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Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Chair in Environmental Engineering
Contact Information:
- Office: CivE 151 SAFL 301
- Phone: (612)626-0369
- Fax: (612)626-7750
- E-mail: efi@umn.edu
Personal Web Page: http://personal.ce.umn.edu/~foufoula/
Research Interests:
Major research interests are in the area of stochastic modeling of surface hydrologic and geomorphologic processes. Specific areas of research include modeling and estimation of space-time rainfall using rain gauge, radar, and satellite data; geomorphologic study of river networks, channel morphology, and hydrologic response. Current research focuses on understanding and quantifying the statistical structure of hydrologic processes at a range of scales of interest to hydrology. The purpose is to unravel scale invariant relationships from the highly irregular patterns exhibited by most hydro-geomorphologic processes, because most such relationships would have important practical implications for modeling, measurement and prediction over a range of scales. Of particular interest are remotely sensed rainfall fields and channel/channel network structures.
Dr. Foufoula conducts her research at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and for the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics.
Specific details about Dr. Foufoula's research may be found on her personal web pages.
Selected Publications:
Passalacqua P., F. Porté-Agel, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, C. Paola,
Application of dynamic subgrid-scale concepts from large-eddy simulation
to modeling landscape evolution, Water Resources Research, 42, W06D11,
doi:10.1029/2006WR004879, 2006.
Sklar L. S., W. E. Dietrich, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, B. Lashermes, D.
Bellugi, Do gravel bed river size distributions record channel network
structure?, Water Resources Research, 42, W06D18,
doi:10.1029/2006WR005035, 2006.
Venugopal V., S. G. Roux, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A. Arneodo,
Revisiting multifractality of high-resolution temporal rainfall using a
wavelet-based formalism, Water Resources Research, 42, W06D14,
doi:10.1029/2005WR004489, 2006.
Basu, S., F. Porté-Agel, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, J.-F Vinuesa, and M.
Pahlow, M. Revisiting the local scaling hypothesis in stably stratified
atmospheric boundary layer turbulence: an integration of field and
laboratory measurements with large-eddy simulations, Boundary-Layer
Meteorology, in press, 2006.
Dodov, B., and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, Floodplain morphometry
extraction from a high resolution digital elevation model: a simple
algorithm for regional analysis studies, IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Letters, in press, 2006.
Gupta R., V. Venugopal, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A methodology for
merging multisensor precipitation estimates based on expectation-
maximization and scale-recursive estimation, J. Geophysical
Research,
111, D02102, doi:10.1029/2004JD005568, 2006.
Paola C., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, W. E. Dietrich, M. Hondzo, D. Mohrig,
G. Parker, M. E. Power, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, V. Voller, P. Wilcock,
Toward a unified science of the Earth's surface: Opportunities for
synthesis among hydrology, geomorphology, geochemistry, and ecology,
Water Resources Research, 42, W03S10, doi:10.1029/2005WR004336,
2006.
Venugopal, V., S. G. Roux, E. Foufoula-Georgiou and A. Arneodo,
Scaling behavior of high resolution temporal rainfall: New insights from
a wavelet-based cumulant analysis, Phys. Let. A, 348,335-345, 2006.
Dodov B., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, Fluvial processes and streamflow
variability: Interplay in the scale-frequency continuum and implications
for scaling, Water Resources Research, 41, W05005,
doi:10.1029/2004WR003408, 2005.
Foufoula-Georgiou, E. and A. Tsonis (editors), Space-time
Variability and Dynamics of Rainfall, A Collection of Papers from Fifth
International Conference on Precipitation, Crete, Reprinted from J.
Geophysical Research, 1997.
Foufoula-Georgiou, E. and P. Kumar, (editors), Wavelets
in Geophysics, Academic Press, 373 pages, 1994.
Education:
- Diploma, 1979, Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- M.S., 1982, Environmental Engineering, University of Florida
- Ph.D., 1985, Environmental Engineering, University of Florida
Experience:
- Co-director, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, 2001-present.
- Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, 1999-2004
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