These pages contain information on the projects I am working or have worked on as a graduate student in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Burges. My research intersts include hydrologic and water quality modeling, evapotranspiration methods and neural network modeling.

My main research project consists in the development of a flexible framework for testing distributed hydrologic models at the hillslope scale.

The proposed method consists of three major steps. First we generate "hypothetical realities" representing the hydrologic response of a synthetic watershed modeled after the 10.5 ha Tarrawarra catchment in Australia. In the second step, a distributed hydrologic model is evaluated against the "hypothetical realities" representing an error-free data set of hydrologic variables. In the third step, a series of testing methods including event-based and continuous simulations, variable spatial and temporal scales and increasing amounts and types of model input data and observed are to be developed.

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Tarrawarra catchment, Australia - 30 cm integrated measured soil moisture states (Western and Grayson, 1998)