- Mar. 2024, Kaustubh's paper titled "Imprint of urbanization on snow precipitation over the continental USA" published in Nature Communications. Congratulations Kaustubh!
- Dec., 2023, Paper titled "Water scarcity challenges across urban regions with expanding irrigation" accepted in ERL. Congratulations Lokendra!
- Nov., 2023, Paper titled "Examining the water scarcity vulnerability in US river basins due to changing climate" accepted in GRL.
- Oct., 2023, Project on "Scaling-Up Transformative Adaptation through Socio-Agroclimatology" funded by NSF.
- June, 2023. Sungyoon's paper titled "Rain-fed to irrigation-fed transition of agriculture exacerbates meteorological drought in cropped regions but moderates elsewhere" published in Environmental Research Letters. Congratulations Sungyoon!
- May, 2023: Parnian Ghaneei is awarded the Alabama Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) Fellowship to study groundwater recharge in US forests. Congratulations Parnian!
- Oct, 2022. Project on "Capturing the dynamics of compound flooding" funded by DOE.
- Oct., 2022. Georgios's paper titled "Influence of shallow groundwater evapotranspiration on recharge estimation using the water table fluctuation method" published in Water Resources Research. Congratulations Georgios!
- Oct. 2022, Kaustubh's paper titled "Sensitivity of traffic speed to rainfall" published in Weather, Climate, and Society. Congratulation Kaustubh!
- Aug., 2022. Kaustubh's paper titled "Rainfall-induced hydroplaning risk over road infrastructure of the continental USA" published in PlosOne. Congratulations Kaustubh!
- Aug. 2022, Pushpendra's paper titled "Vegetation index-based partitioning of evapotranspiration is deficient in grazed systems" published in Water Resources Research. Congratulation Pushpendra!
- July, 2022. Project on "Research to Operations in Data-driven Hydrologic Forecasting and Decision-making" funded by NSF.
- May 2022: Paper titled "Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities". published in Earth-Science Reviews. Congratulations Nishani!
- Apr. 2022: Paper titled "Seasonality of inundation in geographically isolated wetlands across the United States". published in Environmental Research Letters. Congratulations Junehyeong!
- Mar. 2022: Arik's paper titled "A calibration-free groundwater module for improving predictions of low flows" published in Water Resources Research. Congratulations Arik!
- Sep. 2021: Paper titled "Retrieving gap-free daily root zone soil moisture using surface flux equilibrium theory" is published in Environmental Research Letters. Congratulations Pushpendra!
- Aug., 2020: Project on "Harnessing big hydrological datasets for integrated groundwater management" funded by NSF.
- July 2020: Xing Chen's paper titled "Impact of gully incision on hillslope hydrology" is published in Hydrological Processes. Congratulations Xing!
- June, 2020: Sungyoon Kim is awarded the Alabama Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) Fellowship to study the impacts of irrigation on precipitation. Congratulations Yoon!
- May 2020: Last chapter of Yanlan's dissertation is published in Nature Climate Change. The paper is titled "Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration". Congratulations Yanlan!
- April, 2020: Project titled "Predicting pavement weather to support winter weather operations in Alabama" funded by ALDOT.
- Apr. 2020: Former PhD student, Yanlan Liu to start faculty position at Ohio State University in Fall, 2021. Congratulations Yanlan!
- Dec. 2019: Junehyeong's paper titled "Spatial and temporal variations in the groundwater contributing areas of inland wetlands" published in Hydrological Processes. Congratulations Junehyeong!
- Oct. 2019: Work on early warning signal of forest mortality chronicled my numerous media outlets including PBS, EOS, Phys.org, ZMEscience, Cosmos, and NBC and FOX affiliates.
- Oct. 2019: Yanlan's paper titled "Reduced resilience as an early warning signal of forest mortality" published in Nature Climate Change. Congratulations Yanlan!
- Aug., 2019: Tan's paper titled "Intercomparing varied erosion, deposition, and transport process representations for simulating sediment yields" published in Nature-Scientific Reports. Congratulations Tan!
- July, 2019: Chris's paper titled "Gradient-based inverse estimation for a rainfall-runoff model" published in Water Resources Research. Congratulations Chris!
- July, 2019: Project titled "Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Deep South: A Latent System Primed for Transition From Rain-fed to Irrigation-fed Agriculture" funded by NSF.
- July, 2019: Bijan's paper on "How Surface Radiation on Forested Snowpack Changes across a Latitudinal Gradient" published in Hydrology.
- Feb., 2019: Paper titled "On the role of spatial resolution on snow estimates using a process-based snow model across a range of climatology and elevation" published in HP.
- Jan., 2019: Paper titled "The role of cross-correlation between precipitation and temperature in basin-scale simulations of hydrologic variables" published in JoH.
- Jan., 2019: Paper titled "Mortality risk from heat stress expected to hit poorest nations the hardest" published in CC.
- Oct., 2018: Kumar is awarded "Mahatma Gandhi Samman" in House of Commons, London.
- Oct., 2018: Chris's paper on "Identifying Wetland Consolidation Using Remote Sensing in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region" published in WRR. Congrats Chris!
- Sep., 2018: Junehyeong Park joins hydrology research group. Welcome June!
- Aug., 2018: Paper on "Role of Temporal Resolution of Meteorological Inputs for Process-Based Snow Modeling" published in HP.
- Aug., 2018: USDA SRS Science Communications chronicles the significance of our work on potential impacts of climate change on groundwater dynamics in wetlands.
- Jul., 2018: Paper on "Conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater resources under drought conditions using a fully coupled hydrological model" published in JWRPM.
- Jul., 2018: Paper on "Assessing the restoration time of surface water and groundwater systems under groundwater pumping" published in SERRA.
- Mar. 2018: Dongdong's paper on "Using nested discretization for a detailed yet computationally efficient simulation of local hydrology in a distributed hydrologic model" accepted in Nature-Scientific Reports. Congratulations Dongdong and Yanlan!
- Mar. 2018: Kumar gives a talk on "Disturbance in CZOs" in X-CZO seminar series.
- Dec. 2017: Chris Krapu, Tan Zi, Yanlan Liu, and Yifan Zhou present their research at AGU Fall Meeting.
- Nov. 2017: Paper entitled "Modeling the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Hydrology of Selected Forested Wetlands in the Southeastern United States" accepted in HESS.
- Oct. 2017: Kumar gives a talk on "Modeling and Observations in CZOs: A Yin-Yang story" in IML CZO seminar series.
- Oct. 2017: Meijing's paper on "Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, a Necessary Evil to Ensure Water Supply?" accepted in Hydrological Processes. Congratulations Meijing!
- Oct. 2017: NVIDIA GPU grant awarded for "Characterizing the trajectories of prairie potholes in the American Midcontinent".
- Sep. 2017: Science news websites ArsTechnica and ZmeScience discuss the significance of our PNAS paper.
- Sep. 2017: Yanlan's paper on "Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentration alleviate forest mortality risk" published in PNAS. Congratulations Yanlan!
- May 2017: Chris Krapu gets NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship. Congratulations Chris!
- Apr. 2017: Chris Krapu awarded Wetland Center's Graduate Research Grant. Congratulations Chris!
- Apr. 2017: Yifan Zhou awarded Environment Innovation Fund Research Grant. Congratulations Yifan!
- Feb. 2017: Yanlan Liu wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU, 2016. Congratulations Yanlan!
- Dec. 2016: Chris Krapu, Xing Chen, Yanlan Liu and Yifan Zhou present their work at AGU Fall meeting.
- Sep. 2016: Paper on "Expanding the Role of Reactive Transport Models in Critical Zone Processes" accepted in Earth-Science Reviews.
- Jun. 2016: Yanlan's paper on "Role of meteorological controls on interannual variations in wet-period characteristics of wetlands" accepted in Water Resources Research.
- Jun. 2016: Kumar organizes PIHM modeling workshop for researchers from Texas A&M-Kingsville.
- Jun. 2016: Tan's paper on "Simulating the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil erosion, deposition, and yield using a coupled sediment dynamics and 3D distributed hydrologic model" accepted in Environmental Modeling and Software.
- May 2016: Xing's paper on "Assessment of the timing of daily peak streamflow during the melt season in a snow-dominated watershed" accepted in Journal of Hydrometeorology.
- May 2016: Rui's paper on "Potential trends in snowmelt generated peak streamflows in a warming climate" accepted in Geophysical Research Letters.
- Apr. 2016: Education outreach program focused on "Water quantity and quality issues of North Carolina" conducted at Randleman High School, NC.
- Mar. 2016: Yifan Zhou, Kumar and Tim Link participate in a field campaign in University of Idaho Experimental forests.
- Feb. 2016: Science Spotlight webinars to help execute a discussion-based class exercise focused on "Water Resource Issues of North Carolina" launched as part of NSF CAREER project and North Carolina Science Festival.
- Dec. 2015: Kumar, Xing Chen, Yanlan Liu and Chris Krapu present their work at AGU Fall meeting.
- Nov. 2015: Kumar organizes PIHM modeling workshop for researchers from Texas A&M.
- Sep. to Nov. 2015: Kumar gives invited talks at Iowa Flood Center, UIUC, Univ. of Arizona, Georgia Tech. and Univ. of Texas on "Physical process characterization in support of hydrologic prediction and mitigation".
- Aug. 2015: Paper on "Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models" is accepted in Water Resources Research.
- July 2015: Kumar's NSF CAREER research is spolighted by NSF Discoveries. Visit NSF Discovery for more information.
- May 2015: Project on "Accelerating Critical Zone Science with a Drilling Program at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory & Duke Forest" is funded by NSOE seed grant.
- Apr. 2015: Paper on "Exploring the Role of Domain Partitioning on Efficiency of Parallel Distributed Hydrologic Model Simulations" is published in JHHE.
- Mar. 2015: Kumar gets NSF CAREER grant on "Refining forest management strategies to maximize hydrologic gains from snow dominated watersheds". Visit NSOE news and NSF for more information.
- Dec. 2014: Xing Chen presents her work on "Understanding the Role of Controls on the Timing of Daily Streamflow Peak and its Seasonal Variation" at AGU 2014.
- Dec. 2014: Kumar gives invited talk on "Understanding the Variations in Flood Responses to Tropical-Storms and Hurricanes" at AGU 2014.
- Dec. 2014: Kumar organizes a one day workshop on PIHM modeling for researchers from University of South Carolina.
- Oct. 2014: Lake-catchment modeling workshop on multiscale modeling using PIHM to be conducted in Quebec, Canada. Visit website to register.
- Sep. 2014: Paper on "A tightly coupled GIS and distributed hydrologic modeling framework" is published in Environment Modeling and Software.
- Sep. 2014: Bijan Seyednasrollah's paper on "Net radiation in a snow-covered discontinuous forest gap for a range of gap sizes and topographic configurations" is accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
- Aug. 2014: Yanlan Liu and Chris Krapu joins hydrology research group. Welcome Yanlan and Chris!
- Aug. 2014: Xing Chen's paper on "Variations in streamflow response to large hurricane-season storms in a southeastern US watershed" is accepted in Journal of Hydrometeorology.
- Jul. 2014: Kumar to chair session on "Identifying data and model inadequacies in characterization of seasonal snowpack, and the consequent hydrologic response" at AGU 2014 with Martyn Clark and Danny Marks. Please submit good papers.
- Jun. 2014: Kumar to chair session on "Modeling and analytics for hydrologic impact assessments due to climate change" at CMWR 2014 with Auroop Ganguly.
- Jun. 2014: Project on "Amarakaeri Health & Hydrology Impact Assessment" in Peru is funded. Visit Duke Today for more information.
- Mar. 2014: Bijan, Kumar and Tim Link participate in a field campaign (in Troy, ID) to understand the influence of slopes and aspects on radiation on the forest floor.
- Feb. 2014: Paper titled "Surface-subsurface model intercomparison: A first set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks" accepted in Water Resources Research.
- Jan. 2014: Bijan Seyednasrollah receives CUAHSI's 2013 Pathfinder Fellowship to study "Radiation regimes in snow covered forests in Idaho". Congrats Bijan!
- Dec. 2013: Kathleen Hoenke's paper on "A GIS Based Approach for Prioritizing Dams for Potential Removal" accepted in Ecological Engineering.
- Dec. 2013: Xing Chen presents her research on "Identifying process controls on the timing of daily streamflow peak from snow dominated watersheds" at AGU, 2013.
- Dec. 2013: Bijan Seyednasrollah presents his work on "Using Forest Radiation Model (FoRM) to Quantify the Role of Canopy Coverage on Net Snow Cover Radiation" at AGU, 2013.
- Dec. 2013: Kumar presents two invited talks in AGU 2013: "In search of radiation minima for balancing the needs of forest and water management in snow dominated watersheds" and "Evaluating the distributed hydrologic impacts of snow model configurations in a mountainous watershed".
- Oct. 2013: Bijan Seyednasrollah's paper on "Effects of Tree Morphometry on Net Snowcover Radiation on Forest Floor for Varying Vegetation Densities" accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
- Jul. 2013: Bijan Seyednasrollah's paper on "On the role of vegetation density on net snow cover radiation at the forest floor" accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
- Jul. 2013: NSF-CZO proposal titled " Human and Natural Forcings of Critical Zone Dynamics and Evolution at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory: An observatory that integrates the sciences of water, mineral, and organic matter cycles of CZ degradation and recovery" is accepted.
- Jul. 2013: Bijan Seyednasrollah presents his work on " Understanding the Role of Canopy Coverage and Tree Morphometry on Net Snow Cover Radiation Using Forest Radiation Model (FoRM)" at CUAHSI-HydroInformatics and Modeling Conference, 2013.
- Jul. 2013: Kumar gives an invited talk titled "Comparing a distributed temperature-index and energy-based model in mountainous watershed" at DACA, 2013.
- Jul. 2013: Kumar convenes a session on "Changing snow and ice hydrology in mountain watersheds" at DACA, 2013.
- Jun. 2013: Kumar participates in Integrated Hydrologic Model Intercomparison Workshop at University of Bonn.
- Mar. 2013: Paper on "Evaluation of distributed hydrologic impacts of temperature-index and energy-based snow model simulations" accepted in Advances in Water Resorces.
- Mar. 2013: Rui Wang's paper on "Anomalous trend in soil evaporation in semi-arid, snow-dominated watersheds" accepted in Advances in Water Resorces.
- Mar. 2013: Tirtha Banerjee's paper on "Mean flow near edges and within cavities situtated inside dense canopies" accepted in Boundary Layer Meteorology.
- Dec. 2012: Paper on "An Evaluation of Methods for Determining During-Storm Precipitation Phase and the Rain/Snow Transition Elevation at the Surface in a Mountain Basin" accepted in Advances in Water Resorces.
- Dec. 2012: Bijan Seyednasrollah presents his work on "Looking for Radiation Optimality on Snow Covered Forest Floor" at AGU, 2012.
- Nov. 2012: Rui Wang's paper on "Effects of more extreme precipitation regimes on maximum seasonal snow water equivalent" published in Geophysical Research Letters.
- Nov. 2012: Kumar organizes a one day workshop on PIHM modeling for researchers from NCSU.
- Sep. 2012: Kumar gives an invited talk titled "Models for Prediction, Analyses, Discovery and Identification of Hydrologic Process Behaviors" in Dept. of Civil Engineering at NCSU.
- Aug. 2012: Xing Chen joins hydrology research group.
- Jul. 2012: SOILTREC training event on multiscale modeling using PIHM.
- Jun. 2012: Kumar convenes a session on "Modeling and Analytics for Hydrologic Impact Assessments due to Climate Change" at CMWR, 2012.
- May 2012: Proposal to Nicholas Institute titled "A Virtual Watershed for Exploring the Effects of Climate and Land Use/Land Cover on Distribution of Water Quantity and Sediments in Lake Michie Watershed" is accepted.
- Dec. 2011: Rui Wang presents her work on "Exploring the impacts of extreme precipitation regimes on April 1 SWE in snow dominated areas" at AGU, 2011.
- Dec. 2011: Kumar presents his work on "An Evolving Paradigm for Modeling Hydrologic Process Feedbacks at Multiple Scales" at AGU, 2010
- Sep. 2011: Bijan Seyednasrollah joins hydrology research group.
- Jul. 2011: Paper on "A long-term data set for hydrologic modeling in a snow-dominated mountain catchment" is published in Water Resources Research.
- Mar. 2011: Kumar participates in Integrated Hydrologic Model Intercomparison Workshop at Colorado School of Mines
- Oct. 2010: Rui Wang joins hydrology research group.
- Aug. 2010: Kumar leads the CZO workshop on multiscale modeling using PIHM.