Daniel Wright Email & Phone Number

Madison, WI, US

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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.

-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.

-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

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering And Water Resources

Activities and Societies: Technical Advisor-Engineers Without Borders Princeton University Chapter, Peru Project Student Member-Engineers.

Mse, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Executive Committee Board Member-Better Living Using Engineering (BLUELab), Member-Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering.

Bse, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Executive Committee Board Member-Better Living Using Engineering (BLUELab), Member-Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering.