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Mariza Costa-Cabral



Mariza has moved on to found Hydrology Futures, a private company specializing in the hydrologic effects of global change. This U.W. page is no longer current as of January 2006.


Education

Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U of Washington, 1997
Thesis title:Effects of spatial constraints on channel network topology: Implications for geomorphological inference [Abstract]
Faculty advisor: Prof. Stephen J. Burges.
This thesis was awarded the international Straub Award of 1997 for a meritorious PhD thesis in Hydrology.

M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, 1990
Thesis title:A distributed, physically-based, rainfall-runoff model incorporating topography for real-time flood forecasting
Faculty advisor: Prof. Rafael L. Bras.

M.A. from Boston University, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, 1998. Non-thesis internship project (see professional appointments).

"Licenciatura" in Environmental Science and Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL/FCT), Lisbon, Portugal, 1986.

Refereed Publications

Costa-Cabral, M.C., Jeffrey E. Richey, Gopi Goteti, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Anond Snidvongs, Synergies between changes in climate, land cover/use and streamflow regulation in the Mekong River basin. To submit ASAP.

Costa-Cabral, M.C., Jeffrey E. Richey, Gopi Goteti, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Christoph Feldkoetter, and Anond Snidvongs, Landscape structure and use, climate, and water movement in the Mekong River basin. Hydrological Processes, In Press, 2007.

Schulte-Rentrop, A., M.C. Costa-Cabral, and R. Vink, Modelling the overland transport of lead deposited from the atmosphere in the Elbe catchment over four decades (1958-1995). Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 160, 271-291, 2005. [Download paper].

von Storch, H., M.C. Costa-Cabral, C. Hagner, F. Feser, J. Pacyna, E. Pacyna, and S. Kolb, Four decades of gasoline lead emissions and control policies in Europe: A retrospective assessment, The Science of the Total Environment 311, 151-176, 2003. [Download paper].

Costa-Cabral, M.C., and S.J. Burges, Sensitivity of channel network planform laws and the question of topologic randomness, Water Resources Research, 33(9), 2179-2197, 1997. [Download paper].

Costa-Cabral, M.C., and S.J. Burges, Digital Elevation Model Networks (DEMON): A model of flow over hillslopes for computation of contributing and dispersal areas, Water Resources Research, 30(6), 1681-1692, 1994. [Download paper]. [Download a clearer picture of Fig. 14]. [Download a clearer picture of Fig. 16].

Costa-Cabral, M.C., L. Garrote, R.L. Bras and D. Entekhabi, A Kinematic model of infiltration and runoff generation in layered and sloped woils, Advances in Water Resources, 15, 311-324, 1992.

Professional Appointments

January 2003-present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. (Research scientist as of 2005)

January 1998-December 2002: GKSS Research Centre, Institute of Hydrophysics, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany. Tenured position (Staff Scientist) starting January 2001.

January 1991-August 1991: Researcher at the Hydraulics Department of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

February 1987-June 1988: Student intern at the Massachusetts State Department of Environmental Management, Office of Hazardous Waste Management, Boston.

Professional Societies and Service

Associate Editor of the journal "Geomorphology", Elsevier Sci. Publ. Co., since 1999.

American Geophysical Union member since 1988.

Portuguese Water Resources Association member since 1991.

Portuguese Association of Environmental Engineers member since 1986.

Referee for the journals "Water Resources Research", "Computers & Geoscience", "Geomorphology", "Climate Research", and "Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres".

Recipient of the 2002 End 2005 Editors Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for "Water Resources Research", American Geophysical Union.


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