Expertise

 Interests:

  • Hydraulics
  • Hydrology

Research Interests:

  • Relationships between vegetation and the water cycle
  • Soil moisture and evapotranspiration
  • Ecosystem Restoration
  • Green Infrastructure for Stormwater

Current Projects

  • A landscape-scale approach to wetland mitigation of non-point source agricultural runoff
  • Water quality testing services support for the State University of Haiti-Limonade
  • Use of vegetative covers for repairing shallow slope failure and mowing-induced rutting
  • Hydrologic behavior of porous pavements on Alabama soils
  • Optimization of green infrastructure for stormwater management in Alabama communities

Subject area:

  • Water Resources.
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University
2016

Postdoc, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Northern Arizona University (past)
2013 - 2016

PhD Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University (past)
2007 - 2013

Communities
Civil Engineering
Degrees
PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013
BA, Harvard University, Cambridge, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 2007
Keywords
deserts forestry water resources engineering water resources management or planning plant ecology hydrology watersheds