Development of flood hazard and risk assessment tools using NASA precipitation and other global satellite-based datasets; assessment of flood hazards in developing country watersheds; error characterization and modeling in precipitation; high-resolution distributed hydrologic modeling.

Management of project to standardize landslide and flood hazard and risk assessment and management in small Caribbean islands; development of strategies to generate national-level quantitative flood risk profiles; creation of training materials to build governmental capacity in flood risk assessment and management.

Doctoral Candidate, Hydrometeorology Research Group, Princeton University Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ (full-time, 2009-2013)• Development of long-term bias-corrected high resolution radar rainfall datasets for climatological rainfall analysis, flood risk estimation, and assessment of urban rainfall modification.• Development of alternative methods for assessment of urban flood risk using remote sensing rainfall estimates, high-resolution hydrologic models, and a stochastic storm transposition framework.• Analysis of rainfall hazards over the eastern United States from tropical cyclones in a changing climate using model output from a state-of-the-art regional climate model.

Development of hydraulic designs and technical reports for small hydropower installations.

· Development of hydraulic design methodologies and designs for small hydropower installations · Economic and technical feasibility and pre-feasibility analysis for small-scale hydropower schemes · Development and presentation of teaching materials to improve local capacity for hydraulic engineering design and analysis, with a focus on small-scale hydropower systems · Development of policy recommendations for reform of the small hydropower approval process and non- consumptive water rights allocations in Chile; development of presentation materials for government, private sector, and academic audiences

-Design and construction supervision of small-scale gravity-fed water supply systems, prefabricated composting latrines, small scale irrigation systems, and wetland wastewater treatment systems-Preparation and evaluation of sanitation education programs and operations and maintenance modules-Experience coordinating development activities between municipal governments, NGOs, consultants, contractors, and communities

-Conducted field data collection of soil samples in potentially contaminated floodplain zones-Performed principle components analysis and cluster analysis to identify contamination patterns and sources-Performed geostatistical analysis in R and ArcGIS to identify spatial patterns in soil contamination

-Refined laboratory experiments and data collection techniques to measure evaporation of water through bare soil in a shallow water table situation-Conducted statistical analysis on a variety of meteorological and evaporation data-Developed a non-linear regression model to predict post-rain event latent heat flux through bare soil