Dr.
Guido D. Salvucci is a Professor in the department Earth Sciences and the department of Geography and
Environment, and is the Chairman of
Earth Sciences. His
research interests include Vadose
zone hydrology (land surface
water and energy balance processes; groundwater-vadose zone interactions;
analytical descriptions of infiltration, drainage and evaporation processes); Remote sensing (estimation of evapotranspiration and water budget at large scales); Stochastic hydrology
(spatial and temporal aggregation and disaggregation of hydrologic fields;
measurement-model scale discrepancies; hypothesis testing in land-atmosphere
interactions); and Hydroclimatology
(coupled atmospheric
water and energy balance processes).
Recent
projects in these areas include: 1) estimation of water vapor convergence over
the Mississippi River Basin using top-of-atmosphere net radiation and the
moist-static energy budget as constraints; 2) estimation of the relation
between soil moisture and land surface fluxes and how that relation scales
spatially; 3) evaluation of the
impact of large-scale irrigation on boundary layer fluxes in Southeastern
Turkey using remote sensing data, mesoscale modeling, and the Bouchet-Morton
complementarity framework; and 4) evaluating the influence of groundwater
dynamics on land-atmosphere fluxes.
His
work has been published in Water
Resources Research, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Climate, Geophysical
Research Letters, and Advances in Water Resources, among others. His service to the scientific
community includes being an Associate Editor of Water Resources Research, an Editorial Board Member of Advances in Water Resources, a member of the National
Science Foundation's Hydrology
Section proposal review panel, the
American Geophysical Union Hydrology
Fellows Committee, and a member of
the National Research
Councilšs Committee on
Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. In
2003 the American Geophysical Union awarded him the James B Macelwane Medal and
named him a Fellow.