Randall Kolar

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Randall Kolar

CEES Director and Professor

Email: kolar@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-4267
Office: Carson Engineering Center, Room 334

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Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (1992)
The University of Notre Dame

M.S., Civil Engineering (1983)
University of Idaho

B.S., Mathematics (1983)
University of Idaho

Research Focus

Computational issues in water resources

Experience and Awards

Lead investigator for subcontract with NOAA and UNC’s DHS Center of Excellence: Coastal Hazards Center and U. Delaware’s NSF Hazards SEES. Responsible for coupling of upland hydrology model to the coastal hydrodynamic model, ADCIRC. This system was put into pseudo-operational mode in June 2010 to provide guidance to emergency managers. Current work couples it to an evacuation/sheltering model.
Assoc. Director of the WaTER (Water Technologies of Emerging Regions) Center at OU. Assisted with Center formation in 2006 and helped develop its vision and mission. Assist with Center activities, including educational programs, biennial WaTER Prize and Symposium, hosting the OU Int’l WaTER Conference, and development work.
Awards for research and educational initiatives: David Ross Boyd Professorship (2014), OU Presidential Prof. (2008), the College Teaching Award (2007-2008), OK Regent’s Award for Superior Teaching (2006), the College Teaching Scholar Award (2005), ASEE’s Dow Outstanding New Faculty Member Award (2000), OU’s BP/Amoco Good Teaching Award (2000), and OK Regents’ Williams Innovator Award (2000), and the OK Regents’ Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999)

Selected Publications

K.M. Geohegan, P. Fitzpatrick, R.L. Kolar, and K.M. Dresback, “Evaluation of a Synthetic Rainfall Model, P-CLIPER, for Use in Coastal Flooding”, Natural Haz., 92(2), pp. 699- 726, 2018.
C.M. Szpilka, K.M. Dresback, R.L. Kolar, C. Massey, “Improvements for the Eastern North Pacific ADCIRC Tidal Database (ENPAC15)”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 6(4), 131; doi: 10.3390/jmse6040131, 2018.
R.A. Davidson, L.K. Nozick, T. Wachtendorf, B.O. Blanton, B. Colle, R.L. Kolar, S. DeYoung, K.M. Dresback, W. Yi, K. Yang, N. Leonard, “An Integrated Scenario Ensemble-Based Framework for Hurricane Evacuation Modeling: Part 1- Decision Support System,” Risk Analysis, doi:10.1111/risa.12990, 2018.
B. Blanton, B. Colle, R. Kolar, K. Dresback, H. Vergara, N. Leonardo, Y. Hong, et al., “An Integrated Scenario Ensemble-Based Framework for Hurricane Evacuation Modeling: Part 2-Hazard Modeling,” doi: 10.1111/risa.13004, Risk Analysis, 2018.
H. Vergara, P. Kirstetter, J.J. Gourley, Z.L. Flamig, Y. Hong, A. Arthur, R.L. Kolar, “Esimating A-priori Kinematic Wave Model Parameters Based on Regionalization for Flash Flood Forecasting in the Conterminous US,” J. of Hydrology, 541, pp 421-433, 2016.
G.A. Fox, A. Sheshukov, R. Cruse, R.L. Kolar, et al., “Reservoir Sedimentation and Upstream Sediment Sources: Perspectives and Future Research Needs on Streambank and Gully Erosion,” Environmental Management, 57(5), pp. 945-955, 2016.
D. Sabatini, J. Chamberlain, R. Dreibelbis, Y. Hong, R. Kolar, R. Knox, and R. Nairn, “The University of Oklahoma WaTER Center - Water Security: Quantity, Quality, Equity,” Water Resources Impact (special issue on Hydrophilanthropy), 18(1), pp. 17-19, 2016.
K. Dresback, et al., “Skill Assessment of a Prototype Total Water Level Operational Forecast System During Hurricane Irene (2011),” Cont. Shelf Res., 71, pp. 78-94, 2013. 5/29/20
G. Smith, J. Whitehead, N. Kazi, J. Park, J. Pine, R. Kolar, D. Sander, E. Thomas, “Aggregate Flood Hazard Risk Reduction Scoping Project,” Report to: DHS Coastal Hazards Center, 78 pp., 2013.
S. Van Cooten, et al., “The CI-FLOW Project: A System for Total Water Level Prediction from the Summit to the Sea,” B. of the American Metr. Soc., 92 (11), pp. 1427-1442, 2011.