Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada, 1985

 

SAMPLE HONORS AND AWARDS

Award recipient, Research Fellowship for Non-National Hispanics, Scientific and Cultural Affairs, Spain (2000)

Appointed Associate Editor, Water Science & Technology Library (1999)

Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (since 1995)

Award recipient, National Science Foundation (1997)

Award recipient, National Science Foundation (1994)

Award Recipient, National Science Foundation (1992)

Award Recipient, National Science Foundation (1990)

Award recipient, U.S. Geological Survey (1992)

Award recipient, U.S. Geological Survey (1988)

Summer Research Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky (1987, 1988)

Nominated for the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986)

First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1995)

First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1992)

First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1989)

Second Place, Best Journal Research Paper in the College of Engineering, University of Kentucky (1989)

First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1988)

Special Faculty Award for Outstanding Research, University of Kentucky President (1988, 1990)

Distinguished Teacher, Collegians for Academic Excellence (a student organization focusing on teaching excellence), University of Kentucky (1990)

Cited in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans

Cited in Contributions in Hydrology", The U.S. National Report to the 20th General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, August 1124, 1991

Cited in several research articles in the following journals:Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics

Academic Scholarship, University of Waterloo (1982)

Academic Scholarship, University of Waterloo (1984)

International Scholarship, Rotary International (1980 1981)

Academic Scholarship, Colombian Geological Survey (1978)

Academic Scholarship, Institute ICETEX, Colombia (1972 1976)

 

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Summary of Past Research Funding

Continuous funding since 1986

Continuous funding from the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2002 (4 grants)

Two grants from the U.S. Geological Survey (1988, 1992)

Competitive funding secured for the construction of two, state-of-the-art, research labs

Several private research contracts, internal grants, and international fellowships.

 

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Surface and subsurface hydrologic engineering

Effects of climate change on water resources

Theoretical analyses; analytical solutions of nonlinear differential equations in hydrology

Groundwater flow and groundwater pollution modeling

Mathematics and physics of multi-phase transport in soils and aquifers

Stochastic analysis and stochastic differential equations of engineering systems

 

SELECTED RESEARCH PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Udoeyo, F. F., Serrano, S. E., Weathers, A., Khan, B., Gao, Y., and Selkregg, S., 2011. Behavior of Concrete Containing Ternary Binders. Under review, Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE

 

Serrano, S.E., 2011. New Approaches to the Propagation of Nonlinear Transients in Porous Media. Accepted for publication, Journal of Transport in Porous Media

 

Patel, A., and Serrano, S.E., 2011. Decomposition Solution of Multidimensional Groundwater Equations. Journal of Hydrology. 397:202-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.11.032

 

            * Ms. A. Patel was a student of Dr. Serrano

 

Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 2008. Experimental Verification of Models of Nonlinear Stream Aquifer Transients. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 13(12):1119-1124

 

Serrano, S.E., Workman, S.R., Srivastava, K., and Miller-Van Cleave, B., 2007. Models of Nonlinear Stream Aquifer Transients. Journal of Hydrology, 336(1-2):199-205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.016

 

            * Ms. B. Miller-Van Cleave was a student of Dr. Serrano

 

Srivastava, K., and Serrano, S.E., 2007. Uncertainty Analysis of Linear and Nonlinear Groundwater Flow in a Heterogeneous Aquifer. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 12(3):306-318. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2007)12:3(306)

 

Srivastava, K., Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 2006. Stochastic Modeling of Stream-Aquifer Interaction with the Nonlinear Boussinesq Equation. Journal of Hydrology, 328:538-547. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.12.035

 

Serrano, S.E., 2006. Development and Verification of an Analytical Solution for Forecasting Nonlinear Kinematic Flood Waves. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(4):347-353. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2006)11:4(347)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2004. Modeling Infiltration with Approximate Solutions of Richard’s Equation. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 9(5):421-432. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2004)9:5(421)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2003. Improved Decomposition Solution to Green and Ampt Equation. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,, 8(3):158-160. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2003)8:3(158)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2003. Propagation of Nonlinear Reactive Contaminants in Porous Media. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 39(8):1228-1242

 

Serrano, S.E., 2003. Modeling Groundwater Flow under a Transient Non-linear Free Surface. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 8(3):123-132. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2003)8:3(123)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2001b. An Explicit Solution to the Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 6(4):336-340. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2001)6:4(336)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2001a. Solute Transport under Non-Linear Sorption and Decay. Water Research, International Association of Water Quality, 35(6):1525-1533

 

Gelegenis, J., and Serrano, S.E.,2000 Analysis of Muskingum Equation Based Flood Routing Schemes. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 5(1):102-105

 

Workman, S.R. and S.E. Serrano. 1999. Recharge to Alluvial Valley Aquifers from Overbank Flow and Excess Infiltration. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 35(2): 425-432

 

Serrano, S.E., 1999a. KYSPILL: A Practical System of Modeling Scale-Dependent Dispersion After Chemical Spills. Ground Water, 37(1):18-22

 

Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 1998c. Modeling Transient Stream/Aquifer Interaction with the Non-Linear Boussinesq Equation and its Analytical Solution, Journal of Hydrology, 206:245-255

 

Serrano, S.E., 1998b. Analytical Decomposition of the Non-Linear Infiltration Equation. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 34(3):397-407

 

Adomian, G., and Serrano, S.E., 1998a. Stochastic Contaminant Transport Equation in Porous Media. Applied Mathematics Letters, 11(1):53-55

 

Workman, S.R., Serrano, S.E., and Liberty *, K., 1997. Development and Application of an Analytical Model of Stream/Aquifer Interaction. Journal of Hydrology, 200:149-163

 

* Mr. K. Liberty was a student of Dr. Serrano

 

Serrano, S.E., 1997b. The Theis Solution in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Ground Water, 35(3):463-467

 

Serrano, S.E., 1997a. Non-Fickian Transport in Heterogeneous Saturated Porous Media. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, 123(1):70-76

 

Serrano, S.E., and Adomian, G., 1996. New Contributions to the Solution of Transport Equations in Porous Media. Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 24(4):15-25

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996c. Hydrologic Theory of Dispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1(4):144-151

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996b. Towards a Non-Perturbation Transport Theory in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Mathematical Geology, 28(6):701-721

 

Serrano, S.E., 1995b. Forecasting Scale Dependent Dispersion from Spills in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Journal of Hydrology, 169:151-169

 

Serrano, S.E., 1995a*. Analytical Solutions of the Non-Linear Groundwater Flow Equation in Unconfined Aquifers and the Effect of Heterogeneity. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 31(11):2733-2742

 

* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1995

            * The College of Engineering suspended this competition in 1996

 

Serrano, S.E., 1992c*. The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and its Analytical Solution. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 28(7):1801-1808

 

* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1992

 

Serrano. S.E., 1992b. Semi-Analytical Methods in Stochastic Groundwater Transport. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 16:181-191

 

Serrano, S.E., 1992a. Migration of Chloroform in Aquifers. Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 118(2):167-182

 

Serrano, S.E., and Liang*, J., 1992. A Stochastic Groundwater Model and Its Parameter Estimation. Chinese Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 11(2):11-21

 

* Mr. J. Liang was a student of Dr. Serrano

 

Serrano, S.E., 1990c. Using the C Language to Approximate Non-Linear Stochastic Systems. Advances in Engineering Software, 12(2):59-68

 

Serrano, S.E., 1990b. Stochastic Differential Equation Models of Erratic Infiltration. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 26(4):703-712

 

Serrano, S.E., 1990a. Modeling Infiltration in Hysteretic Soils. Advances in Water Resources, 13(1):12-23

 

Serrano S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1990. Random Evolution Equations in Hydrology. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 38:201-226

 

Sarino*, and Serrano, S.E., 1990. Development of the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph Using Stochastic Differential Equations. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 4(2):151-160

 

* Mr. Sarino was a student of Dr. Serrano

 

Serrano, S.E., 1989*. A New Approach in Modeling Groundwater Pollution Under Uncertainty. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 4(2):85-98

 

* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1989

 

*This paper won the second place in the competition Best Journal Research Paper in the College of Engineering competition of 1989

 

Serrano, S.E., 1988b*. General Solution to Random Advective-Dispersive Equation in Porous Media. Part II: Stochasticity in the Parameters. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 2(2):99-112

 

* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1988

 

Serrano, S.E., 1988a. General Solution to Random Advective-Dispersive Equation in Porous Media. Part I: Stochasticity in The Sources and in the Boundaries. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 2(2):79-98

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987b. Semigroup Solutions of the Unsteady Groundwater Flow Equation with Stochastic Parameters. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 1(4):281-296

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987a: Predicting Groundwater Flow in a Phreatic Aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 95:241-268

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1986. Boundary Element Solution of the Two-Dimensional Groundwater Flow Equation With Stochastic Free-Surface Boundary Condition. Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations, 2:237-258

 

Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E. and Lennox, W.C., 1985c. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part III: Approximate Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 285-306

 

Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1985b. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part II: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Groundwater Flow. A Functional-Analytic Approach. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 265-284

 

Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1985a. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part I: Deterministic Partial Differential Equations in Groundwater Flow. A Functional Analytic Approach. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 247-263

 

Serrano, S., Whiteley, H.R., and Irwin, R., 1985. Drainage Effects on Streamflow in The Middle Thames River, 1949-1980. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 12:875-885

 

Jousma, G., and Serrano, S., 1980. Hydrologic Study of the Middle and Low Guajira. Journal of the Colombian Geological Survey, 23(3):39-80

 

Technical Notes, Discussions, and Comments in Refereed Journals

Serrano, S.E., 2007. Closure to Discussion of “Development and Verification of an Analytical Solution for Forecasting Nonlinear Kinematic Flood Waves.” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 12(6):705-706

 

Serrano, S.E., 2006. Closure to “Discussion of Closure to Explicit Solution to Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation.” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(3):284-290

 

Serrano, S.E., 2005. Closure to Discussion of “Improved Decomposition Solution to Green and Ampt Equation”. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,, 10(5):435-436

 

Serrano, S.E., 2005. Closure to Discussion of “Modeling Groundwater Flow under Transient Nonlinear Free Surface.” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10(5):429-433

 

Serrano, S.E., 2003. Closure to Discussion of “Explicit Solution to Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation.” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 8(3)168-170

 

Kacimov, A.R., and Serrano, S.E.., 2003. Comments on an Exact Analytical Solution of the Boussinesq Equation. Transport in Porous Media, 52:389-394

 

Serrano, S.E., 2002. Comment on “Beach Water Fluctuations due to Spring-Neap Tides:Moving Boundary Effects.” Advances in Water Resources, 25:585-588.

 

Serrano, S.E., 2002. Reply to Comment on “Solute Transport Under Non-Linear Sorption and Decay.” Water Research, 36(12):3171-3172.

 

Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 2000. Reply to Comment on “Modeling Transient Stream/Aquifer Interaction with the Non-Linear Boussinesq Equation and its Analytical Solution. ” Journal of Hydrology, 235:293-296

 

Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on “Analytical Decomposition of the Non-Linear Unsaturated Flow Equation.” Water Resources Research, 35(2):611-612

 

Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on Application of the Water-Content-Based Form of Richards' Equation to Heterogeneous Soils by Russo and by Serrano. Water Resources Research, 35(2):611-612

 

Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on "Analytical Solutions of the Non-Linear Groundwater Flow Equation in Unconfined Aquifers and the Effect of Heterogeneity." Water Resources Research, 35(1):345-346

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996. Reply to Comment on "The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and Its Analytical Solution." Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 32(9):2967-2968

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996. Comment on "Operator and Integro-Differential Representations of Conditional and Unconditional Stochastic Subsurface Flow." Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 10(2):151-161

 

Serrano, S.E., 1993b. Reply to Comment on "The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and Its Analytical Solution." Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 29(7):2467-2468

 

Serrano, S.E., 1993. Closure to Discussion on "Migration of Chloroform in Aquifers." Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 119(4):755-756

 

Books

Serrano, S.E., 2011. Engineering Uncertainty and Risk Analysis. Second Edition. A Balanced Approach to Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Stochastic Differential Equations. ISBN 0-9655643-1-1. 478 pages, 177 solved examples, 69 short computer programs, 174 illustrations, 51 data and statistical tables, 152 proposed problems, 145 answers to problems, bibliography, references, and index. HydroScience Inc., Ambler, Pennsylvania

 

Serrano, S.E., 2010. Hydrology for Engineers, Geologists, and Environmental Professionals. An Integrated Treatment of Surface, Subsurface, and Contaminant Hydrology. Second edition revised and enlarged. ISBN: 978-0-9655643-4-2. 590 pages, 124 solved examples, 187 proposed problems, 153 illustrations, 71 tables, 46 short computer programs, answers to problems, extensive bibliography, and index. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1997. Hydrology for Engineers, Geologists, and Environmental Professionals. An Integrated Treatment of Surface, Subsurface, and Contaminant Hydrology. ISBN: 0-9655643-9-8. 470 pages, over 70 solved examples, over 150 illustrations, includes a student version of the KYSPILL software, proposed problems, chapter references, index. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

* Since its publication in April, 1997, the following institutions have adopted the book as the official textbook of hydrology in programs in civil engineering, biosystems engineering, chemical engineering, geography, hydrometeorology, and geology:

 

University of California, Davis

North Dakota State University

State University of New York

Purdue University

Tennessee State University

University of Kentucky

University of Mississippi

Kent State University

University of Findlay

Prairie View A&M University

Hardwick College

Texas A&I University

Mississippi State University

                                    Creighton University

                                    University of Arkansas

University of Nevada

University of Chicago

                                    University of Maine

                                    Southern Methodist University

                                    University Rovira i Virgili (Spain)

 

Serrano, S.E., 2010, 1997. Instructor’s Manual for: Hydrology for Engineers, Geologists, and Environmental Professionals. An Integrated Treatment of Surface, Subsurface, and Contaminant Hydrology. The complete set of overhead transparencies for class lecturing (over 150) with figures and formatted equations. Solutions to over 100 proposed problems of the book. 260 pages. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 2001. Engineering Uncertainty and Risk Analysis. A Balanced Approach to Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Stochastic Differential Equations. ISBN 0-9655643-8-X. 470 pages, 151 solved examples, 50 short computer programs, 136 figures, 51 data and statistical tables, 152 proposed problems, 145 answers to problems, bibliography, references, statistical tables, and index. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 2001. Instructor’s Manual for: Engineering Uncertainty and Risk Analysis. A Balanced Approach to Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Random Differential Equations. Instructors Manual. The complete set of overhead transparencies for class lecturing (over 150) with figures and equations formatted in WordPerfect. Solutions to all proposed problems and computer programs in the textbook (152). HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

Books in the Humanities

Published several books and book translations in various fields of the humanities. References will be supplied upon request.

 

Sample of Book Chapters

Serrano, S.E., 2002. Semigroup an Decomposition Methods in Solving Stochastic Subsurface Contamination Problems. In Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Contaminant Hydrology, edited by Rao S. Govindaraju, pp. 307-326. ASCE Press, Reston, Virginia.

 

Serrano, S.E., 1993. Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Aquifers Subject to Large Parameter Uncertainty. In Computational Stochastic Mechanics, pages 475-491, edited by A.H-D. Cheng and C.Y. Yang, Computational Mechanics Publications, Elsevier Applied Science, New York, NY

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987(1). Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Hydrology. In Stochastic Hydrology, edited by I.B. MacNeill and G.J. Umphrey, pages 113-130. D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland

 

Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1986. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems in Sobolev Space. In Multivariate Analysis of Hydrologic Processes, edited by H.W. Shen, J.T.B. Obeysekera, V. Yevjevich, and D.G. Decoursey, pp. 304-321. Engineering Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

Sample of Research Reports

Serrano, S.E., 2002. The Hydrology of Dispersion in Regional Aquifers: The Influence of Transient Boundary Conditions and Recharge. Final Report National Science Foundation

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996. A Preliminary Sampling Strategy Design for the UK Federal Facilities Oversight Unit. Report, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute. Lexington, KY

 

Serrano, S.E., 1994. The Effect of Regional Hydrologic and Hydraulic Parameters on Macrodispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Final Report, National Science Foundation

 

Serrano, S.E., 1993. Chloroform Contamination in the Louisville Aquifer: An Investigation on Its Occurrence and propagation. Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Research Report No. 187

 

Serrano, S.E., 1992. Modeling Mass Transport in Aquifers: The Distributed Source Problem (Phase II). Final Report, National Science Foundation

 

Serrano, S.E., 1990. Modeling Mass Transport in Aquifers: The Distributed Source Problem (Phase I). Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Research report No. 176

 

Serrano, S.E., 1987. Modeling Groundwater Flow Subject to Stochastic Parameters. Report to the Graduate School, University of Kentucky

 

Jousma, G., Serrano, S.E., and Molano, C., 1981. Hidrología del Area de Cúcuta, Colombian National Geological Survey INGEOMINAS, Report 1826, 150 pages

 

Serrano, S.E., 1980. Estudio Hidrogeológico de El Cerrejón. Investigación Hidrológica Preliminar. Colombian National Geological Survey INGEOMINAS, Report 1798, 31 pages

 

Other Publications

Serrano, S.E., 1995. KYSPILL: A Groundwater Pollution Modeling System. User's Manual, HydroScience Inc., 70 pages, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1994. KYSPILL: A Groundwater Pollution Forecasting System. User's Manual, HydroScience Inc., 56 pages, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1985. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems in Sobolev Space. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Waterloo, Canada

 

Serrano, S.E., 1982. A Review of Methodologies to Detect the Impact of Drainage on Streamflow. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Guelph, Canada

 

Serrano, S.E., 1976. Análisis Dimensional de Espolones Hidráulicos en Meandros. Degree Thesis, University Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

 

Published Computer Software

Serrano, S.E., 1996. KYSPILL Version 2: A Groundwater Pollution Modeling System. A menu-driven, graphics-oriented computer software to simulate chemical spills in soils and aquifers, and the propagation of contaminants through random porous media. 6 modules, online help system, graphics and self-supported windows written in C. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

* Sample institutions using KYSPILL for teaching, research, or consulting:

 

American Institute of Hydrology, University of Kansas, Colorado State University, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press, Research Institute of Natural Resources (Saudi Arabia), New Energy Techniques (Greece), University Di Perugia (Italia), University of Miami, Ondoan Corporation (Spain), University Nacional (Colombia), Hidrogeocol (Colombia), Ecole Poloytechnique de Montreal (Canada), Follin Consulting (Sweden), University of Waterloo (Canada), University of Arizona, Kansas Geological Survey, Kentucky Division of Waste Management, University of Kentucky, National Science Foundation, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of New Mexico, Lethbridge Community College (Canada), Hocol Ltda. (Colombia), Universite des Sciences de Lille (France), Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norway), Technische Universitat Clausthal (Germany), Kiso Jiban Consultants (Japan), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), University of California-Davis, Purdue University, Tennessee State University, University of Nevada-Reno, Kent State University, Prairie View A&M, University of Maryland, Texas A&I University, Universidad of Los Andes (Colombia), Environmental Strategies Corporation, Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce, Commonwealth Technology Inc.

 

Serrano, S.E., 1994. KYSPILL Version 1: A Groundwater Pollution Forecasting System. A menu-driven, graphics-oriented computer software to simulate chemical spills in soils and aquifers, and the propagation of contaminants through random porous media. 2 modules, online help system, graphics and self-supported windows written in C. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky

 

Sample of Proceedings and Conference Presentations

Serrano, S.E., and Workman S, 2010. New Approaches to the Propagation of nonlinear Transients in Porous Media. Proceedings, ECCM 2010, IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics. May 16-21, 2010, Paris, France

 

Kacimov, A., and Serrano, S.E., 2004. Dynamics of Sharp Interfaces in One-, Two-Phase Flows in Porous Media: Asymmetry in the Boussinesq and Charny Equations. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference “Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics,” Proceedings of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 50(3):1343-1347, Kiev, Ukraine, ISBN 966-02-3227

 

Ahamad, Z., and Serrano, S.E., 2001. Numerical Groundwater Modeling of Rechna Doab Flow System, Punjab-Pakistan. MODFLOW 20-01 and Other Modeling Odysseys. Conference Proceedings, Eds. Seo, Poeter, Zheng, aand Poeter, www.mines.edu/igmc/

 

Serrano, S.E., 1999. Analysis of Non-Linear Groundwater Transport Dynamics with Analytical Decomposition. Spring Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA

 

Serrano, S.E., 1998. Practical Simulation of Scale-Dependent Contaminant Dispersion in Aquifers after Chemical Spills. Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, February, 1998

 

Workman, S.R., and Serrano, S.E., 1998. Transient Water Table Predictions Using Analytical Solutions to the Boussinesq Equation. Accepted for Publication in the Proceedings of the 7th International Drainage Symposium, Orlando, Florida, February, 1998

 

Herriford, J., Brion, G.M., and Serrano, S.E., 1997. Predicting Water Treatment Plant Intake Turbidities Using Rainfall Events. Kentucky-Tennessee American Water Works Association Section Meeting, Drawbridge Estate, Kentucky, September, 1997.

 

Workman, S.R., and Serrano, S.E., 1997. Calculating Recharge to Alluvial Valley Aquifers Using Stream Elevation data and the Stream/Aquifer Model (SAM). American Society of Agricultural Engineers Annual International Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 10-14, 1997.

 

Serrano, S.E., 1994. KYSPILL: A New Generation of Simple Soil and Groundwater Pollution Software for the Early Control of Chemical Spills. Kentucky Water Resources Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1995. Una Teoría Hidrológica de Dispersión en Acuíferos Heterogeneous. Métodos Estocásticos en Hidrología Subterránea. National Conference, Madrid, Spain, June, 1995

 

Serrano, S.E., 1993. Nuevas Soluciones de las Ecuaciones de Transporte a Escala Variable en Medios Porosos. Métodos Estocásticos en Hidrología Subterránea. National Conference, Valencia, Spain, November, 1993

 

Serrano, S.E., 1990. On the Direct and Inverse Problems in Groundwater Contaminant Transport Under Large-Variance Parameter Uncertainty. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California

 

Serrano, S.E., 1989. On the Treatment of Hysteresis in Infiltration Models. Kentucky Water Resources Symposium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1989. New Semigroup Solution of the Nonlinear Unsaturated Transport Equation. XII Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

Serrano, S.E., 1988. Semigroup Solutions of the Stochastic Advective Dispersive Equation in Porous Media. 7-th Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Blacksburg, Virginia

 

Serrano, S.E., 1986. A New Approach in Groundwater Pollution Modeling. Conference of the Ohio River Consortium for Research and Education, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1985. Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Hydrology. Symposium on Statistics and Stochastics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

 

Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1985. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems in Sobolev Space. 4-th International Hydrology Symposium, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

Sample of Invited Presentations

Serrano, S.E., 2010. Fenómenos Estocásticos no Lineales. Invited presentation, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, Spain, July, 2010

 

Serrano, S.E., 2010. Sistemas no Lineales en el Análisis del Medio Ambiente. Invited presentation, Department of Agronomy and Soil Science, University of Córdoba, Spain, July, 2010

 

Serrano, S.E., 2009. El Futuro del la Hidrogeología: Los Fenómenos Nolineales y Estocásticos. Invited Keynote Speaker, III Colombian Congress of Hydrogeology, Bogotá, Colombia, July 2009.

 

Serrano, S.E., 2008. The Physics of Nonlinear Phenomena: A Key to Understanding Global Climate Change. University of Texas, Arlington

 

Serrano, S. E., 2003. Analysis of Nonlinear Environmental Dynamics with Analytical Decomposition. Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

Serrano, S. E., 2001. Semigroup and Decomposition Methods in Non-Linear Subsurface Hydrology. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

 

Serrano, S.E., 1998. Exploration of Non-Linear Environmental Dynamics with Analytical Decomposition. Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego, CA

 

Serrano, S.E., 1996. A New Theory of Hydrologic Dispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

Serrano, S.E., 1995. KYSPILL: A User Friendly Software for Modeling Groundwater Pollution. Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1994. Modeling the Propagation of Organic Contaminants in Soils. University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

 

Serrano, S.E., 1992. Modeling Mass Transport in Aquifers. Second Forum on the National Science Foundation Research Activities in Subsurface Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

Serrano, S.E., 1991. Direct and Inverse Problems of the Stochastic Dispersion in Aquifers. Seminar on Computational Methods in Transport Phenomena. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1989. Effect of Rainfall Variability and Hysteresis on Subsurface Flow. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California

 

Serrano, S.E., 1989. Hydrology and the Environment. Part of the course GS600 Environmental Systems. Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1988. Introduction to Water Resources Engineering. Part of the course CE121 Civil Engineering Systems, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Serrano, S.E., 1987. Introduction to Water Resources Engineering. Part of the course CE121 Civil Engineering Systems, Lexington, Kentucky