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Marcelo H. Garcia
Professor, Organization Not Listed
Professional Experience
Professor
2025 - Present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1990 - Present
Education
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Doctorate
1989
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2022
Citation
For pioneering work on sediment transport and morphodynamics of rivers and marine environments
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Publications
Hydrodynamic Processes of Incipient Meander Chute Cutoffs: Laboratory Experiments With Implications ...
Meander chute cutoffs are a common and geomorphically important feature of meandering rivers, exhibiting complex dynamics and distinctive morpholog...
March 11, 2025
Input-variable sensitivity assessment for sediment transport...
September 29, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Development of a Predictive Model for Sediment Oxygen Demand and Its Application to Dissolved Oxygen Management in Bubbly Creek (Chicago, Illinois)
ADVANCEMENTS IN PROCESS-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODELING TO SUPPORT WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT I ORAL
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Chieh-Ying Chen, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis, Jennifer ...
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a crucial indicator of water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. The exchange of DO at the air-water interface through (re)...
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Modeling Interactions between Sewage Systems and Green Spaces in Chicago Using a Dual-Drainage Model – Case Study Indian Boundary Prairies.
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS: PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND WATER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT I POSTER
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Edwin Saavedra Cifuentes, Colleen OBrien, Joaquina...
The Indian Boundary Prairies (IBP) are a prairie-wetland complex, located in Markham, Illinois, south of Chicago, embedded in a residential area that ...
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Migration Dynamics of Bermejo River, Argentina, from Landsat Collection and Comparison with 1D Meandering Migration Model
ALLUVIAL RIVERS: PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS ACROSS SCALES III POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2024
Yi Luo, Marcelo H. Garcia
This study investigates the migration dynamics of the Bermejo River in northern Argentina by comparing Landsat-derived centerlines with a 1D meanderin...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Union Fellows Committee
2022 - 2024
Member
Hydrology Langbein Lecture Committee
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