TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – To the south of The University of Alabama’s campus, in the Oakmulgee district of the Talladega National Forest, is the South Sandy Creek watershed. It’s where Dr. Arial Shogren and her students are collecting data to see how ecosystems are impacted by headwater stream networks. These networks serve as vital arteries that…
During the recent annual Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology Science Meeting, Marouane Temimi, an associate professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, received the CIROH Research to Operations (R2O) award, an achievement that spotlights the work of the consortium’s R2O team. Temimi’s project focused on advancing research in cold regions hydrology to…
The creation of a new machine learning tutorial based on a national snow model from researchers at The University of Alabama and the University of Utah has been funded by a grant from the Earth Science Information Partners. Dr. Ryan Johnson, an artificial intelligence research scientist at the Alabama Water Institute, and his collaborator, Dane Liljestrand,…
The University of Alabama has been awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to establish a unique hydrologic science research and training program for graduate students. The NSF Research Traineeship award, or NRT, will bring together master’s and Ph.D. students from a variety of water disciplines. UA’s new project, called Water-R2O, will start them…
To address the growing necessity for high-quality software in research, The University of Alabama recently hired Dr. Karnesh Jain as UA’s first research software engineer. A research software engineer, or RSE, can develop software related to domain-specific research, such as science, engineering, digital humanities, computational simulations, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They can work with…
The Alabama Water Institute has launched its five-year strategic plan to guide its mission of carrying out cutting edge and applied research and to train the next generation of scientists to provide working, novel solutions for a more water-secure world. The plan, which outlines the institute’s path until 2026, focuses on the collaborations of water…
Flooding should be less of a problem for one area of The University of Alabama campus. A new underground stormwater detention basin beneath the Tutwiler Triangle Lot will help quickly reduce the amount of standing water after heavy rain. The basin, located at the corner of Bryant Drive and 10th Avenue, has a capacity of…
Peyman Abbaszadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in The University of Alabama’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. He is also a research assistant in the Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research (CCHR), a research center of the Alabama Water Institute. Originally from Iran, Abbaszadeh came to UA to pursue his Ph.D. in hydrology and water…
Dr. Jongkwan Kim is a visiting scientist to the Alabama Water Institute from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. His expertise focuses on hydrology, primarily distributed land surface, hydrological and hydrometeorological modeling. His interest in these areas helped bring him to Tuscaloosa. “Water is an important resource for all living life, and The University of…
Water is one of the most important resources on the planet, and researchers at The University of Alabama are calculating ways to improve its quality and management. Part of this equation is the collaboration between various disciplines through the Alabama Water Institute. Affiliated faculty members in the Department of Mathematics are offering their expertise in…
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