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
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