Hydrology, Water Resources & Environmental Fluid Mechanics

  • Rain garden
    鈥淐ities with more resources can lead on advancing knowledge and practice by monitoring and evaluating stormwater control measure networks,鈥 said Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, the study's co-author. 鈥淭hese cities can also benefit from learning about the approaches used by other cities, for example, to share information on effectiveness of approaches.鈥
  • Aditi Bhaskar with the Flatirons blurred behind her.
    Water Resources Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar is studying a lesser-known consequence of irrigation efficiency: the potential reduction in streamflow, which could have implications for urban stream health, recreation and downstream users.

  • Balaji Rajagopalan
    Water Resources Professor Balaji Rajagopalan grew up in a small railroad town near Hyderabad, India, in a home without running water. Now an expert in hydrology, climatology and water resources, Rajagopalan was recently honored with a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship and an opportunity to make a difference in his native country.聽
  • Aerial photo of lake with declining water level
    More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in聽Science.聽 The article was coauthored by Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Associate Professor Ben Livneh, both from 麻豆免费版下载Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.聽Fangfang Yao, a CIRES visiting scholar, was the lead author.
  • Aditi Bhaskar
    Aditi Bhaskar, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded $66,501 in funding from The Water Research Foundation (WRF) for the research project, "Advancing Adaptive
  • John Crimaldi in his Ecological Fluid Dynamics Lab.
    Using bright green lasers and camera equipment, a team of 麻豆免费版下载Boulder engineers ran an experiment to reveal how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air when a lid-less, public restroom toilet is flushed. Now published in Scientific Reports, it is the first study to directly visualize the resulting aerosol plume and measure the speed and spread of particles within it.
  • Ben Livneh
    CIRES Fellow and WWA Director Ben Livneh was announced as American Geophysical Union鈥檚 (AGU) 2022 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award recipient. Being selected as a Section Honoree is bestowed upon individuals for meritorious work or service
  • John Crimaldi
    From figuring out where memories are stored to how sensory information translates to behavior, new technologies are helping neuroscientists better understand how the brain works. Hear from several experts, including 麻豆免费版下载Professor John Crimaldi, on
  • Ben Livneh
    Ben Livneh was interviewed by Denver 9News for a piece focusing flash flooding over the Cameron Peak Fire burn scar.The floods caused serious damage in the Glen Haven, Crystal Mountain and Buckhorn areas of Larimer County. 
  • Burn scorched trees in the mountains
    When Western wildfires break out, water may first come to mind as a critical resource for helping extinguish it. But what about after the flames finish? A 2022 麻豆免费版下载study on the growing impact of wildfire on the Western U.S. water supply found that
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