Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hydrology and Water Resources Systems

The Hydrology and Water Resources graduate program focuses on fundamentals and the use of mathematical, computational, and experimental approaches to understanding the dynamics of the hydrologic cycle, transport within aquatic systems, and the impact of human activity, particularly in urban areas. Specific areas include water resources planning, remote sensing of the environment, water related hazards such as floods and droughts, and transport in land, oceans, and the atmosphere.
Admission to the program is nationally and internationally competitive. Financial support through research or teaching assistantships and a variety of fellowships and scholarships is available to qualified students.
 

Hydrology and Water Resources Faculty
 

Amir AghaKouchak
UCI Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D. University of Stuttgart
Hydrology, climatology, remote sensing of environment, climate extremes, water-energy nexus, climate change, stochastic modeling, water resources management

Tirtha Banerjee
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Duke University
Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics, turbulent fluid dynamics, land/water/vegetation - atmosphere interaction, wildfires, vegetation dynamics, carbon and water cycles, hydrology, wetlands and terrestrial aquatic interfaces

Kristen Davis
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Coastal ocean circulation, cross-shelf exchange, benthic-pelagic coupling, stratified-shear flows, internal waves, boundary layers, and turbulent flows

Russell Detwiler
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado
Groundwater hydrology, contaminant transport, coupled processes in porous and fractured media

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. University of Florida
Hydrology and geomorphology with emphasis on modeling the interactions between the atmosphere, land, and the terrestrial environment at plot to large-watershed scale

Shakira Hobbs
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Clemson University
Global sustainability, resource recovery from anthropogenic waste, and life cycle thinking applied to engineering equity at the food-energy-water nexus

James Randerson
UCI Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Fires, greenhouse gases, land cover change, tropical deforestation, global change in arctic and boreal ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, remote sensing and climate policy

Kuo-lin Hsu
Professor
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Hydrologic modeling; artificial neural network applications in hydrology

Phu Nguyen
Associate Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
flood warnings, global extreme satellite precipitation event database using object-oriented approaches, integrated system for global satellite precipitation and information, and global real-time satellite and crowdsourced precipitation observations for hydrologic and natural disaster management applications

Christopher Olivares Martinez
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Environmental biotechnology, remediation, metabolomics, pollutant fate in natural and engineered systems, microbial toxicity, environmental organic chemistry

Brett Sanders
Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Computational hydrodynamics; modeling river, estuarine and coastal waters; coastal water quality, flood control

Jean-Daniel Saphores
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Cornell University
Environmental and natural resource economics

Soroosh Sorooshian
Distinguished Professor (CEE/Earth System Science)
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Hydrologic systems; rainfall-runoff modeling; remote sensing

Jasper Vrugt
Professor
Ph.D. University of Amsterdam
Environmental systems modeling

Plans of Study

More Information

Amir AghaKouchak, Ph.D. 
Professor & Graduate Advisor
amir.a@uci.edu 
(949) 824-9350 
 

Graduate Department

ceegraddept@uci.edu