Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology

Guido Salvucci
Email: gdsalvuc@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994)

Vadose Zone Hydrology

My primary research topic is vadose zone hydrology, with special emphasis on how soil moisture interacts with the near surface atmospheric water and energy balance above, and with larger scale groundwater flows below. Understanding the hydrologic and energetic interactions at these two interfaces is crucial to explaining larger scale (e.g. hillslope-watershed-continental) behavior of the hydrologic cycle.

Some of the research projects which I am currently involved in are:

1) the development of a diagnostic evaporation estimation technique that is driven by remotely sensed land surface temperature and albedo anomalies;

2) analysis of the spatial structure of soil moisture, recharge and discharge and how they are related to soil texture and topography; and

3) the relation between canopy density, soils and climate in Australian woodlands.

Salvucci, G.D., and C. Song, 2000: Derived distributions of storm depth and frequency conditioned on monthly total precipitation: Adding value to historical and satellite-derived estimates of monthly precipitation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1(2), 113-120.
Saravanapavan, T., and G. D. Salvucci, 2000: Analysis of rate-limiting processes in soil evaporation with implications for soil resistance models, Advances in Water Resources, 23, 493-502.
Levine, J.B., G.D. Salvucci, 1999: Characteristic rate and time scales of supply-limited transpiration under Richards/Cowan framework, Water Resources Research, 35(12), 3947-3954.
Kim, C.P., G.D. Salvucci, and D. Entekhabi, 1999: Groundwater-Surface water interaction over simple hillslopes, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, 3(3), 375-384.
Levine, J.B. and G.D. Salvucci, 1999. Equilibrium analysis of groundwater-vadose zone interactions and the resulting spatial distribution of hydrologic fluxes across a Canadian prairie, Water Resources Research, 35(5), 1369-1383.
Amano, E., and G.D. Salvucci, 1999: Detection and use of three signatures of soil limited evaporation at FIFE, Remote Sensing of Environment, 67(1), 108-122.
Seely, B., K. Lajtha, and G.D. Salvucci, 1998: Differences in N fluxes along a gradient of soil texture in a coastal forest ecosystem on Cape Cod, Biogeochemistry, 42(3), 325-343.
Salvucci, G.D., 1998: Limiting relations between soil moisture and texture with implications for measured, modeled and remotely sensed estimates, Geophysical Research Letters, 25(10), 1757-1760.
Hatton, T.J., G.D. Salvucci, and H.Wu, 1997: Eagleson's optimality theory of an ecohydrological equilibrium: quo vadis? Functional Ecology, 11, 665-674.