Dr. Thorsten Wagener
Associate Professor
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Penn State University (814) 865-5673 (phone) |
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| Research | Courses | Vitae |
Primary Research Interests
Analysis and simulation of hydrologic systems
Specific Research Topics
Watershed hydrology
Model identification and evaluation
Predictions in ungauged basins
Uncertainty analysis
Data assimilation
Integrated assessment and modeling
Impacts of land-use and climate change
Courses Taught at Penn State
University
C E 361, Water Resources Engineering
C E 561, Introduction to Surface Water Hydrology
C E 597E, Water Resourses Seminar
C E 597A, A Systems Approach to Hydrologic Analysis
Education
2002 Ph.D., Imperial College London, UK, Civil & Environmental
Engineering
1998 I.R., Delft University of Technology, NL, Civil Engineering
and Geosciences
1995 Dipl-Ing, University of Siegen, D, Civil Engineering
Experience
Associate Professor, The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University (2009 - present)
Assistant Professor, The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University (2004 - 2009)
Research Associate, SAHRA & University of Arizona, USA (2002
- 2004)
Research Assistant, Imperial College London, UK (1998 - 2002)
Professional Memberships
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
British Hydrological Society (BHS)
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, UK)
Dutch Hydrological Society (NHV)
Honors and Awards
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources,
The University of Arizona (2005 - present)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 2002-2004
Unwin Prize, Dep. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial
College London, 2002
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Paper Award,
1999
DAAD Thesis Scholarship for Field Work in Africa, 1994
Recent Publications
Wagener, T., Wheater, H.S. and Gupta, H.V. 2004. Rainfall-runoff
modelling in gauged and ungauged catchments. Imperial College Press,
London, UK, 300 pp.
Gupta, H.V., Beven, K.J. and Wagener, T. 2004. Model calibration and uncertainty estimation. In Anderson, M.G. et al. (eds.) Encyclopedia of hydrological sciences. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, in Press.
Wagener, T., McIntyre, N., Lees, M.J., Wheater, H.S. and Gupta, H.V. 2003. Towards reduced uncertainty in conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling: Dynamic identifiability analysis. Hydrological Processes, 17(2), 455-476.
McIntyre, N., Wagener, T., Wheater, H.S. and Chapra, S.C. 2003. Risk-based modelling of surface water quality: a case study of the Charles River, Massachusetts. Journal of Hydrology, 274, 225-247.
Wagener, T., Wheater, H.S. and Gupta, H.V. 2003. Identification and evaluation of watershed models. In Duan, Q., Sorooshian, S., Gupta, H.V., Rousseau, A. and Turcotte, R. (eds.) Advances in calibration of watershed models. AGU Monograph, 29-47.
Wagener, T., Camacho, L.A. and Wheater, H.S. 2002. Dynamic identifiability analysis of the transient storage model for solute transport in rivers. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 4(3), 199-211.
Wagener, T., Lees, M.J. and Wheater, H.S. 2002. A toolkit for the development and application of hydrological models. In Singh, V.P. and Frevert, D.K. (eds.) Mathematical models of large watershed hydrology. Water Resources Publications LLC, USA, 91-140.
Wagener, T., Boyle, D.P., Lees, M.J., Wheater, H.S., Gupta, H.V. and Sorooshian, S. 2001. A framework for development and application of hydrological models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 5(1), 13-26.