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Francina Dominguez (co-advised by Prof. Chris Castro) | SAHRA, Marshall Bldg | 217-493-3037 | SAHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate | Oct 2006 - ongoing | Integrated Modeling / Downscaling / Hydroclimatology / Precipitation Recycling / Scenario Analysis | HWR/ATMO | SAHRA | |||
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Yuqiong Liu | SAHRA Room 535, Marshall Bldg | 520-626-8799 | SAHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate | Oct 2003 - ongoing | Integrated Modeling / Data Assimilation / Scenario Analysis | HWR | SAHRA | |||
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Steven Stewart | SAHRA Room 545, Marshall Bldg | 520-626-3892 | sstewart@sahra.arizona.edu | SAHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate | March 2004 - ongoing | Integrated Modeling / Socio-economic factors | Economics | SAHRA | ||
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Gabriel Abramowitz (primary research advisor Prof. Andy Pitman) | Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | gabsun@gmail.com | Ph.D (Macquarie U) | April 2007 - ongoing | Data Assimilation & Model Bias Identification | GEOG | CSIRO | |||
Current PhD Students |
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Koray Yilmaz | HWR Room 314C, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | Ph.D | 2007 | Hydrologic Modeling for Ungaged basins | HWR | RS | SAHRA/ NWS/ SRP | ||
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Mohammed Mahmoud | HWR Room 320, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-621-3041 | mahmoud@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2007 | Scenario analysis for Water Resources Decision Making | HWR | CE | SAHRA | |
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Natasha Bulygina | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | nbulygina@tucson.ars.ag.gov | Ph.D | 2007 | KINEROS-based modeling of semi-arid regions | HWR | ? | USDA-ARS | |
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Anne Stewart | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | astewart@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2008 | KINEROS-based modeling of semi-arid regions | HWR | ? | HWR/ NWS/ USGS | |
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Seshadri Rajagopal | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | seshadri@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2009 | Distributed Modeling Of The Colorado River Basin | HWR | ? | HWR/ SRP | |
Current MS Students |
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Prafulla Pokhrel | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | pokhrel@hwr.arizona.edu | M.S. | 2006 | Calibration of distributed flood forecasting models for the NWS | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |
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Guillermo Felipe | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | gfmb@hwr.arizona.edu | M.S. | 2007 | Diagnostic Evaluation of Watershed Models |
HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |
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Andrew Neal | SAHRA, Marshall Bldg | 315-427-1806 | aneal@hwr.arizona.edu | M.S. | 2008 | Quality Control for Hydrometeorological data | HWR | NA | SAHRA | |
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Viviana Lopez Burgos | HWR Room 314D, Harshbarger Bldg | 520-626-9712 | viviana@hwr.arizona.edu | M.S. | 2009 | Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology | HWR | NA | HWR/ NASA/ GEM | |
Previous Students Supervised Now in Faculty Positions |
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Thorsten Wagener | Now on Faculty at Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State University | 814-865-5673 | SAHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate | Aug 2002 – Aug 2004 | Integrated Modeling & Assessment / Model Identification / Scenario Analysis | HWR | SAHRA/ DAAD German Fellowship Foundation | |||
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Hamid Moradkhani | Now on Faculty at Portland State University | 949-824-9350 | Ph.D (UCI) | 2004 | Stochastic Hydrology / Model Calibration / Data Assimilation | HWR | HWR/ NASA | |||
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Terri Sue Hogue | Now on Faculty at Univ. California at Los Angeles | 310-794-4239 | M.S./ Ph.D | 1998/2003 | Hydrologic Modeling / Land Surface Interactions / Effects of Fire | HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |||
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Luis A Bastidas | Now on Faculty at Civil and Env. Engg., Utah State University | 435-797-8228 | SAHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate | Jan 1999 – Jul 2002 | Integrated Modeling / Modeling of semi-arid regions / Multi-Criteria Analysis | HWR | HWR/ NSF/ SAHRA | |||
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Douglas Boyle | Now on Faculty at Desert Research Institute | 775-673-7441 | Ph.D | 2001 | Hydrologic Modeling |
HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |||
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Shayesteh Mahani | Now on Faculty at NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing STC | 212-650-8440 | Ph.D | 2000 | Remote Sensing Applications | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NASA | ||
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Thomas Meixner | Now on Faculty at HWR/UA | 520-626-1532 | Ph.D | 1999 | Water Quality Modeling | HWR | HWR/ NASA | |||
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Kuolin L Hsu | Now on Faculty at Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing at Univ. California at Irvine | 949-824-8826 | HWR Postdoctoral Research Associate | Jan 1997 – Jul 2002 | Estimation of Precipitation using Satellite Remote Sensing Data | HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NOAA/ NSF/ SAHRA | |||
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Xiaogang Gao | Now on Faculty at Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing at Univ. California at Irvine | 949-824-8826 | HWR Postdoctoral Research Associate | Aug 1993 – Jul 1995 | Regional Coupled Land-Atmosphere Modeling | HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NOAA/ NSF/ SAHRA | |||
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Karen S. Humes | Now on Faculty at Department of Geography, Univ. of Idaho | 208-885-6216 | Ph.D | 1991 | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NASA/ NSF | |||
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Mark J. Walker | Now on Faculty at Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, U Nevada, Reno |
775-784-1938 | M.S. | 1984 | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |||
Previous Students Supervised |
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Soni Yatheendradas | Now at New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology | Ph.D | 2007 | Flashflood Forecasting for the Semi-arid Southwestern US | HWR | SIE | SAHRA/ NWS/ SRP |
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Felipe Ip | University of Arizona | felipe@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2006 | Improvements to Flood Detection and Monitoring Through Satellite On-Board Autonomy, Ground-Based Flood Sensorweb, and Multi-Sensor Flood Sensorweb | HWR | RS | SAHRA | ||
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Newsha Khodatalab | Now at Univ. California at Irvine | 949-824-9350 | nkhodata@uci.edu | M.S.(UA)/ Ph.D(UCI) |
2003/2006 | Distributed Hydrological Modeling for NWS | HWR | HWR/ NWS | ||
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Hamid Moradkhani | Now on Faculty at Portland State University | 949-824-9350 | moradkha@uci.edu | Ph.D (UCI) | 2004 | Improved Uncertainty Assessment of Hydrologic Models Using Data Assimilation and Stochastic Filtering | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA | |
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Jasper Vrugt (primary research advisor Prof. Willem Bouten) | Now at Los Alamos National Labs | vrugt@lanl.gov | Ph.D (Univ. of Amsterdam) | 2004 | Towards Improved Treatment of Parameter Uncertainty in Hydrologic Modeling | Institute for Biodiversity | UvA/ NWO | |||
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Eylon Shamir (primary research advisor Dr. Bisher Imam) | Now at Hydrologic Research Center | (858) 794 -2726 | eshamir@hrc-lab.org | Ph.D | 2003 | Topics in Hydrograph Analyses & Hydrologic Models | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |
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Feyzan Misirli | Now in Turkey | feyzan@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2003 | Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness of Bayesian Recursive Parameter Estimation for Hydrologic Model | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | ||
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Terri Sue Hogue (primary research advisor Dr. Luis Bastidas) | Now on Faculty at Univ. California at Los Angeles | 310-794-4239 | thogue@seas.ucla.edu | M.S./ Ph.D | 1998/2003 | Analysis of the National Weather Service Soil Moisture Accounting Models for Flood Prediction in the Northeast Floods of January 1996 / A Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Land-Surface Models and Application to Semi-Arid Regions | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |
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Yuqiong Liu | Now at SAHRA/UA | 520-626-8799 | yqliu@sahra.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2003 | Parameter Estimation for Locally Coupled Land Surface-Atmosphere Models | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |
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Douglas Boyle | Now on Faculty at Desert Research Institute | 775-673-7441 | Doug.Boyle@dri.edu | Ph.D | 2001 | Multi-criteria Calibration of Hydrologic Models |
HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |
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Shayesteh Mahani (primary research advisor Prof. Xiaogang Gao) | Now on Faculty at NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing STC | 212-650-8440 | mahani@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 2000 | Improving High-Resolution IR Satellite-based Precipitation: A Procedure for Cloud Top Displacement | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NASA | |
| Srinivasa Raghava | M.S. | 2002 | A New Heuristic for Nonlinear Multi-Objective Optimization | HWR | NA | HWR/ NASA/ NWS | |||||
| Savya Srinivas | M.S. | 2001 | Uncertainty Estimates for a Neural Network Model and its Application in Hydrological Simulation | ||||||||
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Thomas Meixner (primary research advisor Prof. Roger Bales) | Now on Faculty at HWR/UA | 520-626-1532 | tmeixner@hwr.arizona.edu | Ph.D | 1999 | Alpine Biogeochemical Modeling: Case Studies, Improvements and Parameter Estimation | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA | |
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Luis A Bastidas | Now on Faculty at Civil and Env. Engg., Utah State University | 435-797-8228 | luis.bastidas@usu.edu | Ph.D | 1998 | Parameter Estimation for Hydro-meteorological Models Using Multi-Criteria Methods | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NSF/ NASA | |
| Liming Xu (primary research advisor Prof. Xiaogang Gao) | Ph.D | 1998 | Estimating Rainfall from Satellite Infrared Imagery using Artificial Neural Networks | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NSF/ NASA | |||||
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Kuolin L Hsu (jointly advised by Prof. Xiaogang Gao) | Now on Faculty at Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing at Univ. California at Irvine | 949-824-8826 | kuolinh@uci.edu | Ph.D | 1996 | Rainfall Estimation from Satellite Infrared Imagery Using Artificial Neural Networks | HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NOAA/ NSF | ||
| Patrice Yapo | Now with United Airlines | M.S./Ph.D. | 1992/1996 | A Markov Chain Flow Model with Application to Flood Forecasting / A Multi-objective Global Optimization Algorithm with Application to Calibration of Hydrologic Models | SIE | HWR | HWR/ NASA/ NOAA/ NSF | ||||
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Michael Thiemann | Now with Riversided Technology Inc., Fort Collins CO | 970-484-7573 | gremi@prodigy.net | M.S. | 1999 | Uncertainty Estimation of Hydrologic Models Using Bayesian Inference Methods | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |
| Michael Winchell | Now with Stone Environmental | 802-229-1882 | mwinchell@stone-env.com | M.S. | 1997 | Effects of Radar-estimated Precipitation Uncertainty on Rainfall-Runoff Modeling | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | ||
| Rajesh Kaveti | M.S. | 1996 | Linking an Inter-storm Model to a Storm Model | HWR | NA | HWR/ NASA | |||||
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Xiaogang Gao (primary research advisor Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian) | Now on Faculty at Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing at Univ. California at Irvine | 949-824-8826 | gaox@uci.edu | Ph.D | 1993 | Modeling of Rainfall Distribution, Runoff Processes, and Examination of Model Sensitivity in the Context of Land-Atmosphere Interactions | HWR | ? | HWR/ NASA/ NOAA/ NSF | |
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Karen S. Humes (primary research advisor Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian) | Now on Faculty at Department of Geography, Univ. of Idaho | 208-885-6216 | khumes@uidaho.edu | Ph.D | 1991 | The Estimation and Scaling of Land-Surface Fluxes of Latent and Sensible Heat with Remotely Sensed Data over Grassland Sites | HWR | Remote Sensing | HWR/ NASA/ NSF | |
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Qingyun Duan | Now with Lawrence Livermore Labs | 925-422-7704 |
duan2@llnl.gov | Ph.D | 1991 | A Global Optimization Strategy for Efficient and Effective Calibration of Hydrologic Models | HWR | ? | HWR/ NSF/ NWS | |
| Walter T Weinig | M.S. | 1991 | Calibration of the Soil Moisture Accounting Model Using the Adaptive Random Search Algorithm | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |||||
| Arthur Armour | M.S. | 1990 | Adaptive Random Search Evaluated as a Method for Calibration of the SMA-NWSRFS Model | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |||||
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Christopher Smith (primary research advisor Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian) | Now with USGS in Tucson, AZ | 520-670-6671 | M.S. | 1986 | Evaluating Three-Fitting Criteria for the Calibration of the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | ||
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Mark J. Walker (primary research advisor Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian) | Now on Faculty at Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Univ. of Nevada, Reno |
775-784-1938 | mwalker@unr.edu | M.S. | 1984 | The Effect of Alternating Automatic Calibration Techniques on Parameter Estimation of HEC-1 | HWR | NA | HWR/ NWS | |
