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Daniel B. Wright
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Daniel B. Wright is an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research, teaching, and outreach focuses on extreme rainfall, floods, and how both are influenced by meteorology, urbanization, and climate change.
Professional Experience
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Associate Professor
2016 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2013
Current Roles
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
Honors & Awards
Publications
Urban Ecohydrology: Accounting for Sub‐Grid Lateral Water and Energy Transfers in a Land Surface Mod...
Although urbanization fundamentally alters water and energy cycles, contemporary land surface models (LSMs) often do not include key urban vegetati...
March 25, 2024
Process‐Based Quantification of the Role of Wildfire in Shap...
December 21, 2023
Performance of Fire Danger Indices and Their Utility in Pred...
November 20, 2023
Ensemble Representation of Satellite Precipitation Uncertain...
August 15, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Rainfall spatiotemporal variability effects on adverse flow conditions in urban stormwater systems: a case study of the Richmond tunnel in San Francisco, California
URBAN HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY: TOWARD SUSTAINABLE URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE I POSTER
hydrology | 13 december 2023
Yichen Tao, Abdulmuttalib Lokhandwala, Vitor G. Ge...
Urban expansion and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events bring new challenges to stormwater collection systems. One ...
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A Novel Method for Compound Flood Driver Attribution to Inform Urban Coastal Flood Risk Management
ADVANCING FLOOD CHARACTERIZATION, MODELING, AND COMMUNICATION VI POSTER
hydrology | 13 december 2023
Daniel Lassiter, Julianne Quinn, Daniel B. Wright
Quantifying compound flood risk in coastal communities is a global challenge exacerbated by the complex spatiotemporal variability and correlations of...
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Process-based Quantification of the Role of Wildfire in Shaping Flood Frequency
ADVANCES IN QUANTIFYING IMPACTS AND EXTENTS OF LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE ON HYDROLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE III ORAL
hydrology | 12 december 2023
Guo Yu, Tao Liu, Luke McGuire, Daniel B. Wright, J...
Moderate to high (M-H) severity wildfire can abruptly alter watershed properties and enhance extreme hydrologic responses such as debris flows and flo...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
2019 - 2021
Chair
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
2019 - 2021
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
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