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
Phone: (352) 392-1864 x279
Fax: (352) 392-4092
Email: chrisjm@ufl.edu

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.