Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement,distribution,and management of water on Earth and other planets,including the water cycle,water resources,and drainage basin sustainability. A practitioner of hydrology is called a hydrologist. Hydrologists are scientists studying earth or environmental science,civil or environmental engineering,and physical geography. Using various analytical methods and scientific techniques,they collect and analyze data to help solve water related problems such as environmental preservation,natural disasters,and water management.
Jasper A. Vrugt is a Dutch scientist/engineer/applied mathematician known for his work in the earth sciences:surface hydrology,soil physics,hydrogeophysics,hydrometeorology,and geophysics. Vrugt is a professor at the University of California,Irvine and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth System Science. He also holds a part-time appointment as associate professor at the University of Amsterdam,Faculty of Science (CGE).
Mary Pikul Anderson is a hydrologist,geologist,and professor emerita of hydrogeology. She is a fellow of the Geological Society of America,the American Geophysical Union,and the National Academy of Engineering.
Murugesu Sivapalan is an Australian-American engineer and hydrologist of Sri Lankan Tamil origin and a world leader in the area of catchment hydrology. He is currently the Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,and professor of Geography &Geographic Information Science,at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign. Sivapalan is widely recognized for his fundamental research on scale issues in hydrological modeling,his leadership of global initiatives aimed at hydrologic predictions in ungauged basins,and for his role in launching the new sub-field of socio-hydrology.
Keith John Beven is a British hydrologist and distinguished emeritus professor in hydrology at Lancaster University. According to Lancaster University he is the most highly cited hydrologist.
Diane McKnight is a distinguished professor of civil,environmental,and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). McKnight is a founding principal investigator of the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
Peter S. Eagleson was an American hydrologist,author of Dynamic Hydrology and Ecohydrology:Darwinian Expression of Vegetation Form and Function. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1952 and was a Professor Emeritus. He held professional positions including member of the National Academy of Engineering and President of the American Geophysical Union from 1986-1988. He won many awards including the Stockholm International Water Institute's World Water Prize in 1997.
Lynn Walter Gelhar is an American civil engineer focusing in hydrology and is currently Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is recognized for pioneering research in stochastic subsurface hydrology,has leading research in the area of field-scale contaminant transport experiments,and has extensive experience on the hydrologic aspects of nuclear waste disposal.
Professor Günter Blöschl is an Austrian hydrologist,engineer and academic.
Anne Jarvis Jefferson is an American hydrologist who specializes in watershed hydrology,urban hydrology,and hydroecology. As of 2023,she is the Patrick Chair in Watershed Science and Planning at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Previously she was an associate professor at Kent State University in the Department of Geology,which became the Department of Earth Sciences.
Irena Creed is a Canadian hydrologist. She is the Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation at University of Toronto Scarborough in Toronto,Canada,and was formerly the Associate Vice-President for Research at the University of Saskatchewan,and the Executive Director of the University of Saskatchewan's School of Environment and Sustainability in Saskatoon,Canada. Creed studies the impacts of global climate change on ecosystem functions and services,often focusing on the hydrology of freshwater wetlands and catchments.
Jeff Dozier was an American snow hydrologist,environmental scientist,researcher and academic. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science &Management at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
Holly RenéBarnard is an American geographer and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies how vegetation impacts the dynamics and pathways of streams. In 2020 Barnard was awarded a $7 million National Science Foundation grant to set up a Critical Zone Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Donald Ira Siegel is the emeritus Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor in the department of Earth Science at Syracuse University. He served as the president of the Geological Society of America from July 2019 until June 2020. Siegel is known for his work in wetland geochemistry and hydrogeology.
Dörthe Tetzlaff is a German hydrologist who is Professor of Ecohydrology at Humboldt University zu Berlin and Head of Department at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries,Berlin,Germany,since 2017. Tetzlaff was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017,Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018,Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2019,Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2022 and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2023.
Carol Kendall is a hydrologist known for her research tracking nutrients and contaminants in aquatic ecosystems using isotopic tracers.
Ajay Kumar Dalai is an Indian-Canadian chemical engineer. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair of Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing at the University of Saskatchewan.
Eric Franklin Wood was a Canadian-American hydrologist.
Thomas J. Schmugge is an American physicist and hydrologist.
Renzo Rosso is an Italian hydrologist recognized for his contributions to water resources and environmental engineering.
