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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank and acknowledge the following
Dr. Ming Ye of the Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University for his
guidance, feedback and contributions to this work. I would also like to thank him for his
patience, understanding and willingness to teach. I am certainly pleased to have an
advisor like him
Dr. William Parker of the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences,
Florida State University for his help on statistics. I would also like to thank him for a lot
of support, encouragement and in general a huge amount of help.
Dr. Francois Oehler, of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (New
Zealand) for his assistance and generosity in sharing his dataset and codes with me. I also
appreciate the time he took to talk to me about denitrification. His enthusiastic response
to my request for data and codes and his willingness share his knowledge and data is
immensely appreciated.
Dr. Paul Z. Lee and Mr. Rick Hicks of the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection for their input and valuable contributions during the entire development
process.
Dr. Liying Wang of the Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University for
her input regarding the denitrification model.
Mr. Fernando Rios of the Department of Scientific Computing for his contributions
toward the development of the GIS based denitrification model.
Dr. Leroy Odom, for his generosity, support and in general being a really wonderful
person that is always willing to help in any way that he can.
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