Research keywords: climate change, hydrology, runoff, drought, water resources, urban growth, land use change

My research is centered around the intersection of climate change, hydrology, and urban growth. Since the early days of my career, I have been interested in climate change and urban growth impacts on hydrology and water quality at basin scales, evaluating hydroclimatic data sets for hydrological analysis and modeling. More recently, I have studied the trends and propagation of drought and how people learn environmental science informally via artistic activities.

Publications

Visit my Google Scholar profile, Academia.edu page, or ORCID page for a complete list of my publications. For my blog posts based on my research work, see my LinkedIn page.

Current work

Here are my ongoing research projects or manuscripts:

• WaterMarks: An art/science framework for community-engaged learning around water and water management in an urban area (funded by the National Science Foundation, 2021-2025)
• Hydrological drought in basins with an intermittent streamflow regime in the US (manuscript under review)
• Streamflow drought characteristics in the Milwaukee River basin

Graduate students’ research

• Exploring Cryospheric and Biotic Responses to Warming in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic (ongoing doctoral research by Dean Maraldo)
• Improved Flood Risk Communication Using National Flood Hazard Layer and Community Resilience Estimates Data in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MS thesis by Christopher Archuleta, 2024)
• Baseflow Variability Due to Changes in Climate, Basin Characteristics, and Groundwater Withdrawals in the State of Wisconsin, USA (doctoral thesis by Susan Borchardt, 2022)
• A Coupled GIS Modeling Framework for Hydrologic Ecosystem Services and its Application to the Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Expansion (doctoral thesis by Feng Pan, 2019)
• High Capacity Wells and Baseflow Decline in the Wolf River Basin, Northeastern Wisconsin (MS thesis by Susan Borchardt, 2016)
• Regionalization of Hydrologic Response in the Great Lakes Basin: Considerations of Temporal Variability (MS thesis by Jonathan Kult, 2013)
• Decadal Changes and Future Projections of Precipitation in the Metropolitan Area of Milwaukee (MS thesis by Anke Keuser, 2012)