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Current Members

  • Dr. Sagy Cohen

    Professor, Lab Director

    Sagy Cohen

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

  • Dr. Anupal Baruah

    Post Doctoral Researcher

    Flood Inundation Modeling and Evaluation

  • Monica Stone

    Ph.D Student

    student researcher

    Bankfull Discharge Estimation Using Novel Datasets

  • Parvaneh Nikrou

    Ph.D. Student

    Hydraulic Simulation of Floods Across Scales and Regions

  • Chance Jones

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

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    Channel Geometry Data Compilation

  • Pranav Sundararajan

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Rating Curve Analysis and Modeling

Former Members

  • 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

  • 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