Georgia Tech’s Dr. Don Webster
September 2, 2022
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences hosted its first Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Don Webster, the Karen and John Huff School Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Georgia. His seminar topic was “Structure and Mixing of a Turbulent Meandering Chemical Plume.” The seminar was held at the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium at 2:30 p.m. on September 2, 2022 and attended by faculty, staff and graduate students.
Dr. Webster earned a B.S. from the University of California, Davis (1989), and M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in September 1997 after completing a postdoctoral research appointment at Stanford University and holding a non-tenure-track faculty position at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Webster’s research expertise lies in environmental fluid mechanics focused on the influence of fluid motion and turbulence on biological systems. His contributions have been in three arenas: 1) illuminating the fluid mechanics processes related to sensory biology and bio-mechanics; 2) developing advanced experimental techniques and facilities; and 3) translating research results into bio-inspired design. In recognition of these contributions, Dr. Webster is a Sustaining Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and has won numerous awards including the Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award, Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award, the Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award, and the British Petroleum Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
