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Predicting the Vulnerability of Water Resources in a Changing Environment: Contributions from Hydrologic Science

Prof. Christina Tague
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Dr. Tague received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, Canada and has an undergraduate degree from the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She investigates the ways in which climate and land use/land cover change affects streamflow regimes and watershed biogeochemical cycling, emphasizing the interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes. She specializes in the development and application of spatial models, which are intended to be flexible, adaptive frameworks for integrating conceptual understanding with data from a variety of sources, including intensive field-based monitoring, experimentation, and remote sensing. Dr. Tague is one of the principal developers of a modeling framework called RHESSys (Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System), which provides information on the spatial patterns of vulnerability in water quantity and quality, and ecosystem health. Current projects include modeling climate change impacts on snowpack and summer streamflow patterns in the mountains of the Western US, and examining how urbanization alters drainage patterns and associated biogeochemical cycling at part of the Baltimore Long Term Ecological Research Site and in selected Southern California watersheds.

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