Faculty
Guido Salvucci
Associate Chairman, Geography and Environment
Associate Professor, Geography and Environment
PhD, MIT, 1994
Areas of interest: Vadose zone hydrology (land surface water and energy balance processes; groundwater-vadose zone interactions; analytical descriptions of infiltration, drainage and evaporation processes); Remote sensing (estimation of evapotranspiration and water budget at large scales); Stochastic hydrology (spatial and temporal aggregation and disaggregation of hydrologic fields; measurement-model scale discrepancies; hypothesis testing in land-atmosphere interactions); and Hydroclimatology (coupled atmospheric water and energy balance processes).
Phone: 617-353-8344
Fax: 617-353-8399
E-mail: gdsalvuc@bu.edu
Website: http://people.bu.edu/gdsalvuc
Office: STO Rm 461, Center for Remote Sensing
675 Commonwealth Ave., 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Current Research
Recent projects include: 1) estimation of water vapor convergence over the Mississippi River Basin using top-of-atmosphere net radiation and the moist-static energy budget as constraints; 2) nonparametric estimation of the relation between soil moisture and land surface fluxes and how that relation scales spatially; 3) evaluation of the impact of large-scale irrigation on boundary layer fluxes in Southeastern Turkey using remote sensing data, mesoscale modeling, and the Bouchet-Morton complementarity framework; and 4) evaluating the influence of groundwater dynamics on land-atmosphere fluxes.
Courses Taught
- ES 317 Hydro Geol/Chem
- GG/ES 483/683
- GG/ES 514 Dynamics of Landsurface Hydrology
