Research

Hydrology

                Soil moisture, remote sensing, groundwater hydrology, downscaling of soil moisture and precipitation, evapotranspiration

Ecohydrology

                Hurricane impacts on tree mortalities, plant-water interactions, deforestation, agroecosystems

Critical Zone Science

                Carbon cycling, landslide, nitrogen and phosphorus recycling 

Geomorphology

                Landscape evolution, landslides, geomorphological modeling

Hydrometeorology

                Precipitation data assimilation, remote sensing of precipitation, remote sensing of soil moisture

Data analytics

                Machine learning, integrated physical and deep learning models in hydrology

Current Research Projects:

 – Detecting Shallow Groundwater and Irrigation Signals from SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals – Funded by NASA

 – Using Satellite-based Precipitation Estimates to Obtain the Conditional Probability Distribution of Soil Moisture – Funded by NASA