Justin E. Warren joined the second IPER class in the fall of 2003. Previously he worked in the software development group at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center as a flight simulation engineer for the hypersonic X-43a experimental aircraft and F-15 advanced formation flight program. In 2002 he completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Southern California where he focused on interplanetary and EOS spacecraft design and geophysical fluid dynamics. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Renaissance Prize for highest achievement in the integration of diversified studies: aerospace engineering, German, and East Asian languages and cultures. Study of polar and glacial ice flows, river dynamics, and flow visualization methods have led him to remote regions of the Yukon Territory and Patagonia, as well as an internship with the Coriolis large-scale test facility at the Université Josef Fourier in Grenoble, France. In 2000, he took a year off from USC to investigate urban and agricultural environmental issues while interning at the Plus-Gangyan Orthopedics Corporation in Beijing, China, as well to take part in a cooperative work program with NASA.
Justin joined the program at Stanford in order to integrate his technical interest in geophysical fluid dynamics with a deep concern for seeing this knowledge applied to the solution of socially critical environmental problems on a global scale. His current research is exploring the influence of near-shore circulation, internal waves and warning compliance on management policies aimed at reducing the health impacts of authochonous water-borne bacteria at public beaches in southern California.
Clarification of these complex interactions will hopefully provide a framework to approach similar more critical problems in Southeast Asia where changing agricultural practices appear to be increasing cholera incidence through a complex epidemiology founded in the coastal ocean flow patterns.
Justin was raised in Washington D.C., Utah, Iowa, Michigan, and California and is currently at Stanford on a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. His hobbies often involve bare feet, bicycles, and beaches.