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Committees

AGU Hydrology Section Standing, Technical & Advisory Committees

The Hydrology section has a very active group of technical and standing committees, which is where much of the planning for section activities takes place. The wide range of activities offered by the section is due in large part to the work of the many dedicated committee chairs and members. Technical committees initiate most of the section’s special sessions at AGU meetings. For information on the work of a committee, how to make suggestions for special sessions, or how to join a committee, contact the committee chair.

Executive Committee

John Selker

President: John Selker

Oregon State University
Crop and Soil Science Department
Corvalis, OR 97331
Email | Phone: +1 541 737 6304

Venkataraman LakshmiPresident-Elect: Venkataraman Lakshmi

University of Virginia
Department of Engineering Systems and Environment
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Email | Phone: +1 434 982 2052

Ana Barros

Past-President: Ana Barros

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Urbana, IL 61801-2352
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Jennifer Druhan

Secretary: Jennifer Druhan

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Department of Geology
Urbana, IL 61801
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Georgia Destouni

Editor in Chief for Water Resources Research: Georgia Destouni

Stockholm University
Physical Geography

Stockholm, Sweden SE-106 91
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Theresa Blume

Section Liason: Theresa Blume

GFZ- German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section of Hydrology
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam, Germany

 Email | Phone: +49 331 288-1512

Jennifer Druhan

Student Representative: Lorrayne Miralha

Oregon State University
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management
Corvalis, OR 97331
Email | +1 541 8299020

Fall Meeting Program Chair: Viviana Maggioni

George Mason University
Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering
Fairfax, VA 22030 
Email

Web Editor: Sophie Liu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Urbana, IL 61801 
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Technical Committees

Catchment Hydrology (formerly Surface Water)

Genevieve Ali (Chair), University of Guelph
Matthias Sprenger (Deputy Chair), LBNL

Committee Members


Groundwater

Pania Newell (Chair), University of Utah
Bo Guo (Deputy Chair), University of Arizona

Committee Members

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Hydrologic Uncertainty

Lucy Marshall (Chair), University of New South Wales
Julie Mai (Deputy Chair), University of Waterloo

Committee Members

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Remote Sensing

Hatim Geli (Chair), New Mexico State University
Huilin Gao (Co-Chair), Texas A&M University

Andrew Feldman (Co-Chair), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Committee Members


    Soil Systems & Critical Zone Processes

    Jingyi Huang (Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Rose Abramoff (Deputy Chair), LSCE 
    Kathe Todd-Brown (Outgoing Chair), University of Florida

    Committee Members

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    Water Quality

    Heather Golden (Co-Chair), US Environmental Protection Agency
    Omar Abdul Aziz (Co-Chair), West Virginia University
    Emine Fidan (Deputy Co-Chair), University of Tennessee
    Frederick Cheng (Deputy Co-Chair), University of Virginia


    Committee Members 


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    Ecohydrology

    Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi (Chair), UC Berkeley
    Sam Zipper (Deputy Chair), University of Kansas

    Committee Members

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    Hydrogeophysics

    Qifei Niu (Chair), Boise State University


    Committee Members

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    Precipitation

    Lisa Milani (Chair), University of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Yagmur Derin (Deputy Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Committee Members 

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    Unsaturated Zone

    Veronica Morales (Chair), University of California – Davis
    Lazaro Perez (Deputy Chair)

    Committee Members

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      Water & Society

      Marc Muller (Chair), Eawag
      Christine Kirchhoff (Deputy Chair), Penn State

      Committee Members

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        Standing Committees

        Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee

        (formerly the Horton Award)


        Horton Research Grant Committee

        (for Ph.D. Students)


        Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture Committee 


        Nominations Canvassing Committee


        Fall Meeting Program Committee


          Ad-hoc Student Travel Grant Committee

          Hydrology Section Student Committee

          Danyka Byrnes (Chair, 2023), University of Waterloo 
          Paige Becker (Deputy Chair, 2023), Indiana University Bloomington

          Committee Members


          Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award Committee


          Hydrology Fellows Committee


          Walter Langbein Lecture Committee


          Outstanding Student Presentation Award Committee


          Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting Committee


          Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity (JEDI)

          Briana Wyatt (Chair), Texas A&M University
          Committee Members

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