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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

Scott Tyler (President)
University of Nevada, Reno

Ana Barros (President-elect)
Duke University

Charles Luce (Secretary)
US Forest Service, Boise

Jeffrey McDonnell (Past President)
University of Saskatchewan

Precipitation

Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter (Chair, 2017-2019)
University of Oklahoma – Advanced Radar Research Center / NOAA

Viviana Maggioni (Deputy Chair, 2017-2019)
George Mason University

Committee Members (* denotes second term):

• Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens
• Marc Berenguer*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Spain
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Ardeshir Ebtehaj*, University of Minnesota
• Isabel de Lima*, University of Coimbra, Portgual
• Kenji Tanaka*, Kyoto University
• Joe Turk*, JPL-Caltech
• Yu Zhang, University of Texas, Arlington
• Yagmur Derin* (Student Member), University of Connecticut
• Sungmin O (Student Member), Max Planck Institute, Germany
• Veljko Petkovic, Colorado State University
• Diego Cerrai (Student Member), University of Connecticut
• Giuseppe Mascaro, Arizona State University
• Hisham Eldardiry (Student Member), University of Washington
• Joe Munchak, NASA/GSFC
• Rick Schulte (Student Member), Colorado State University
• Yoonjin Lee(Student Member), Colorado State University
• Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• J. Indu, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Christian Massari, National Research Council, Italy
• Sarah Bang, NASA/MSFC

Water & Society

Y.C. Ethan Yang, (Chair, 2017-2019)
Lehigh University

Joseph R. Kasprzyk (Deputy Chair, 2017-2019)
University of Colorado Boulder

Kaveh Madani (Past Chair, 2016-2017)
Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Gregory W. Characklis (Ex-Officio)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Committee Members

• Elizabeth Boyer, Penn State University
• Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut
• Patrick M. Reed, Cornell University
• Winston Yu, World Bank
• Steve Gorelick, Stanford University
• Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water
• Sarah Freeman (Student Member), University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Unsaturated Zone

Yusong Li (Chair 2019-2020)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez (Deputy Chair, 2019-2020)
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Teamrat A. Ghezzehei (Past Chair 2017-2018)
University of California, Merced

Committee Members

• Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, University of California, Merced
• Thomas Phelan, U.S. Air Force Academy
• Raghavendra (Raghu) Jana, Skoltech, Russia
• Manoj Shukla, New Mexico State University
• Thomas Harter, University of California – Davis
• Joshua Larsen, University of Queensland, Australia
• Kathleen M. Smits, University of Texas, Arlington
• Clare Robinson, University of Western Ontario
• Wei Zhang, Michigan State University
• Chadi Sayde, Oregon State University
• Ryan Steward, Virginia Tech
• Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Lab
• Veronica Morales, University of California – Davis
• Jason Gurdak, San Francisco State University
• Ian Molnar, University of Edinburgh
• Shahab Karimifard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

Water Quality

Matt Cohen (Chair, 2019-2020)
University of Florida

Nandita Basu (Past-Chair, 2016-2017)
University of Waterloo

Committee Members (* denotes returning member):

• Omar Abdul Aziz, West Virginia University
• Tim Covino, Colorado State University
• Matt Cohen*, University of Florida
• Heather Golden*, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Hjalmar Laudon, SLU (Sweden)
• Genevieve Ali, University of Manitoba
• Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Erich Hester, Virginia Tech
• Rachel Gabor, Ohio State University
• Bonnie McGill (Postdoc), Kansas University
• Catherine Kuhn(Student Member), University of Washington
• Frederick Cheng (Student Member), University of Waterloo
• Nate Jones (Postdoc), Virginia Tech

Large-scale Field Experimentation

Chad Higgins (Chair, 2019-2020)
Oregon State University

Brian Baily (Deputy Chair, 2019-2020)
Univ. of California, Davis

Joe Alfieri (Past Chair, 2017-2018)
USDA-ARS

Committee Members

• Nate Brunsell University of Kansas
• Alisa Coffin, USDA-ARS
• Andreas Colliander, NASA-JPL
• Michael Cosh, USDA-ARS
• Witek Krajewski, University of Iowa
• Sebastian Los, Utah State University (Student Member)
• Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State

Catchment Hydrology (formerly Surface Water)

Nicholas Zegre (Chair, 2019-)
West Virginia University

Theresa Blume (Past Chair, 2017-2018)
GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Germany

Committee Members

• Dan Moore, University of British Columbia
• George Allen, Texas A&M
• Genevieve Ali, University of Manitoba
• Holly Barnard, University of Colorado Boulder
• Kevin Bladon, Oregon State University
• Thom Bogaard,  TU Delft
• Sidney Bush (student representative),  University of Colorado Boulder
• Anna Coles, University of Saskatchewan
• JP Gannon, Western Carolina University
• Sarah Godsey, Idaho State University
• Christine Hatch, University of Massachusetts
• Markus Hrachowitz, TU Delft
• Christa Kelleher, Syracuse University
• Kelly Kibler, University of Central Florida
• Alicia Kinoshista, San Diego State University
• Charlie Luce, Forest Service
• Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech
• Hilary McMillan, San Diego State University
• Ilja van Meerveld, University of Zürich
• Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas Austin
• Catalina Segura, Oregon State University
• Matthias Sprenger, University of Freiburg
• Remko Uijlenhoet, LIST
• Margaret Zimmer, University of California

Remote Sensing

Mike Durand (Chair, 2018-2019)
Ohio State University

Bart Forman (Deputy Chair, 2018-2019)
University of Maryland

Iva Mladenova (Deputy Chair, 2018-2019)
NASA/GSFC

Committee Members

• Cedric David, NASA JPL
• Sara Sadri, University of California, Los Angeles
• Alexandra Konings,Stanford University
• Kaighin McColl, Harvard University
• Hatim Geli, New Mexico State University
• Hamed Alemohammad, Columbia University
• Dongryeol Ryu, University of Melbourne
• Jeff Deems, NSIDC
• Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University
• Andrew Feldman (Student Member), MIT
• Aakash Ahamed (Student Member), Stanford
• Vinit Sehgal (Student Member), Texas A&M

Standing Committees

(date indicates last year of term)

Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee

(formerly the Horton Award)

• Dara Entekhabi, MIT, 2019
• Bridget Scanlon, UT Austin, 2021
• Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University, 2019
• Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Berlin, 2020
• Jan Seibert, University of Zurich, 2020

Horton Research Grant Committee

(for Ph.D. Students)

• Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019 (Chair)
• Mark Hausner, Desert Research Institute, 2021
• Josie Geris, University of Aberdeen, 2020
• Markus Hrachowitz, TU Delft, 2020

Paul Witherspoon Mid-Career Lecturer in Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee 

• Alberto Guadagnini , Politecnico di Milano, 2019 (Chair)
• Ty Ferre, University of Arizona, 2021
• Auli Niemi, Uppsala University, 2021
• Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019
• Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2020

Ad Hoc Committee on Nominations

• Jeffery McDonnell, University of Saskatchewan, 2020 (Chair)
• Anthony Jakeman, Australian National University, 2021
• Susan Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2021
• Heidi Nepf, MIT, 2021
• Jerad Bales, CUAHSI, 2021
• Chris Soulsby, University of Aberdeen, 2020
• Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona, 2020

Fall Meeting Program Committee

• Laura Bowling, Purdue University, 2017-2020 (Chair)
• Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State University, 2018-2021
• Hang Deng, Berkeley National Lab, 2019-2022
• Megan Smith, Livermore National Lab, 2016-2019
• Charlie Luce, US Forest Service, Boise, 2016-2020 (Ex-Officio)

Ad-hoc Student Travel Grant Committee

• Charlie Luce, US Forest Service, Boise
• Alicia Kinoshita, San Diego State University
• Yusong Li, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Joshua Larsen, University of Queensland, Australia
• Bwalya Malama, California Polytechnic State University
• Jon Duncan, Penn State University
• Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Veljko Petkovic, Colorado State University
• Martin Briggs, USGS

Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee

• Brad Wilcox, Texas A and M, 2019 (Chair)
• Irena Creed, Western University, 2019
• Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria, 2019
• Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, 2020
• Fuqiang Tian, Tsinghua University, 2020

Fellows Committee

• Ana Barros, Duke University, 2019-2020 (Chair)
• Lee Slater, Rutgers University, 2019-2021
• Taiken Oki, University of Tokyo, 2019-2021
• Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna, 2018-2020
• Jean Bahr, University of Wisconsin, USA, 2018-2020

Langbein Lecture Award Committee

• James Kirchner, ETH Zurich, 2019 (Chair)
• Theresa Blume, GFZ Potsdam, 2019
• Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna, 2019
• Richard Vogel, Tufts University, 2021

Outstanding Student Presentation Award Committee

• Charlie Luce, US Forest Service, Boise, 2018-2020 (Chair)
• Anne Jefferson, Kent State University, 2019-2021
• Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire, 2017-2019
• Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, 2017-2019
• Di Long, Tsinghua University, 2019-2021

Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee

• Caitlyn Hall, Arizona State University, 2019