Christopher J. Martinez, Ph.D
Object-Oriented Hydrological, Ecological, and Biogeochemical Watershed
Model Development
Christopher J. Martinez, Ph.D
279 Frazier Rogers Hall
PO Box 110570, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
This series of projects employs
object-oriented programming and design to
easily adapt existing hydrologic and water
quality models to custom applications. To
date this approach has been applied to:
• Design a modeling system for southern
African hydrology (link).
• Develop a hydrologic model for humid,
shallow water table conditions (link).
• Phosphorus cycling and export from
pastures in the Lake Okeechobee
watershed.
• Cattle movement in response to
environmental factors and the implications
on forage utilization and phosphorus
pollution.
• Hydrology and nutrient cycling in
plastic-mulched raised-bed agricultural
fields.
Future applications may include:
• Hydrological and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in the urban/suburban
landscape.
• Development of watershed modeling educational tools which will facilitate student
learning of hydrological processes by allowing the student to model watershed
responses using varying approaches with different degrees of approximation.