October 2005 - present: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle, Washington.

August 2003 - September 2005: Graduate assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii.

July 1996 - July 1999: Research associate at the Remote Sensing Center, Qinghai Meteorological Bureau, Qinghai P.R. China.

Current Projects

1. Study retrospective, current and future land cover change effects on hydrology in Puget Sound, Washington.
2. Study climate change (mainly temperature change) effects on hydrology in Puget Sound, Washington.

Main Publications

Lan Cuo, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler. 2009. Distributed Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model Parameter Sensitivity Analysis within Tropical and Temperature Catchment Hydrological Processes (in review).

Marketa M Elsner, Lan Cuo, Nathalie Voisin, Jeffrey S Deems, Alan F Hamlet,Julie A Vano, Kristian EB Mickelson, Se-Yeun Lee, and Dennis P Lettenmaier, 2009. Implications of 21st century climate change for the hydrology of Washington State Climatic Change (in review)

Julie A. Vano, Nathalie Voisin, Lan Cuo, Alan F. Hamlet, Marketa McGuire Elsner, Richard N. Palmer, Austin Polebitski, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Climate change impacts on water management in the Puget Sound region, Washington, USA Climatic Change (in review)

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Marina Alberti and Jeffrey E. Richey. 2009 Effects of a century of land cover and climate change on the hydrology of Puget Sound basin Hydrological Processes 23: 907-933, DOI:10.1002/hyp.7228.

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Bernt V. Mattheussen, Pascal Storck, Matthew Wiley, 2008. Hydrological prediction for urban watersheds with the Distributed Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model, Hydrological Processes 22: 4205-4213, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7023.

Lan Cuo, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Zielger and Michael A. Nullet, 2008. The roles of roads and agricultural land use in altering hydrological processes in Nam Mae Rim Watershed, Northern Thailand, Hydrological Processes 22:4339-4354, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7039

Lan Cuo, John Vogler, and Jefferson Fox, 2008, Topographic normalization for improving vegetation classification in a mountainous watershed in Northern Thailand. International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted).

Joeseph H. Casola, Lan Cuo, Ben Livneh, Dennis P.Lettenmaier, M. Stoelinga, Philip W. Mote and John M. Wallace, 2009. Assessing the impacts of global warming on snowpack of the Washington Cascades, Journal of climate 22(10), 2758-2772, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2612.1.

Lan Cuo, Thomas. W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, and Michael A. Nullet, 2006. Use of the distributed hydrology soil vegetation model to study road effects on hydrological processes in Pang Khum experimental watershed, northern Thailand , Forest Ecology and Management. 224:81-94

Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, 1998, Monitoring and analyzing haze over Xining City in winter using NOAA-12 AVHRR remote sensing images, Meteorological Monthly, Vol. 24(6), pp.26-28.(In Chinese)

Lan Cuo, Miao Chunsheng, Wang Panxin, Chen Jielun, 1997. Multimeida computer aided instruction and the application in typhoon courseware, Application Research of Computers 14(10).(In Chinese)

Main Presentations

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Eric P. Salathe, Jeffrey Richey and Marina Alberti, 2008. UW Water Center Conference, Seattle, WA. Streamflow change due to land cover and climate change in the Puget Sound, Washington Poster presentation