I defended my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Colorado on August 2006. My research is on Surface Hydrology. My thesis advisor was Dr. Vijay Gupta.
The title of my dissertations is Physical Basis of Statistical Self-Similarity in Peak flows for Random Self-Similar Networks. On this work I investigated the two basic physical components that explain the power law exponents observed in the relationship between Peak Flows and Basin Area at the single storm scale. These two components are River Network Topology and Network Hydraulic Geometry. [more...]
I am one of the architects of HidroSig, a GIS developed by the Water Resources Department at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I am now developing a more specialized version of the software, which I call CUENCAS. This new application is designed specifically to deal with River Networks. It includes tools for geomorphologic analysis, data organization, and flow simulations.
I am currently working with Dr. Witek Krajewski on the development of Hydrologic Observatories to test the predictions of the Theory of Floods. These predictions include power laws in event-scale peak flows and connections of characteristics of the flood frequency distribution to changing climatic conditions. |
