Current Projects

Project. Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in Semi-arid Regions.

Sponsor. SAHRA/NSF

Period. 2005-8

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener

Project. National Needs Fellowship in Integrated Soil and Water Sciences

Sponsor. USDA

Period. 2005-8

Investigator(s). Henry Lin (PI), Thorsten Wagener, J. Kay, J. Shortle, G. Peterson

Project. Estimating Appropriate Model Complexity for Hydrological Forecasting in Gauged and Ungauged Basins

Sponsor. Claire Luce Booth Fellowship & Penn State College of Engineering

Period. 2005-8

Investigator(s). Kathryn van Werkhoven (Fellowship Recipient), Thorsten Wagener

Project. Modular Curriculum for Hydrological Advancement – Toward an Online Faculty Learning Community for Hydrology Education

Sponsor. NSF (CCLI)

Period. 2007-9

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener (PI), Priya Sharma, Brian McGlynn, Lucy Marshall, Mike Gooseff

Project. Understanding the Hydrologic Implications of Landscape Structure and Climate – Towards a Unifying Framework of Watershed Similarity

Sponsor. NSF (Hydrology)

Period. 2007-10

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener (PI), Peter Troch, Murugesu Sivapalan

Project. Humans Transforming the Water Cycle: Community-Based Activities in Hydrologic Synthesis

Sponsor. NSF (Hydrology)

Period. 2007-9

Investigator(s). Charles Vorosmarty (PI) [Thorsten Wagener (1 of 21 Co-Is)]

Completed Projects

Project. Parameterization and Parameter Estimation of Distributed Models for Flash Flood and River Prediction with Quantification of Uncertainty

Sponsor. NOAA/NWS

Period. 2004-7

Investigator(s). Hoshin Gupta (PI), Thorsten Wagener

Project. Classification of Susquehanna River Basin Watersheds in an Uncertainty Framework

Sponsor. USDI/USGS

Period. 2006-7

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener

Project. A Case-based Water Resources Engineering Course

Sponsor. Penn State Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

Period. 2006

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener (PI), Patrick Reed, Chris Duffy, Peggy Johnson, Dave Hill, Arthur Miller

Project. Development of a Site-Specific Flash Flood Forecasting Model for the Western Region

Sponsor. UCAR/NOAA/COMET

Period. 2003-5

Investigator(s). Hoshin Gupta (PI), Soroosh Sorooshian, Thorsten Wagener, Dave Goodrich, G. Sampson, Mike Schaffner, E. Bersack, Soni Yathentradas, Anne Stewart

Project. Improved Hydrologic Modeling for Flood Forecasting

Sponsor. NOAA/NWS

Period. 2003-4

Investigator(s). Hoshin Gupta (PI), Thorsten Wagener

Project. Advancing Regional Scale Hydrologic Modeling

Sponsor. DAAD – Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Period. 2002-4

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener

Project. Development of Irrigated Agriculture - The Introduction of Drip Irrigation in Rural Ethiopia

Sponsor. DAAD – Undergraduate Research Scholarship

Period. 1994-5

Investigator(s). Thorsten Wagener