Barry M. Lesht

Physicist/Environmental Systems
Atmospheric Research Section, Environmental Research Division
Associate Director, Environmental Research Division
Section Head (Acting), Terrestrial Section, Environmental Research Division
bmlesht@anl.gov

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

B.A., Earth Sciences, 1971, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
M.S., Geophysical Sciences, 1973, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, 1977, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Analysis of satellite remote sensing data for studies of aquatic and atmospheric processes. Application of combinatorial optimization and spatial analysis to the design and analysis of environmental sampling networks. Systems analysis and modeling of environmental systems including nonparametric statistical analysis of environmental data. Experimental studies of marine and aquatic interfacial exchange processes, particularly those at the sediment water interface.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Rockwell, D.C., Salisbury, D.K., and Lesht, B.M., "Water Quality in the Middle Great Lakes: Results of the 1985 Survey of Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report 905/6-89-001, Great Lakes National Program office, Chicago, IL, 207 p. (1989).

Wesely, M.L., and Lesht, B.M., "Comparison of RADM Dry Deposition Algorithms With a Site Specific Method for Inferring Dry Deposition," Water, Air, and Soil Poll. 44, 273-293 (1989).

Lesht, B.M., "Review of "Nearshore Dynamics and Coastal Processes: Theory Measurement, and Predictive Models," J. Geology 97:650-651 (1989).

Lesht, B.M., "Climatology of Sediment Transport on Indiana Shoals, Lake Michigan," J. Great Lakes Res. 15:486-497 (1989).

Lesht, B.M., "Design of an Optimal Tributary Monitoring Strategy for Estimating Contaminant Loads," Intern. J. Environmental Studies (B) 37:225-234 (1991).

Lesht, B.M., Fontaine, T.D., and Dolan, D.M., "Great Lakes Total Phosphorus Model: Postaudit and Regionalized Sensitivity Analysis," J. Great Lakes Res. 17:3-17 (1991).

Lesht, B.M. and Brandner, D.J., "Functional Representation of Great Lakes Surface Temperatures," J. Great Lakes Res. 18:98-107 (1992).

Hawley, N. and Lesht, B.M., "Sediment Resuspension in Lake St. Clair," Limnology and Oceanography 37:1720-1737 (1992).

Lesht, B.M., "Quantification and Reduction of the Uncertainty in Mass Balance Models by Monte Carlo Analysis of Prior Data", in: DePinto, J. and Manno, J. (Eds). "Reducing Uncertainty in Mass Balance Models for Toxics: Lake Ontario Case Study," Great Lakes Monograph No. 4, Great Lakes Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, pp. 106-124, (1993).

Hawley, N. and Lesht, B.M., "Does Local Resuspension Maintain the Benthic Nepheloid Layer in Southeastern Lake Michigan?," J. Sediment. Res. 65:69-76 (1995).

Lesht, B.M., "An Evaluation of Arm Radiosonde Operational Performance," In: Proceedings of Ninth Symposium on Meteorological Observations and instrumentation, 27-31 March 1995, Charlotte, NC, American Meteorological Society, pp. 6-10 (1995).