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

Jeffrey McDonnell (President)
University of Saskatchewan

Scott Tyler (President-elect)
University of Nevada, Reno

Charles Luce (Secretary)
US Forest Service, Boise

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (Past President)
University of California, Irvine

Technical Committees

PRECIPITATION

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

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

Alexis Berne (Past Chair, 2015-2016)
EPFL-LTE

Committee Members (* denotes second term):

• Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens
• Marc Berenguer*, CRAHI, UPC Barcelona
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Mohammad Ebtehaj*, University of Minnesota
• Gail Jackson*, NASA/GSFC
• Isabel de Lima*, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
• Efrat Morin*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Kenji Tanaka*, Kyoto University
• Joe Turk*, NASA – JPL
• Yu Zhang, NOAA
• Yagmur Derin* (Student Member), University of Connecticut
• Sungmin O (Student Member), University of Graz, Austria
• Veljko Petkovic, Colorado State University
• Diego Cerrai (Student Member), University of Connecticut
• Giuseppe Mascaro, Arizona State University
• Hisham Eldardiry (Student Member), University of Washington
• Leonardo Porcacchia (Student Member), George Mason University
• Joe Munchak, NASA/GSFC
• Rick Schulte (Student Member), Colorado State University
• Yoonjin Lee (Student Member), Colorado State University

HYDROLOGIC UNCERTAINTY

Ming Ye (Chair, 2014-2018)
Florida State University

Saman Razavi (Deputy Chair, 2016-2019)
University of Saskatchewan

Mary Hill (Founding Chair, 2017-2020)
University of Kansas

Grey Nearing (Secretary, 2014-2018)
NASA

Committee Members

• Theodore Melis, U.S. Geological Survey
• Jasper A. Vrugt, University of California, Irvine
• Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University
• Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Uppsala University
• Tianfang (Tracy) Xu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Joseph Kasprzyk, University of Colorado
• Michael Fienen, U.S. Geological Survey
• Joseph Guillaume, Aalto University, Finland
• David Groves, RAND Water and Climate Resilience Center
• Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Allison Goodwell (Student Member), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

WATER AND SOCIETY

Y.C. Ethan Yang, (Chair, 2017-2018)
Lehigh University

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
• Brett Gracely, Colorado Springs Utilities
• Christine Kirchhoff, University of Connecticut
• Patrick M. Reed, Cornell University
• * Winston Yu, World Bank
• Asha Shar, Cornell University
• Steve Gorelick, Stanford University
• Julie Quinn (Student Member), Cornell University

WATER QUALITY

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

Matt Cohen (Chair-Elect, 2017-2018)
University of Florida

Michael Gooseff (Past Chair, 2015-2016)
Colorado State University

Committee Members (* denotes returning member):

• Omar Abdul Aziz, West Virginia University
• Tim Covino, Colorado State University
• Brian Pellerin, U.S. Geological Survey
• Matt Cohen*, University of Florida
• Heather Golden*, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Hjalmar Laudon, SLU (Sweden)
• Genevieve Ali, University of Manitoba
• Rachel Gabor, Ohio State University
• Heather Gall, Penn State University
• Nate Jones, Virginia Tech (Postdoc)
• Bonnie McGill (Student Member), Michigan State University
• Faye Jackson (Student Member), University of Birmingham
• Kathryn Wheeler (Student Member), University of Delaware

UNSATURATED ZONE

Teamrat A. Ghezzehei (Chair 2017-2019)
University of California, Merced

Yusong Li (Deputy Chair 2017-2019)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Kathleen M. Smits (Past Chair, 2014-2016)
Colorado School of Mines

Committee Members

• Thomas Phelan, U.S. Air Force Academy
• Raghavendra (Raghu) Jana, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Manoj Shukla, New Mexico State University
• Thomas Harter, University of California – Davis
• Joshua Larsen, University of Queensland, Australia
• Mark L. Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Clare Robinson, University of Western Ontario
• Wei Zhang, Michigan State University
• Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Chadi Sayde, Oregon State University
• Zhen Li (Student Member), Colorado School of Mines
• Dan Karup Jensen (Student Member), Aarhus University, Denmark

LARGE-SCALE FIELD EXPERIMENTATION

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

Nate Brunsell (Past Chair)
University of Kansas

Committee Members

• Ana Barros, Duke University
• Michael Cosh, USDA-ARS
• Chad Higgins, Oregon State University
• Noah Molotoch, University of Colorado
• Chelsea Peters, Vanderbilt University (Student Member)
• Enrique Vivoni, Arizona State University
• Brian Bailey, University of California, Davis
• Alisa Coffin, USDA-ARS
• Andreas Colliander, NASA-JPL
• Witek Krajewski, University of Iowa
• Sebastian Los, Utah State University (Student Member)

HYDROGEOPHYSICS

Sander Huisman (Chair, 2017-2018)
Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3

Kristina Keating (Deputy Chair, 2017-2018)
Rutgers University Newark

Committee Members

• Ty Ferre, University of Arizona
• Roelof Versteeg, Subsurface Insights
• Deqiang Mao, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Majken Looms, University of Copenhagen
• Chi Zhang, University of Kansas
• Yuxin Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Damien Jougnot, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
• Trenton Franz, University of Nebraska
• Anja Klotzsche, Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3
• Marty Briggs, U.S. Geological Survey
• Mine Dogan Diker, Clemson University
• Erasmus K. Oware, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• Michael Tso (Student Member), Lancaster University

Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee Home Page

GROUNDWATER

Holly Michael, (Chair, 2017-2018)
University of Delaware

Christine Hatch (Deputy Chair, pending vote)
U of Massachusetts-Amherst

Kenneth Carroll (Past Chair, 2015-2016)
New Mexico State University

Committee Members

• Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario
• Diogo Bolster, University of Notre Dame
• Adam S. Ward, Indiana University
• Deqiang Mao, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Jan Fleckenstein, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
• Kristopher Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratory
• Shujun Ye, Nanjing University
• Alexandre Tartakovsky, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois
• Tess Russo, Penn State University
• Trevor Osorno (Student Member), University of Kansas

Groundwater Technical Committee Home Page

ECOHYDROLOGY

Shirley Papuga (Chair, 2017-2019)
Wayne State University

Diego Riveros-Iregui (Deputy Chair, 2017-2019)
University of North Carolina

Erkan Istanbulluoglu (Past Chair, 2015-2016)
University of Washington

Committee Members

• Elizabeth Agee (Student Member), University of Michigan
• Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Elizabeth Boyer, Penn State University
• David Chandler, Syracuse University
• Yannis Dialynas, Georgia Tech
• Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Salli Dymond University of Minnesota – Duluth
• Simone Fatichi, ETH Zurich
• Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, University of Michigan
• Angélica M Gómez (Student Member), University of North Carolina
• Adrian Harpold, University Nevada Reno
• Khandker Ishtiaq, West Virginia University
• Aline Jaimes, Texas A&M University
• Mark Johnson, University of British Columbia
• Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham
• Natasha Krell (Student Member), University of California, Santa Barbara
• Sylvain Kuppel, University of Aberdeen
• Jeremy Littell, USGS​/AKCSC
• Steve Loheide, University of Wisconsin
• Ashley Matheny, University of Texas at Austin
• Tony Parolari, Marquette University
• Stan Schymanski, ETH, Zurich
• Christina (Naomi) Tague​, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Sam Zipper, McGill University

Ecohydrology Technical Committee Home Page

CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY (formerly Surface Water)

Theresa Blume (Chair, 2017-2019)
GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Germany

Nicholas Zegre (Deputy Chair, 2017-2019)
West Virginia University

Dan Moore (Past Chair, 2015-2016)
University of British Columbia

 Committee Members

• Jim Freer, Bristol University
• Sarah Godsey, Idaho State University
• Brian McGlynn, Duke University
• Anna Kauffeldt, Upsalla University
• Alicia Kinoshita, San Diego State University
• Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas, Austin
• James McNamara, Boise State University
• Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech
• Kevin Bladon, Oregon State University
• George Allan
• Holly Barnard, University of Colorado Boulder
• Genevieve Ali, University of Manitoba
• Christa Kelleher, Syracuse University
• Anna Coles (Student Member), University of Saskatchewan
• Claire Tunaley (Student Member), University of Aberdeen
• Caitlin Rushlow (Student Member), Idaho State University
• TBD Member, 2017-2019

SOIL AND CRITICAL ZONE PROCESSES

Marc Kramer (Chair, 2017-2018)
Washington State University

Henry Lin (Deputy Chair, 2017-2018)
Penn State University

Committee Members

• Ester Sztein, The National Academies
• Xiaoyuan Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Michael Young, University of Texas, Austin
• Dani Or, ETH Zurich
• Yakov Pachepsky, USDA-ARS, Maryland
• Steve Banwart, University of Sheffield
• Susan Trumbore, MPI for Biogeochemistry, Germany
• Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University
• Harry Vereecken, Julich Research Centre, Germany
• Ty Ferre, University of Arizona
• Luke Reyes (Student Member), Washington State University
• Carolyn Olson
• Kris van Looy
• Umakant Mishra

Soil and Critical Zone Processes Technical Committee Home Page

REMOTE SENSING

Mike Durand (Chair)
Ohio State University

Bart Forman (Deputy Chair)
University of Maryland

Iva Mladenova (Deputy Chair)
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
• Colby Fisher (Student Member), Princeton University

Standing Committees

Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee (formerly the Horton Award)

• Dara Entekhabi, MIT, 2019
• Paolo D’Odorico, University of Virginia, 2018
• Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University, 2019
• Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Berlin, 2018
• Jan Seibert, University of Zurich, 2018

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
• Fuqiang Tian, Tsinghua University

Horton Research Grant Committee (for Ph.D. Students)

• Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018 (Chair)
• Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech, 2018
• Josie Geris, University of Aberdeen, 2018
• Markus Hrachowitz, TU Delft, 2018

Fellows Committee

• Scott Tyler, University of Reno, 2018 (Chair)
• Bridget Scanlon, University of Texas, Austin, 2017
• Harry Vereecken, University of Bonn, Germany, 2017
• Lawrence Band, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2018
• Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2018
• Georgia Destouni, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2018

Langbein Lecture Award Committee

• Peter Troch, University of Arizona, 2018 (Chair)
• James Kirchner, ETH Zurich, 2019
• Theresa Blume, GFZ Potsdam, 2019
• Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna, 2019

Paul Witherspoon Mid-Career Lecturer in Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee 

• Sally Benson, Stanford University, 2018 (Chair)
• Robert Zimmerman, Imperial College, United Kingdom, 2018
• Mary Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2018
• Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2018
• Alberto Guadagnini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2018
• Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2018

Ad Hoc Committee on Nominations

• Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California, Irvine, 2018 (Chair)
• Mary Hill, Kansas State University, 2018
• John Selker, Oregon State University, 2018
• Carol Kendall, U.S. Geological Survey, 2017
• Thorsten Wagener, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 2017
• Chris Soulsby, University of Aberdeen, 2018
• Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona, 2018

Outstanding Student Presentation Award Committee

• Charlie Luce, US Forest Service, Boise, 2018(Chair)
• Alicia Kinoshita, San Diego State University, 2018
• Rolf Hut, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2018
• Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire, 2019
• Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, 2019

Fall Meeting Program Committee

• Megan Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2018 (Chair)
• Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State University, 2019
• Laura Bowling, Purdue University, 2019
• Charlie Luce (Ex-Officio), US Forest Service, Boise, 2018

Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (2018 TBA)

• Megan R. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder

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
• Chadi Sayde, Oregon State University
• Bwalya Malama, California Polytechnic State University
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Jon Duncan, Penn State University
• Hatim Geli, New Mexico State University
• Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens
• Ming Ye, Florida State University