2023 - 2024 AGU Ecohydrology Technical Committee Members

Salli Dymond (she/her)
Chair, 2022 - 2023
Associate Professor
Northern Arizona University
Research Interests: As a forest hydrologist, I investigate how and when forests interact with and exert control over the hydrologic cycle, especially following environmental disturbance. Find out more at www.dymondlab.com.

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi
Deputy Chair, 2021 - 2022
Assistant Professor
University of California Berkeley

Octavia Butler


Stephen Good (he/him)
Associate Professor
Oregon State University
Research Interests: My research focuses on understanding transpiration across scales as well as other ecological determinates of the fate of water within catchments.

Amy Hansen
Assistant Professor
University of Kansas

Achla Jha
Graduate Research Assistant
Texas A&M University

Aurora Kagawa-Viviana
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Lauren Lowman (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Wake Forest University
Research Interests: My research investigates how extreme events affect overall ecosystem health, productivity, and sustainability using numerical models, geospatial data analysis, and field experiments.
Lauren Lowman (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Wake Forest University
Research Interests: My research investigates how extreme events affect overall ecosystem health, productivity, and sustainability using numerical models, geospatial data analysis, and field experiments.

Ashley Matheny
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Sushant Mehan
University of Wisconsin Madison

Bryn Morgan
University of Texas at Austin

Indira Paudel
Carnegie Institute of Science

Tony Parolari
Marquette University

Stan Schmanski
Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology

Doerthe Tetzlaff
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

Jeannie Wilkening
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Sam Zipper (he/him)
Assistant Scientist (Groundwater Ecohydrologist)
Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas
Research Interests: Sam leads the HydroEcology of Anthropogenic Landscapes (HEAL@KGS) research group, with the goal of understanding how local, regional, and global change can and will affect the water resources of Kansas and the Great Plains region now and in the future. For more information see samzipper.com.
Former Leadership
Diego Riveros-Iregui (Chair Jan 2020 - Dec 2021)
Shirley (Kurc) Papuga (Chair Jan 2017 - Dec 2019)
Erkan Istanbulluoglu (Chair Jan 2015 - Dec 2016)
Enrique Vivoni (Chair Jan 2013 - Dec 2014)
Kelly Caylor (Chair Jan 2010- Dec 2012)
Paolo D'Odorico (Founding Chair Jan 2008 - Dec 2009)
Shirley (Kurc) Papuga (Chair Jan 2017 - Dec 2019)
Erkan Istanbulluoglu (Chair Jan 2015 - Dec 2016)
Enrique Vivoni (Chair Jan 2013 - Dec 2014)
Kelly Caylor (Chair Jan 2010- Dec 2012)
Paolo D'Odorico (Founding Chair Jan 2008 - Dec 2009)