Haidvogel, "A Nonconforming Spectral Element Ocean Model", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 34(6), 2000, 495-525
• J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, D. Haidvogel, "A Spectral Filtering Procedure for Eddy-Resolving Simulations with a Spectral Element Ocean Model", Journal of Computational Physics, 13(1),1997,130-154
• J.G.Chefter, C.K.Chu, D.E.Keyes, "Domain Decomposition for the Shallow Water Equations", 485-490, in Domain Decomposition Methods in Scientific and Engineering Computing, D.E. Keyes, J. Xu, (eds), AMS, Providence, 1994.
• J.G.Chefter, V.M.Entov, "Two-Phase Flow Modeling Using Percolation Theory", (Russian), 96-100, in Dynamics of multiphase flows, Novosibirsk, 1989.