Guido D. Salvucci
Professor
Department Chairman
Office: Stone 141I
Phone: 617.353.8344
E-mail: gdsalvuc@bu.edu
Guido’s Homepage
Educational Background
| Ph.D. |
1994 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| M.S. |
1992 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| B.S. |
1989 |
New York University |
| B.E. |
1989 |
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, New York |
Research
Guido Salvucci’s primary research is on vadose zone hydrology and hydroclimatology. Research focuses on soil moisture interactions with atmospheric water and energy balance and with groundwater flows. Active projects include: development of global scale water balance estimation techniques driven by satellite remote sensing; analysis of the spatial structure of hydrologic fluxes and water table elevations through saturated zone-unsaturated zone coupling; analysis of mechanisms responsible for scaling relations between hydrologic flux and soil moisture; impact of large-scale irrigation on boundary layer processes.
Surface Processes research group
Teaching
- Introduction to Hydrology (ES 317)
- Geodynamics II: Fluids and Fluid Transport (ES 483/ES 683)
- Dynamic Landsurface Hydrology (ES 514)
Recent Students
- Sam Tuttle; MA (candidate)
- Cory Pettijohn; PhD (2008)
- Mutlu Ozdogan; PhD (2005)
- Jennifer Saleem; PhD (2005)
- Vania Toninelli; PhD (2003)
- Hideki Kanamaru; PhD (2002)
- John B. Levine; PhD (2002)
- Thambirajah Saravanapavan; MA (1999)
- Michael R. Ravella; MA (1998)
- Etsuko Amano; MA (1997)
Selected Publications (*=student)
- Pettijohn, J. C.*, and G. D. Salvucci (2006), Impact of an unstressed canopy conductance on the
- Bouchet-Morton Complementary Relationship, 42(9), W09418, Water Resources Research.
- Salvucci, G.D., J. A. Saleem*, and R. Kaufmann (2002), Investigating soil moisture feedbacks on precipitation with tests of Granger causality, Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1305-1312. (Invited paper for the 25th Anniversary Issue).
- Salvucci, G. D. (2001), Estimating the moisture dependence of root zone water loss using conditionally averaged precipitation, Water Resources Research, 37(5), 1357-1366.
- 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.
- Salvucci, G.D. (1997), Soil and moisture independent estimation of stage-two evaporation from potential evaporation and albedo or surface temperature, Water Resources Research, 33(1), 111-122.
