My work combines innovative approaches to isolate hydrological processes and engage people across scales with the hope to improve the representation of societal interaction with water resources. It is only through such refinement of process understanding that we can improve our resource management in the face of coupled climate and land-use change.

 

Can we characterize how landscapes and water interact across scales? Unraveling these feedbacks has significant implications for the viability of strategies associated with the current and future sustainability of coupled terrestrial and aquatic systems – particularly those for improving water quality in working landscapes. Using combined innovative approaches to isolate hydrological processes and engage people across scales, my research hopes to improve the representation of societal interaction with water resources to explore how we can target and prioritize conservation efforts along river networks to re-connect floodplains thereby promoting ecosystem functionality and benefits for both upstream and downstream communities. It is only through such refinement of understanding that we can improve our resource management in the face of coupled climate and land-use change.

 

Recently, I have been working at the intersection of hydrological tracers and water chemistry sampling and hydrometric instrumentation, measurements and sensors. My research leverages geographical information systems (GIS), remote sensing products, and geostatistical approaches. Quantitatively, I’m routinely working with hydrological and natural resources models for hypothesis testing connected to real-world data.