Chapter 1 About the Sustainable Watersheds Group at UVA
1.1 What do we do?
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interdisciplinary work at the intersection of hydrology and biogeochemistry
broadly focused on how water quantity and quality is modified at different spatial (local site to watershed to continental) and temporal (sub-daily to decadal) scales. This work has the goal of helping stakeholders and communities address water issues, and develop understanding and/or tools to help them manage their water resources.
1.2 Who are we?
I envision our group to be a vibrant group of researchers from diverse backgrounds (both in life and previous academic training) working together to understand the causes and towards solutions to complex socio-environmental phenomena. We use a variety of tools to tackle these problems - we use primarily computational techniques from data synthesis, numerical modeling, remote sensing, and machine learning. We work at the intersection of many fields and our combined expertise comes from areas such as environmental engineering, biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, geography, economics, and more!
A bit about me
Originally from Canada, I started my academic career studying to be an environmental engineer at the University of Waterloo. I originally didn’t consider a career in research and was set on becoming an engineer after graduation. After a stroke of luck, I spent a term as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Nandita Basu and found myself drawn to the research process. Thanks to the great mentorship and community in the research group, I stayed and completed my graduate degrees there as well, studying the role of surface water-groundwater interactions on biogeochemical processes. After graduation, I went to Colorado State University to work with Dr. Matt Ross to develop process-guided deep learning models to predict