Bruce Wilson

Bruce Wilson
Professor
He/him
[email protected]
+1 612 625 6770
205 BioAgEng Building

1390 Eckles Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Education
  • Ph.D. - Agricultural Engineering.  University of Kentucky.
  • M.S. - Agricultural Engineering.  University of Minnesota.
  • B.S. - Agricultural Engineering.  University of Minnesota. 

Areas of Interest

Water Resources and Ecological Engineering

Biography

Bruce Wilson was a member of the faculty at Oklahoma State University for eight years and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1991. Dr. Wilson has extensive modeling and experimental background in erosion mechanics and in hydrologic/water quality processes of watersheds resulting in many technical publications. With the assistance of Minnesota Department of Transportation, Dr. Wilson established an erosion certification program for construction sites that has taught more than 30,000 attendees. Dr. Wilson has been the instructor for numerous undergraduate and graduate courses.

Teaching

  • BBE 3043:  Biological and Environmental Thermodynamics
  • BBE 5513: Watershed Engineering
  • BBE 8013: Parameter Estimation in Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
  • BBE 8513: Hydrologic Modeling of Small Watersheds

Research

Quantity and quality of surface waters, especially as influenced by agricultural practices; flow pathways of water flows; hydraulics of flow in erodible channels; hydrologic/water quality modeling of disturbed and agricultural watersheds; parameter estimation and uncertainty; development of ecological engineering design tools.

Novel Monitoring Designs for Runoff from Storm Events

Select Publications

  • Ebrahimian, A., B.N. Wilson and J.S. Gulliver. 2016. Improved methods to estimate the effective impervious area in urban catchments using rainfall-runoff data. J. Hydrology.
  • Moriasi,D.N.,  R.W. Zeckoski, J.G. Arnold, C.B. Baffaut, R.W. Malone, P. Daggupati, J.A. Guzman, D. Saraswat, Y. Yuan, B.W. Wilson, A. Shirmohammadi, and K.R. Douglas-Mankin. 2016. Hydrologic and water quality models: key calibration and validation topics.  Transaction of the ASABE,
  • Ebrahimian, A., B.N. Wilson, and J.S. Gulliver. 2016. Improved methods to estimate the effective impervious area in urban catchments using rainfall-runoff data. Journal of Hydrology, 536: 109-118.
  • Ebrahimian, A., J.S. Gulliver and B.N. Wilson. 2016. Effective Impervious Area for Runoff in Urban Watersheds. Hydrological Processes. 30: 3717-3729.
  • Perkins, R., B.N. Wilson, J.S. Gulliver, and B. Hansen. 2017. Relation between suspended sediment concentration and turbidity at construction sites.  J of Soil and Water Conservation. 72(1): 26-35.
  • Smith, J.W., E. Seekamp, A. McCreary, M. Davenport, M. Kanazawa, K. Holmberg, B. Wilson and J. Nieber. 2017. Shifting Demand for Winter Outdoor Recreation and Tourism along the North Shore of Lake Superior Under Variable Rates of Climate Change: A Finite-mixture Modeling Approach, J. of Environmental Management.
  • Haibo W., B. N. Wilson, D. R. Schmidt. 2017. Biofilter Model Development For The Removal Of Pollutants From Feedlot Runoff. Environment Protection Engineering, Vol. 43(3): 61-80, DOI: 10.5277/epe170304.
  • Krider,L., J. Magner, B. Hansen, B. N. Wilson, G. Kramer, J. Peterson, and J. Nieber. 2017.  Improvements in fluvial stability associated with two - stage ditch construction in Mower County, Minnesota, JAWA, Vol 53(4):886-902, DOI: 10.111/1752-1699.12541.
  • Kanazawaa, M.,  B.N. Wilson, and K. Holmberg. 2018. Local consequences of climate change:  State park visitations on the North Shore of Minnesota, Water Resources and Economics. 12th Annual Meeting.
  • Ebrahimian, A., J.S. Gulliver and B.N. Wilson. 2018. Estimating effective impervious area in urban watersheds using land cover, soil character and asymptotic curve number Hydrological Sciences Journal 63 (4): 513-526..
  • Hestetune, A., McCreary, A., Holmberg, K., Wilson, B., Seekamp, E., Davenport, M. A., & Smith, J. W. (2018). Climate change and the demand for summer visitation on Minnesota’s North Shore. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. Vol 24: 21-25.
  • Asmus DeZiel,. D., L. Krider, J. Magner, B. Hansen, B. Wilson, G. Kramer, J. Nieber. 2019. Habitat improvements and fish community response associated with two - stage ditch construction in Mower County, MN, JAWA, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12713.
  • Woyessa, Y.E. & Wilson, B.N., 2020, ‘Impact of climate change on water security in a semi-arid river basin’, in N.A. Kgabi (ed.), Integrated Transboundary Water–Climate Management Tools (Water Security and Climate Adaptation in Southern Africa Volume 1), pp. 13–38, AOSIS, Cape Town. https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2020.BK205.02

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Graduate Teaching Faculty Award, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota
  • Fellow, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Faculty Award, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota
  • Charles E. Bowers Faculty Teaching Award, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Innovation Award, Minnesota Erosion Control Association