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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.

President: John Selker

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

President-Elect: Venkataraman Lakshmi

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

Past-President: Ana Barros

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

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Department of Geology
Urbana, IL 61801
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Editor in Chief for Water Resources Research: Georgia Destouni

Stockholm University
Physical Geography
Stockholm, Sweden SE-106 91
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Section Liason: Theresa Blume

GFZ- German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section of Hydrology
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam, Germany
 Email | Phone: +49 331 288-1512

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 
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Web Editor: Sophie Liu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Urbana, IL 61801
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Catchment Hydrology (formerly Surface Water)

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

Committee Members

• Adam Price,  Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center/UW
• Alexis Sitchler, Colorado School of Mines
• Alicia Kinoshista, San Diego State University
• Aliva Nanda, Sierra Nevada Research Institute/UC Merced
• Amanda Donaldson, UCSC
• Anna Bergstrom, Boise State University
• Antonio Meria, University of Arizona
• Catalina Segura, Oregon State University
• Charlie Luce, USDA
• Christa Kelleher, Lafayette College
• Christine Hatch, University of Massachusetts
• Hilary McMillan, San Diego State University
• Holly Barnard, University of Colorado Boulder
• Ilja van Meerveld, University of Zürich
• Jamine Shanley, USGS
• Jerom Aerts, TU Delft
• JP Gannon, Western Carolina University
• Kelly Kibler, University of Central Florida
• Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech
• Kevin Bladon, Oregon State University
  
• Margaret Zimmer, University of California Santa Cruz
• Nicholas Zegre (Past Chair), West Virginia Universit
• Nitin Singh, University of Waterloo
• Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas Austin
• Remko Uijlenhoet, TU Delft
• Sarah Godsey, Idaho State University
• Sidney Bush (Student Member),  University of Colorado Boulder
• Sophan Patil, Bangor University
• Stephen Sebestyen, USDA
• Theresa Blume, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• Thom Bogaard, TU Delft

Remote Sensing

Manuela Girotto (Chair), University of California at Berkeley
Hatim Geli (Deputy Chair), New Mexico State University
Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University

Committee Members

• Aakash Ahamed (Student Member), Stanford
• Alexandra Konings, Stanford University
• Andrew Feldman (Student Member), MIT
• Bart Forman (Past Chair, 2019-2021), University of Maryland
• Cedric David, NASA JPL
• Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Ethan Shavers, US Geological Survey
• Hamed Alemohammad, Columbia University
• Iliana Mladenova, USDA
• Jeff Deems, NSIDC
• Kaighin McColl, Harvard University
• Marouane Temimi, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Vinit Sehgal (Student Member), Texas A&M

Water & Society

Megan Konar (Chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Marc Müller (Deputy Chair), University of Notre Dame

Committee Members

• Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut
• Erfan Goharian, University of South Carolina
• Jim Hall, University of Oxford
• Joseph R. Kasprzyk (Past Chair), University of Colorado Boulder
• Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia
• Julie Vano, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• Kathrine Schlef, Western New England University
• Landon Marston, Kansas State University
• Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water
• Patrick Ray, University of Cincinnati
• Patrick Reed, Cornell University
• Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute
• Sarah Freeman (Student), University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Scott Steinschneider, Cornell University
• Steve Gorelick, Stanford University
• Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories
• Winston Yu, World Bank
• Y. C. Ethan Yang, Lehigh University

Standing Committees

Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee

(formerly the Horton Award)

• Bayani Cardenas (Chair, 2024), UTexas
• Guilin Wang (2023), UConnecticut
• James Famiglietti (2024), Global Institute for Water Security
• James Smith (2023), Princeton University
• Yan Zheng (2024), SUSTech

Horton Research Grant Committee

(for Ph.D. Students)

• Marc Schleiss (Chair, 2023), TU Delft
• Antonia Sebastian (2023), UNC
• Jing Tao (2023), LBL
• Ryan Webb (2024), University of Wyoming
  
• Sara Nowreen (2024), BUET

Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture Committee 

• Patrick Reed (Chair, 2024), Cornell University
• Jenni Adam (2023), Washington State
• Ilja van Meerveld (2025),University of Zurich
• Veronica Morales (2024), UC Davis
• Wendy Graham (2023), University of Florida

Nominations Canvassing Committee

• Scott Tyler (Chair), University of Nevada Reno
• Amir Aghakouchak, University of California Irvine
• Carl Steefel, LBNL
• Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University
• Isabel Pedroso de Lima, University of Coimbra
• Manos(Emmanouil) Anagnostou, UConn
• Martyn Clark, University of Saskatchewan
• Ximing Cai, University of Illinois
• Yin-Fang, Reinfelder, Rutgers University

Fall Meeting Program Committee

• Viviana Maggioni (Chair, 2023-2024), George Mason University
• Hamid Moradkhani (2020-2023), University of Alabama
• Hang Deng (2019-2022), Berkeley National Lab 
• Bo Guo (2022-2027), University of Arizona
• Binayak Mohanty (2022-2027), Texas A&M University
• Firat Testik (2022-2027), University of Texas at San Antonio
• Manuela Girotto (2022-2027), UC Berkeley
  
• Shirley (Kurc) Papuga (2021-2024), Wayne State University

Hydrology Section Student Committee

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

Committee Members

• Abigail McCarthy (2021-2022), Syracuse University
• Achla Jha (2022-2023), Texas A&M University
• Christian Roumelis (2022-2023), The Ohio State University
• Chung-Yi Lin (2022-2023), Lehigh University
• Cyndi Castro (2022-2023), University of Houston
• Dan Myers (Past Chair, 2022-2023), Indiana University Bloomington
• Deon Knights (2021-2022), Vassar College
• Devin Smith (2022-2023), The Ohio State University
• Devon Kerins (2022-2023), The Pennsylvania State University
• Dylan Blaskey (2021-2022), University of Colorado Boulder
• Elizabeth Andrews (2022-2023), University of Texas at El Paso
• Eric Shearer (2021-2022), University of California, Irvine
• Farzad Vahidi Mayamey, Stockholm University
• Jeremy R. Patterson (2022-2023), University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Kalani Heinz (2022-2023), UCLA
• Katarena Matos (2021-2022), University of Colorado Boulder
• Kyle Compare (2021-2022), Florida State University
• Lauren Grimley (2021-2022), UNC
• Lawrence Vulis (2022-2023), University of California Irvine
• Lorrayne Miralha (2021-2022), Oregon State University
• Matthew Preisser (2022-2023), University of Texas at Austin
• Shruti Ashok Upadhyaya (2022-2023), University of Oklahoma
• Shushobhit Chaudhary (2021-2022), Indian Institue of Technology Delhi
• Shuyu Chang (2022-2023), Penn State University
• Sidian Chen (2022-2023), University of Arizona
• Soelem Aafnan Bhuiyan (2022-2023), George Mason University
• Soumaya Nabih (2022-2023), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
• Srinidhi Jha (2021-2022), Indian Institue of Technology
• Zoe Kanavas (2021-2022), University of California, Davis

Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award Committee

• Stephanie Kampf (Chair, 2021-2023), CSU
• Auroop Ganguly (2021-2023), Northeastern University
• Jessica Lunquist (2023-2024), University of Washington
• Rolf Hut, TU Delft
• Todd Scanlon (2022-2024), University of Virginia

Hydrology Fellows Committee

• Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi (2024), University of Virginia
• Barbara Bekins (2024), USGS
• Chunmiao Zheng (2024), SUSTech
• Qinyun Duan (2024), Hohai University
• Remko Uijlenhoet (2024), TU Delft
• Upmanu Lal (2023), Columbia University

Walter Langbein Lecture Committee

• Enrique Vivoni (2023), ASU 
• Efi Foufoula (2023), UCI
• Huilin Gao (2024), Texas A&M University
• Kamini Singha (2024), Colorado School of Mines
• Marcelo Garcia (2024), UIUC

Outstanding Student Presentation Award Committee

• Shirley (Kurc) Papuga (Chair, 2021-2024), Wayne State University 
• Antônio Meira (2022-2023), The University of Arizona
• Christian Massari (2021-2022), Institute of Geo-Hydrological Protection
• Haw Yen (2022-2023), Bayer CropScience
• Jan-Olof Selroos (2022-2023), KTH
• Juliane Mai (2022-2023), University of Waterloo
• Lieke Melsen (2021-2022), Wageningen University
  
• Qian Zhang (2022-2023), USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program

Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting Committee

• Alex Mayer (Vice Chair), University of Texas El Paso
• Bart Nijssen (Co-Chair), University of Washington
• Bailey Anderson (Student), Oxford University
• Chinedum Eluwa (Student), University of Massachusetts
• Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi (Early Career), LBL
• Jeanne VanBriesen (Vice Chair), Carnegie Mellon University
• Jerad Bales (Co-Chair), CUASHI
• Sandra Guzman (Early Career), University of Florida

Hydrology Section Awards Task Force

• John Wilson (Co-Chair)
• Linda Abriola (Co-Chair)
• Bayani Cardenas
• Bridget Scanlon
• Jay Famigllieti
• Jessica Lundquist
• John Selker
• Praveen Kumar
• Randy Koster
• Terri Hogue