Michael Dettinger Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nv

Reno, Nv

Carson City, Nv

Hydroclimatology & climate changeStudies of global, Western North American, and Sierra Nevadan hydroclimatology of precipitation, snowpack, and streamflow using historical and paleo-records of atmospheric circulations, ocean temperatures, streamflow, groundwater, and water quality. Development of innovative constructed-analogs downscaling, component-resampling, and derived-distribution approaches as tools for evaluating global-change and shorter term climate predictions and their hydrologic consequences. Evaluation of climate-change projections for changes in western climates, large-scale Pacific-basin climate modes, flood statistics, streamflow and ground-water recharge. Development and implementation of new and innovative hydrometeorological monitoring methods, Yosemite National Park. Continuations of climate-service assessment activities within CAP, and extension to State-funded California Climate Change Center. Co-designer of Enhanced Flood Response and Emergency Preparedness Program networks for California. Team leader for extreme winter storm scenario development, USGS multi-hazards evaluation program.

HydroclimatologyContinuation of global, Western, and Sierra Nevada hydroclimatology of precipitation and streamflow using historical and paleo-records of atmospheric circulations, ocean temperatures, streamflow, groundwater, and water quality. Global- to watershed-scale climate downscaling. Medium-range streamflow forecasting, Sierra Nevada, and long-range steamflow forecasting nationwide. Simulations of ground-water/surface-water sensitivities to climate variations, including the use of remote-sensed insolation variations for NASA Earth Science Innovations Program. DOE-funded Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative simulations of Sierra Nevada watershed sensitivities to climate changes. NOAA-funded California Applications Program (CAP) for regional integrated science and assessment of climate applications by water and other resource management sectors.

Study of Western Hemisphere ENSO and PDO effects on streamflow. Initial medium-range forecasts of Sierra Nevada snowmelt and streamflow. Developer of CDC Global Streamflow dataset.

HydroclimatologyStudies of sensitivity of water resources of California to interannual-decadal climate variations and change by analysis of historical hydroclimate and simulations of snowmelt/watershed responses. Analyses of freshwater-inflow variations to San Francisco Bay and Delta. Analysis of large-scale basis and predictability of global, hemispheric, and Western US hydroclimatic variations using historical and paleo-records of atmospheric circulations, trace gases, ocean temperatures, streamflow, ground water, and water quality. Modeling and nonlinear dynamics of land-air interactions through planetary-boundary layers. Co-developer of UCLA Singular-Spectrum-Analysis Toolkit, 1995.

Assessments of groundwater resources, flow and chemistry in bedrock and alluvial aquifers; groundwater modeling; regional synthesis of hydrogeologic framework and flow systems, eastern and southern Great Basin; and District Groundwater Specialist, including program development and review, and representation of USGS to public forums, Legislature and State Engineer.

Water-resources consulting & groundwater modelingResource evaluations, groundwater flow/transport modeling, and water quality management studies for DOE nuclear-waste programs, Guam EPA, water-quality districts, and chemical industry.

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences

Ms, Civil Engineering (Water Resources)

Ba, Physics