Prof. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson received his B.S. from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, in 1985 and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He is a professor at the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department at the University of Florida. He is a recipient of a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation, a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship in Chile, a Gledden Fellowship from the University of Western Australia, a Fellowship from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, a Visiting Fellowship from the Chilean Science Foundation, a Visiting Professorship from Utrecht University, and a Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Spain. He was named a Distinguished Professor by the Northern Catholic University of Chile and a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Dr. Valle-Levinson is interested in studying the effects of bathymetry on volume exchange at the mouth of semienclosed basins, with emphases on estuaries, fjords, coastal lagoons, and bays.