Current Members
Dr. Sagy Cohen
Professor, Lab Director
Flood Mapping, Modeling, and Remote Sensing; Global Fluvial Modeling
Dr. Dipsikha Devi
Post Doctoral Researcher
Flood Inundation Modeling Intercomparison Framework
Monica Stone
Ph.D. Candidate
Bankfull Discharge Estimation Using Novel Datasets
Reihaneh Zarrabi
Ph.D. Candidate
Channel Morphology and Roughness Estimation
Parvaneh Nikrou
Ph.D. Candidate
Hydraulic Simulation of Floods Across Scales and Regions
Greg Bliss
MS Student
Evaluation of Flood Inundation Mapping Predictions
Serena O’Brien
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Former Members
Supath Dhital
Research Scientists, 2025-2026.
MS, 2025, Enhancement of Low-Fidelity Flood Inundation Mapping Through Surrogate Modeling
Riley McDermott
MS, 2024, Estimation of River Channel Shape Using Big Data-Driven Approaches
Nishani Moragoda
Ph.D, 2023, Anthropogenic and Climatic Impacts on Global River Sediment Dynamics in the 21st Century
Sera May
MS, 2023, The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Streamflow and Sediment Dynamics in Large Global Rivers
Anuska Narayanan
MS, 2022, Effect of Deforestation in the Amazon on Sediment Dynamics
Dinuke Munasinghe
Ph.D., 2021, Morphological Changes in Global River Deltas
Austin Raney
MS, 2021, Channel Geometry Representation in Continental Hydrological Models
Afrin Anni
Msc, 2019, Impacts of Land cover and Stormwater Infrastructure on Urban Flood Modeling
Mariam Khanam
MS, 2018, Effect of River Bathymetry on Riverine Flood Simulation
Tong Wan
MS, 2016, Global River Slope Analysis
Md. Tazmul Islam
MS, 2018, Global Bedload Flux Modeling
Shawn Carter
MS, 2016 Land use Parameterization in Global Riverine Sediment Modeling
Monica Stone
MS, 2016, Effects of Land-use Change on Hurricane-induced Flooding
Bradford Bates
Graduate Research Assistant, Flood Remote Sensing – U.S. Flood Inundation Map Repository
Nicholas Haney
Graduate Research Assistant, Global Future Land Use Modeling
Laurence Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stream Nitrogen Modeling
Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Brandon Carter: 2025 – FIM Remote Sensing
- Hannah Holderby: 2025 – Data processing
- Chance Johns: 2023-2024 – Bankfull Discharge Dataset
- Pranav Sundararajan: 2023-2024 – Rating Curve Analysis and Modeling
- Kiley Price: 2022-2023 – Remote Sensing Streamflow Framework
- Katie Bendall: 2022-2023 – NWIS Sediment Data Compilation
- Anuska Narayana: 2019-2020 – Continental Soil Moisture Analysis
- Henry Pitts: 2019-2020 – National Water Model Site Selection
- Laney Brager: 2019-2020 – Google Earth Engine analysis of river width
- Ben Hand: 2019 – River Deltas Land Use Classifications
- Austin Raney: 2018 – U.S. Flood Inundation Map Repository
- Ilham Ali: 2017-2018 – Hydraulic Simulations of Floods in Coastal Mississippi Counties
- Julia Zimmerman: 2017 – Green Infrastructure on UA Campus
- James Misfeldt: 2017 – Flood Inundation Mapping Using Satellite Remote Sensing
- Andrew Balch: 2017 -Incorporating Detailed U.S. Reservoir Data into a Global Dataset
- Bradford Bates: 2016 – US Sediment Flux Analysis
- Brie Lowery: 2014 – Global Water Discharge Trend Analysis
- Shawn Carter: 2014 – Trends in the Mississippi Basin Water Balance