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

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

Kaveh Madani (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
• Y.C. Ethan Yang, University of Massachusetts
• Julie Quinn (Student Member), Cornell University

WATER QUALITY

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

Chair-Elect TBD

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

Committee Members

• Ana Barros, Duke University
• Aaron Berg, University of Guelph
• Paul Brooks, University of Arizona
• Christine Hatch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Chad Higgins, Oregon State University
• Noah Molotch, University of Colorado Boulder
• Fred Ogden, University of Wyoming
• Christoph Rudiger, University of Monash
• Enrique Vivoni, Arizona State University
• Michael Cosh, USDA-ARS
• Justin Adams (Student Member), University of Guelph
• Chelsea Peters (Student Member), Vanderbilt University

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)
University of Arizona

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

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

Committee Members

• Jeremy S. Littell , U.S. Geological Survey
• Stan Schymanski, ETH, Zürich, Soil and Terrestrial Env. Physics
• Christina (Naomi) Tague, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Natasha Krell (Student Member), University of California, Santa Barbara
• Mark Johnson, University of British Columbia
• Elizabeth Boyer, Penn State University
• Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Yannis Dialynas, Georgia Tech
• Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham

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

Alejandro Flores (Chair, 2015-2016)
Boise State University

Mike Durand (Deputy Chair, 2015-2016)
Ohio State University

Committee Members

• Cedric David, NASA JPL
• Sara Sadri, University of California, Los Angeles
• Alexandra Konings,Stanford University
• Kaighin McColl, Harvard University
• Bart Forman, University of Maryland
• Hatim Geli, New Mexico State University
• Hamed Alemohammad, Columbia University
• Dongryeol Ryu, University of Melbourne
• Jeff Deems, NSIDC
• Iva Mladenova, USDA ARS
• Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University
• Colby Fisher (Student Member), Princeton University

Standing Committees

Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee (formerly the Horton Award)

• Peter Kitanidis, Stanford University, 2017 (Chair)
• Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, 2017
• Paolo D’Odorico, University of Virginia, 2018
• Dara Entekhabi, MIT, 2019
• Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University, 2019

Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award Committee

• Sally Thompson, University of California, Berkeley, 2017 (Chair)
• Kelly Caylor, University of California, Santa Barbara 2017
• Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017
• Brad Wilcox, Texas A and M, 2019
• Irena Creed, Western University, 2019
• Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria, 2019

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

• Rina Schumer, Desert Research Institute, 2017 (Chair)
• Amir Aghakouchak, University of California, Irvine, 2017
• Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech, 2018
• Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 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

• Laurel Larsen, University of California, Berkeley, 2017 (Chair)
• Peter Troch, University of Arizona, 2018
• 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

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

Outstanding Student Paper 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 Committee

• Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017 (Chair)
• Megan Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2018
• Laura Bowling, Purdue University, 2019
• Charlie Luce (Ex-Officio), US Forest Service, Boise, 2018

Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (2017 TBA)

Ad-hoc Student Travel Grant Committee (2017 TBA)