topDennis P. Lettenmaier—President–Elect, Hydrology
Lawrence E. Band—President–Elect, Hydrology
Venkataraman Lakshmi—Secretary, Hydrology
Michael N. Gooseff—Secretary, Hydrology
Dennis P. Lettenmaier—President–Elect, Hydrology
AGU member since 1973. Professor of civil and environmental engineering, University of Washington. Major area of interest is surface water hydrology and climate. B.S., University of Washington, 1970; M.S., George Washington University, 1973; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1975. University of Washington faculty since 1976, on IPA loan to U.S. Geological Survey National Headquarters, 1985–1986, and NASA Headquarters, 1997–1998 (program manager, Land Surface Hydrology Program). Member, American Meteorological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, European Geosciences Union, American Water Resources Association, American Society of Civil Engineers. Total number of refereed publications, 190 (~65 in AGU journals). Fellow, AGU and AMS; member, International Water Academy; Huber Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990; AMS Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer, 2005; AMS Robert E. Horton Lecturer, 2008; AGU Hydrology Section Award, 2000. (Inaugural) chief editor, AMS Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1999–2005; Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, 1989–1993, 2006 to present; Deputy Editor, WRR, 1994–1997. Hydrology program chair, AGU Fall Meeting, 1982–1984; member, AGU Meetings Committee, 1984–1988; chair, Surface Water Committee, 1988–1991; AGU Chapman Conference coordinator, 1992–1994; past member, Hydrology Section Fellows Committee, member of six NRC committees over last 15 years and numerous national and international scientific advisory committees.
Statement: AGU is the primary professional “home” for most hydrologists, not only in the United States but also in much of the rest of the world. The health of the section is therefore extraordinarily important to the community, and we have been lucky to have had an exceptionally qualified and dedicated series of section presidents. Nonetheless, the section does face challenges. The number of section members has (slightly) increased over the past couple of years, but not so rapidly as AGU membership as a whole. The number of Fall Meeting papers has exploded, as has the number of sessions. Still, there are approximately 7000 Hydrology section members, only about 1500 of whom attend meetings. A smaller number (declining rapidly) hold individual subscriptions to WRR. So what is it that binds the 5000 or so “silent” members to the section? This is something we need to understand much better. Notwithstanding my own resistance to surveys, I think we are past due for one that will provide information about what the section membership expects from AGU. Another challenge that the section needs to address is the future of WRR. Marc Parlange and his team of editors have done an excellent job of running the journal, and those operations are (I believe correctly so) essentially “fire walled” from the section leadership. Nonetheless, I believe that a broad discussion needs to be opened as to how the journal should evolve in the electronic age, when the identity afforded by those blue-covered volumes is rapidly vanishing. If elected, I will place a priority on better understanding the motivation of the membership for being affiliated with the section.
Lawrence E. Band—President–Elect, Hydrology
AGU member since 1986. Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor and chair, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. B.A. (1977), geography, State University of New York at Buffalo; M.A. (1979) and Ph.d. (1983), geography, University of California, Los Angeles. Research has concentrated on ecohydrology, emphasizing distributed measurement and modeling of water, carbon, and nutrient cycling at the landscape level and the geomorphic structure and development of watersheds. Recent work in the last decade has concentrated in LTER sites, including HJ Andrews, Coweeta, and Baltimore. Academic appointments at Hunter College, City University of New York (1983–1987), University of Toronto (1987–1998), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1998 to present). Fifty-eight refereed publications (nine in AGU journals) in a range of outlets in hydrology, ecology, and geography. Deputy editor for Surface Water, Water Resources Research (2001–2004), chair of AGU Surface Water Committee (2000–2003), coconvener of 2001 Chapman Conference on Hillslope Hydrology, chair of the CUAHSI Working Committee on Hydrologic Observatories (2002–2004). Currently a member of two NRC panels.
Statement: I bring an interdisciplinary background and perspective to hydrology and am an advocate of increasing our interactions and joint activities with other ecosystem and Earth systems scientists both inside and outside of AGU. The strength and integration of our community are coordinated by the technical working committees. I would work to expand interdisciplinary themes of interest to the membership through these committees, and promote greater interaction with the policy and education sections. In collaboration with other sections at AGU and other professional societies we should continue to target key hydrologic science issues that are considered major societal challenges and coordinate productive and visible activities that contribute to their solution. This may include novel sessions and outreach opportunities at Joint Assemblies that are difficult to arrange in the crowded Fall Meetings, as well as activities with CUAHSI and other environmental science consortia.
Venkataraman Lakshmi—Secretary, Hydrology
Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi joined AGU as a student member in 1987. He is currently a full professor in geological and marine sciences and an adjunct professor of biological sciences at University of South Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from University of Roorkee (India) in 1987 and his doctorate in civil and environmental engineering in 1996 from Princeton University. He worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, in the Laboratory for the Atmospheres from 1995 to 1999. Since 1999 he has been on the faculty at the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has over 50 peer-reviewed journal publications (and 140 conference and other invited presentations). He served as lead editor of the book Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology and Climate, published by AGU in 2001. He has served as the Editor of Eos, and Associate Editor of both Water Resources Research and Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. He has been the chair of the Hydrology section technical committee on remote sensing and a member of the surface water, precipitation, large-scale field experimentation and the remote sensing technical committees. He has served as coordinator for the outstanding student paper competition (Spring 2000) and has chaired over 15 special sessions at AGU meetings. He is currently serving as the Hydrology section program cochair for the Fall Meeting.
Michael N. Gooseff—Secretary, Hydrology
AGU member since 1998. Currently assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. Major areas of interest are surface water/groundwater interactions, solute transport, biogeochemistry, ecohydraulics, watershed hydrology, and isotope hydrology. B.S. in civil engineering, Georgia Tech, 1996; M.S. in civil engineering, University of Colorado, 1998; Ph.D. in civil engineering, University of Colorado, 2001. Postdoctoral researcher in the Geosciences Department at Oregon State University, 2001–2002; assistant professor in the Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources Department, Utah State University, 2002–2004; assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2004–2007; currently assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Member of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Geological Society of America (GSA), North American Benthological Society (NABS). Author of 23 published papers, including three in Water Resources Research and one in Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences. AGU service: coconvened seven sessions at AGU meetings since 2002, Hydrology section SWOT committee (2003), and served on the Water Quality Technical Committee.