Nathalie Voisin

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. candidate
nathalie at hydro dot washington dot edu
206 543 7633

Current Research

Education

• M.SC. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Qc, 2003
  under the supervision of Professors H. G. Leighton and E. D. Soulis (University of Waterloo, ON)


• Engineering Diploma in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, ENSEEIHT, France, 2001

Positions held

• February 2003 -present : Graduate Research Assistant
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


• September 2001 - December 2002: Graduate Teaching Assistant
  Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC


• June - July 2000 : Intern
  Lyonnaise des Eaux, Bordeaux, France


• August 1997: Intern
  EDF (Electricite de France), Le Blayais Nuclear Power Plant, Le Blayais, France

Publications

• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: Evaluation of precipitation products for global hydrological prediction. J. of Hydrometeorology (accepted).
• Voisin, N., A. F. Hamlet, L. P. Graham, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2006: The role of climate forecasts in western U.S. power planning. Journal of Applied Meteorology45, No. 5, pp 653-673.
• Christensen, N.S., Wood, A.W.,Voisin, N., Lettenmaier, D.P. and R.N. Palmer, 2004: Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin, Climate Change , vol. 62,Issue 1-3, 337-363.

Presentations

Oral

• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, 3rd HEPEX workshop, June 2007, Stresa, Italy, Downscaling global medium range met eorological predictions for flood prediction.
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier and E.F. Wood, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, April 2 007, Use of satellite remote s ensing for medium range global flood prediction.
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, April 2007 Potential for medium-range global flo od prediction.
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, UW-UBC symposium, September 2006, Medium-range global flood prediction
• Voisin, N., D.P. Lettenmaier, EGU (Vienna), April 2006, Global Flood and Drought Prediction ( set up for retrospective forecasting)
• Hamlet, A.F., A.W. Wood, N. Voisin , D.P. Lettenmaier, T. Westerling, D. Pierce, T. Barnett, CIG Fall Forecast Meeting, Kelso, WA, Oct, 2006, Long-Range Hydropower Forecasts for the Columbia River, Colorado River, and Sacramento/San Joaquin Systems
• Hamlet, A.F., A.W. Wood,N. Voisin, D. Pierce, T. Westerling, D.P. Lettenmaier, T. Barnett, CPASW Meeting, Tucson, AZ, March 2006, Long-Range Hydropower Forecasts for the Columbia River, Colorado River, and Sacramento/San Joaquin Systems
• Voisin, N. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 5th International Scientific Conference on GEWEX (Orange County, CA), June 2005, Global Flood and Drought Prediction
• Voisin, N., UW Hydrology Group seminar, April 2005, Covariability of Climate and Hydropower in the western U.S.
• Hamlet, A.F.,A.W. Wood, N. Voisin, D.P. Lettenmaier, Portland General Electric Outreach Meeting, Portland, OR, Feb, 2005, PDO/ENSO-Based Streamflow Forecasts in the PNW: Climatological Foundation to Quasi-Operational Products
• Voisin N., A.F. Hamlet, P. Graham, D.P. Lettenmaier, Fall UBC/UW Hydrology Symposium, 2004, Hydropower Variabilities in the Western U.S. ; Consequences and Opportunities
• Voisin N., H.G.Leighton, E.D.Soulis and J.Feng,CMOS annual meeting in Rimouski, Quebec 22-25 May 2002. Sensitivity of the Mackenzie River Basin Hydrology to Solar Radiation Uncertainties

Poster

• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dec 2007, Verification of a downscaling sequence applied to medium range meteorological predictions for global flood prediction
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, 3rd HEPEX workshop, June 2007, Stresa, Italy, Downscaling global medium range meteorological predictions for flood prediction. (Mississippi, Danube and Zambeze case studies)
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier and E.F. Wood, The Water Center Annual Review of Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Feb 2007, Potential for medium range global flood prediction
• Voisin, N., A.W. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier and E.F. Wood, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 2006, The potential for medium-range global flood prediction
• Voisin, N. , D.P. Lettenmaier and A.W. Wood , CPC Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Boulder, Oct 2006, Potential for global flood and drought prediction"
• Voisin, N. and D.P. Lettenmaier, The Water Center Annual Review of Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Feb 2006, Global Flood and Drought Prediction
• Voisin, N., D.P. Lettenmaier and E.F. Wood, AGU Fall meeting, 2005, Evaluation of Precipitation Products to Force a Global Flood and Drought Prediction System
• Voisin N., D. P. Lettenmaier and R. Pinker , 84th annual AMS meeting, Seattle, January 11-15 2004, Use of GOES solar radiation to improve long-term retrospective land-surface simulations
• Voisin N., Y-S. Park, A. Hamlet, A. W. Wood, N. Guttman, D. P. Lettenmaier AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 2003, A 85-year retrospective Hydrologic Analysis for the Western U.S.
• Doten, C.O., Bowling, L.C., Maurer, E.P., Voisin, N., Lettenmaier, D.P., AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Dec 2003, Development of a Sediment Transport Component for DHSVM

Personal

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