Distinguished Lecture Series 2021

Preparing for Floods
Hannah Cloke, Reading University, UK

Large-scale hydrological co-variation patterns: essential for water security, emerging from data, but not captured by modeling and reanalysis
Gia Destouni, Stockholm University, Sweden

River networks as ecological corridors. A coherent ecohydrological perspective for global water security
Andrea Rinaldo, Ecole Plytechnique Fédéral Lausanne, Italy

Climate change and threats to water security
Alexander Gelfan, Water Problems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Assessing climate impacts on river water sources using basin specific isoscapes
Renee Brooks, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA

Field observations of hydrological flow path evolution over 10 millennia
Theresa Blume, GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience

Global to Local Hydroclimatic Networks – Dynamics and Predictability
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, USA

HydroShare: A system for data sharing and collaboration in hydrology by hydrologists for hydrologists
Dave Tarboton, Utah Water Research Laboratory, USA

Distinguished Lecture Series Fall 2020

Connectivity of the dashed lines: hydrological variation along intermittent streams
Dr. Ilja van Meerveld, University of Zurich

Running the Distance in Cogwheels - Multiscale Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Hydroclimatic Change
Dr. Ana Barros, Duke University

The Ecohydrology of Woody Plant Encroachment: How the Conversion of Grasslands to Woodlands is Altering the Water Cycle
Brad Wilcox, Texas A&M

Moving toward the next generation of Arctic land models
Cathy Wilson, Los Alamos National Lab

Deeper groundwater drilling an unsustainable solution to groundwater depletion
Deb Perrone, UC Santa Barbara

Classification and Similarity for Global Hydrologic Prediction
Ross Woods, University of Bristol

Coupled Hydrological and Biogeochemical Cycles in Watersheds: Responses to Anthropogenic Changes in the Critical Zone
Beth Boyer, Penn State University

Which rainfall events produces the largest flash flood?
Markus Weiler, Freiburg University

River corridors as global hotspots for microplastic accumulation, degradation and environmental impacts
Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham (UK)

Ecohydrological connectivity – What do we know and what’s next?
Genevieve Ali, University of Guelph

Distinguished Lecture Series 2019

Scientific discovery through computational hydrology
Dr. Reed Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines

Breakthroughs in Process-Based Hydrological Modeling
Dr. Bart Nijssen, University of Washington

How Will Changing Snow Change Streamflow?
Dr. Adrian Harpold, University of Nevada

Water in a changing environment: too much, too little, too hot?
Dr. David Hannah, University of Birmingham UK

Assessing Water Resources at Global to Local Scales
Dr. Bridget Scanlon, UT Austin

Biological darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet – greater areas of dark ice in a warming climate?
Dr. Martyn Tranter, Bristol University

Protecting our Waters: Managing Nutrient Legacies to Accelerate Water Quality Improvement
Dr. Nandita Basu, University of Waterloo

Local through global influences of human activities on mercury in aquatic ecosystems
Dr. Karen Kidd, McMaster University

Distinguished Lecture Series 2018

The modern theory of catchment transit times and its discontents
Dr. Ciaran Harman, Johns Hopkins University

Advances in continental-domain hydrologic modeling and prediction
Dr. Martyn Clark, Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Is it the model or is it the rainfall?
Dr. Witold Krajewski, Professor at the University of Iowa

Breakthroughs in river corridor research
Dr. Adam Ward, University of Indiana

Search for surviving remnants of early water on Earth
Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto

Two-way interactions between groundwater and food systems
Dr. Steven Loheide, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Impossible mission of hydrological modelling
Dr. András Bárdossy, University of Stuttgart

Using microwave remote sensing to study plant water stress response
Dr. Alex Konings, Stanford University

Human impacts on the deep terrestrial water cycle
Dr. Jennifer McIntosh, University of Arizona

Distinguished Lecture Series 2017

The soil is not enough -- Going Inside Hillslopes to Understand Moisture Return to the Atmosphere, and Controls on Tree Distribution, Stream Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution
Dr. William Dietrich, University California, Berkeley

The Human Dimension of Water Resources Systems: Implications for Research and Management Practices
Dr. Ximing Cai, University of Illinois

Ecological Puzzles and a Passion for Lakes: Cyanobacteria, Sensors, Citizens and Scientists
Dr. Kathleen Weathers, Cary Institute

Three Hydrologic Depths of the Earth's Critical Zone
Dr. Ying Fan Reinfelder, Rutgers University

Integrated Economics into Water Policy and Decision Making
Dr. Roy Brouwer, University of Waterloo

Advances in Cryosphere Monitoring: Measuring Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability and Ocean Dynamics using Fiber-Optic Sensing
Dr. Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno

Dancing in the Rain: On the Value of Fieldwork in the Hydrological Sciences
Dr. Tim Burt, Durham University

Compartmentalization of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
Dr. Jeff McDonnell, University of Saskatchewan

Distinguished Lecture Series 2016

Breakthroughs in Flood Research
Dr. Günter Blöschl, Vienna University of Technology

A General Theory of Learning with Models & Data
Dr. Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona

Effects of Climate Change on Watershed Dynamics: Insights from Geophysical Methods
Dr. Susan Hubbard, UC Berkeley

Seeking a Step Forward in Research and Education in Water Science
Dr. Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna

Advances in Ecohydrology in Changing Northern Regions
Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff, University of Aberdeen

Breakthroughs in Tracer-Aided Modelling
Dr. Chris Soulsby, University of Aberdeen

Risk-Based Water Resources Planning Under Uncertainty
Dr. Jim Hall, University of Oxford

How Rocks, Water and Living Organisms Turn Rock into Soil
Dr. Susan L. Brantley, Penn State University

Tracking the Global Water Cycle with the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission
Dr. Dara Entekhabi, MIT

Distinguished Lecture Series 2015

Advances in measuring, modeling and understanding the consequences of climate change on snow hydrology
Dr. Anne Nolin, Oregon State University

Trying to understand four decades of hydrologic change in a rapidly urbanizing, minimally-monitored basin, in the context of a growing water crisis
Dr. Sally Thompson, University of California Berkeley

Chemical weathering: Challenges for Earth, life and water scientists
Dr. Kent Keller, Washington State University

Water governance in the face of global change: From understanding to transformation
Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück

A global view on future major water engineering projects
Dr. Klement Tockner, Freie Universität Berlin

The freshwater debates: Simmering battles in the water sciences, assessment and management communities
Dr. Charles Vorosmarty, City University of New York

The fastest path is not a straight line: Preferential flows in soils and groundwater
Dr. Brian Berkowitz, Weizmann Institute of Science

Demystifying the pore: Using high-resolution imaging to better understand fluid flow in porous media
Dr. Dorthe Wildenschild, Oregon State University

Hydrologic design in the Anthropocene
Dr. Richard Vogel, Tufts University

Distinguished Lecture Series 2014

Breakthroughs in water quality analysis
Dr. James Kirchner, ETH Zurich

Breakthroughs in Tropical landuse change impacts
Dr. Sampurno Bruijnzeel, Free University Amsterdam

Breakthroughs in water sustainability in semi-arid regions
Dr. Dave White, Arizona State University

Breakthroughs in landscape-based rainfall-runoff
Dr. Hubert Savenije, Delft University of Technology

Breakthroughs in the biogeochemistry of Nordic aquatic systems
Dr. Kevin Bishop, Swedish University of Agricultural Studies

Quantifying transient storage with electrical geophysics
Dr. Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines

Soil moisture dynamics and stoichiometry controls on soil nutrient cycling
Dr. Amilcare Porporato, Duke University

Forest ecology and drought: Why geology matters!
Dr. Christina Tague, University of California Santa Barbara

Breakthroughs in water negotiations: Rationality, spirituality and shared waters
Dr. Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University

Effects of land hydrology on atmospheric processes and climate change
Dr. Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zurich

Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Breakthroughs in soil physics
Dr. Dani Or, ETH Zurich

Breakthroughs in instrumentation
Dr. John Selker, Oregon State University

Breakthroughs in lab experiments
Dr. Peter Troch, The University of Arizona

Breakthroughs in uncertainty estimation
Dr. Keith Beven, Lancaster University

Breakthroughs in hydroecological modelling
Dr. Larry Band, University of North Carolina

Breakthroughs in watershed observatory networks
Dr. Harry Vereecken, Bonn University

Breakthroughs in instream flow modelling
Dr. Leroy Poff, Colorado State University

Breakthroughs in engineering hydrology
Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of Minnesota

Breakthroughs in aquatic ecosystem science
Dr. Irena Creed, University of Western Ontario

Breakthroughs in isotope hydrology
Dr. Carol Kendall, United States Geological Survey

Breakthroughs in socio-hydrology
Dr. Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois