DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION IN Urban HYDROLOGY group

Welcome

The combined impacts of ongoing urbanization, deteriorating water infrastructure, and climate change result in more frequent, damaging, and costly floods and degraded water quality, increasing the need for a new paradigm for urban water management. However, despite the large investment in urban drainage systems (UDS) and watershed management practices (WMP), there remain large uncertainties in the role of UDS/WMP on urban water balances and non-point source pollution (NPS) control. This largely owes to the deficiency in monitoring and modeling the hydrologic impact of UDS/WMP and the lack of understanding of the interaction between the hydro-environmental system and decision-making.

The Data-Model Integration in Urban Hydrology Group (UMD-Hydro) resolves around offering a data-model integrated approach to evaluate the impact of urbanization, climate change, and UDS/WMP on urban watershed hydrology and water quality, develop efficient sampling strategies, and optimize watershed management actions for hydrology restoration and water quality improvement.

We are always seeking highly self-motivated graduate (PhD and MS) and undergraduate students to join our group. See more about who we are, our current and past research projects, recent publications, and info about joining the lab.