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Eugene Pawlak is a Professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering, specializing in coastal estuarine turbulent mixing processes and their interactions with topographic features. His research focuses on environmental hydrodynamics and explores the role of flow structure in mass and momentum transport. Pawlak's work is particularly interested in the mechanisms behind boundary layer separation and hydraulic flow response, with an emphasis on the dynamics of steady and oscillating flows over irregular boundaries. Key areas of his interest include the influence of boundary dynamics on sediment transport and geochemical exchange processes, as well as effects of offshore forcing on near-shore dynamics. Further research interests encompass cross-shore exchange processes, interactions between flow and biological systems, stratified turbulence, and applications of autonomous vehicles in laboratory experimental methods. Before joining the Jacobs School of Engineering, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A UC San Diego alumnus, he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences in 1997.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).