# overview
My research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on groundwater sustainability, examining multiple aspects of the connections between the atmosphere, vegetation, soil, and groundwater. My current work has three main focus areas: 1) determining vegetation water requirements in groundwater dependent ecosystems, as needed to predict plant response to groundwater extraction; 2) improving the representation of hydrological and biogeochemical processes in Earth system models, which are vital to accurately predicting changes to climate and the hydrologic cycle; and 3) examining subsurface processes associated with engineered systems, such as in Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) projects and bioretention cells.

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Long-term Agroecosystem Research (ltar) Network

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Missouri University of Science and Technology - (Rolla, Missouri, United States)

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Missouri University of Science and Technology - (Rolla, Missouri, United States)

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University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States)

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Dick & Joyce Birdwell Endowed Teaching Award

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar

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Truman R. Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award

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Simulating groundwater uptake and hydraulic redistribution by phreatophytes in a high-resolution, coupled subsurface-land surface model

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Understanding and measuring plant water use

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Modeling of a Groundwater Circulation Well Removal Action Alternative

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Attitudes of Incoming Civil Engineering Students toward Sustainability as an Engineering Ethic

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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The Importance of Bank Storage in Supplying Baseflow to Rivers Flowing Through Compartmentalized, Alluvial Aquifers

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The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Nino

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Modeling vadose zone processes during land application of food-processing waste water in California's Central Valley.

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Upscaling transpiration in diverse forests: Insights from a tropical premontane site

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Characterizing ecohydrological and biogeochemical connectivity across multiple scales: a new conceptual framework

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Measurement of above-canopy meteorological profiles using unmanned aerial systems

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Effect of multilayered groundwater mounds on water dynamics beneath a recharge basin: Numerical simulation and assessment of surface injection

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ACCOUNTING FOR THE HUMAN IMPACTS OF OVER-EXPLOITING AQUIFERS WITH DETERIORATING WATER QUALITY IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS

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Comparison of tree transpiration under wet and dry canopy conditions in a Costa Rican premontane tropical forest

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Tree–Grass Interactions in Savannas: Paradigms, Contradictions, and Conceptual Models

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Topographic and Landcover Influence on Lower Atmospheric Profiles Measured by Small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (sUAS)

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Texas A&M Soltis Center Forest Canopy Data, 2014

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Using Envision to Assess the Sustainability of Groundwater Infrastructure: A Case Study of the Twin Oaks Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Modeling land surface processes over a mountainous rainforest in Costa Rica using CLM4.5 and CLM5

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MASS FLUXES OF NITROGEN AND CARBON FROM SOIL WATER TO A FIRST-ORDER MOUNTAIN STREAM IN A PRISTINE COSTA RICAN RAIN FOREST IN RESPONSE TO INDIVIDUAL RAIN EVENTS

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Modeling land surface processes over a mountainous rainforest in Costa Rica using CLM4.5 and CLM5

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Using UAV Technology to Collect Vertical Temperature and Relative Humidity Profiles over a Tropical Montane Rainforest

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Leaf surface traits and water storage retention affect photosynthetic responses to leaf surface wetness among wet tropical forest and semiarid savanna plants.

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Assessing Forest Level Response to the Death of a Dominant Tree within a Premontane Tropical Rainforest

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Use of PhenoCam Measurements and Image Analysis to Inform the ALMANAC Process-based Simulation Model

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An analysis of soil moisture dynamics using multi-year data from a network of micrometeorological observation sites

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Testing alternative conceptual models of river-aquifer connectivity and their impacts on baseflow and river recharge processes

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A groundwater-soil-plant-atmosphere continuum approach for modelling water stress, uptake, and hydraulic redistribution in phreatophytic vegetation

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Texas A&M Soltis Center Forest Canopy Data, 2015

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A statistical method for estimating wood thermal diffusivity and probe geometry using in situ heat response curves from sap flow measurements.

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A Systems Approach to Remediating Human Exposure to Arsenic and Fluoride From Overexploited Aquifers.

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MODELING GROUNDWATER USE BY PHREATOPHYTES: FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX APPROACHES

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Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach

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Assessing aquifer storage and recovery feasibility in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas

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Optimizing Multiwell Aquifer Storage and Recovery Systems for Energy Use and Recovery Efficiency.

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QUANTIFYING WATER EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE BRAZOS RIVER AND THE BRAZOS RIVER ALLUVIAL AQUIFER USING HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS

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Groundwater uptake by woody vegetation in a semiarid oak savanna

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Modeling Profiles of Micrometeorological Variables in a Tropical Premontane Rainforest Using Multi-Layered CLM (CLM-ML)

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Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics.

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Texas A&M Soltis Center Forest Canopy Data, 2016

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The pan-tropical response of soil moisture to El Nio

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Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework

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Texas A&M Soltis Center Forest Canopy Data, 2017

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CAREER: Science for Sustainable and Resilient Groundwater Management

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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NRI: INT: COLLAB: Leveraging Environmental Monitoring UAS in Rainforests

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Improving Land-Surface Modeling of Evapotranspiration Processes in Tropical Forests

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Civil and Environmental Engineering; 3136 TAMU

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Smith, Wade Benjamin (2018-05). Improving Adoption of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Mehmood, Tayyab (2018-08). Numerical Modeling of Water Flux Interaction Between Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer and Brazos River: Testing of Alternative Conceptual Models. Master's Thesis.

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Andrews, Ryan S (2016-05). The Temporal Variation of Vertical Micrometeorological Profiles in a Lower Montane Tropical Forest. Master's Thesis.

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Sanders, Jonathan Edward (2015-08). Fate and Transport of Polymeric Nanoparticles in Saturated Porous Media. Master's Thesis.

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Merket, Courtney Brooke (2017-08). Earth Systems Modeling in the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer: Improvement of Computational Methods and Development of Conceptual Model. Master's Thesis.

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DuMont, Andrea Lyn (2014-04). Hillslope Hydrological Processes in a Costa Rican Rainforest: Water Supply Partitioning Using Isotope Tracers. Master's Thesis.

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Varela Gonzalez, Patricia Ysolda (2013-04). Bayesian Networks and Geographical Information Systems for Environmental Risk Assessment for Oil and Gas Site Development. Master's Thesis.

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Gou, Si (2014-05). Study of Multi-Scale Plant-Groundwater Interactions. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Zhang, Jingqiu (2014-04). Reactive Transport Modeling of Natural Attenuation in Stormwater Bioretention Cells and Under Land Application of Wastewater. Master's Thesis.

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Tao, Liting (2018-07). Feasibility Study and Numerical Modeling on Managed Aquifer Recharge Using Dry Wells in Harris County, Texas. Master's Thesis.