Current Members

Sagy Cohen

Dr. Sagy Cohen

Professor, Lab Director

sagy.cohen@ua.edu

Flood Mapping, Modeling, and Remote Sensing; Global Fluvial Modeling

Dinuke

Dr. Dinuke Munasinghe

Research Scientist

dsmunasinghe@ua.edu

Remote Sensing, Geoprocessing

Anupal Baruah

Dr. Anupal Baruah

Research Scientist

abaruah@ua.edu

Flood Inundation Modeling and Evaluation

Dipsikha Devi

Dr. Dipsikha Devi

Post Doctoral Researcher

ddevi@ua.edu

Flood Inundation Modeling Intercomparison Framework

Yixian Chen

Dr. Yixian Chen

Post Doctoral Researcher

ychen223@ua.edu

3D Channels

Monica Stone

Monica Stone

Ph.D. Student

Bankfull Discharge Estimation Using Novel Datasets

Reihaneh Zarrabi

Reihaneh Zarrabi

Ph.D. Student

rzarrabi@crimson.ua.edu

Channel Morphology and Roughness Estimation

Parvaneh Nikrou

Parvaneh Nikrou

Ph.D. Student

pnikrou@crimson.ua.edu

Hydraulic Simulation of Floods Across Scales and Regions

Supath Dhital

Supath Dhital

MS Student

sdhital@crimson.ua.edu

Surrogate Flood Inundation Modeling

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Sadra Seyvani

sseyvani@crimson.ua.edu

Flood Prediction Optimization

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Greg Bliss

MS Student

Evaluation of Flood Inundation Mapping Predictions

Brandon Carter

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Serena O’Brien

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Former Members

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

Md. Tazmul Islam

MS, 2018, Global Bedload Flux Modeling

Tong Wan

MS, 2016, Global River Slope Analysis

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

  • 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