Future Waters Luncheon (online) with Dr. Ameli

Presenter: Dr. Ali Ameli is an Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Geological Engineering at the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC. Dr. Ameli is an expert in critical zone hydrology, and his research addresses: Where does rain/snowmelt water go within the critical zone, and how does it reach the stream?

Title: Critical Zone Hydrology - The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth System Science and Management

The critical zone is a near earth surface layer from the tops of trees to the bottom of actively cycling groundwater. Water moves and reacts within the earth’s critical zone through a variety of hydrologic flow-paths. Dr. Ameli’s previous research has developed new mechanistic models to characterize hydrologic flow-paths within the earth’s critical zone in diverse environments across Canada, the USA, New Zealand, and Sweden. His research findings have shed light on the importance of hydrologic flow-path pattern in explaining how critical zone intermediates between water input (e.g., rain) and streamflow and vegetation growth. Dr. Ameli’s ongoing research is now focused on combining these mechanistic models with state-of-the-art data science and laboratory approaches to characterize hydrologic flow-path pattern within the earth’s critical zone, at high temporal-spatial resolution across the North America. This platform provides a unique hydrologic foundation to generate and test hydro-geochemical, hydro-ecological, and hydro-geomorphological hypotheses and theories, providing the governments and management authorities with science-based interdisciplinary decision-making tools for identifying lands suitable for sustainable agriculture and forestry developments, under a changing climate.

For participants in this Future Waters Luncheon: Dr. Ameli invites you to bring examples of how the knowledge on flow-paths of water movement within the earth’s critical zone can be informative in your fields of study.

If you are interested in knowing more about his research, find below the link for his website:

http://www.hydrogeosciencewatershedmanagement.com/

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