Who Are We ?

Jim Stagge

Assistant Professor

stagge.11@osu.edu

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Jim is a hydrologist and registered civil engineer with a research focus on hydrologic extremes and water resources management to decrease drought vulnerability. He is most interested in modeling drought risk across long time scales by generating long synthetic time series or by linking centuries of pre-Industrial reconstructions with modern observations and climate change projections.

Jim loves traveling and hiking with his wife and two dogs. 48 states and 36 U.S. national parks and counting.

Irenee Munyejuru

Doctoral Student

munyejuru.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Irenee is a hydrologic modeler interested in uncovering the impacts of land use and land cover change from that of other potential forcings. His work aims to analyze land cover trends and attribute their respective impacts at the watershed scale. He is also interested in the long-term impacts of climate extremes on water resources in both historical and future periods.

Also, Irenee enjoys listening to classic music. He is learning to play tennis and aspires to playing guitar.

• M.S. Catholic University of Leuven
• B.S. University of Rwanda

Connor O'Keefe

Master's Student

okeefe.100@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Connor is a hydrologist and engineer-in-training with a research focus on hydrometeorological processes and flood risk analysis. He is specifically interested in quantifying trends in streamflow behavior to see if they are consistent with climate change. At OSU, he hopes to continue his education in climate extremes and its impacts on human and environmental health.

Connor enjoys reading, hiking, and exploring new places.

• B.S. University of Cincinnati

Ish Gad

Master's Student

gad.13@buckeyemail.osu.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepiratebey

Ish graduated with a bachelors in civil engineering. After graduation, I worked for Inland Pipe Rehabilitation, an underground water infrastructure industry for about 1.5 years before joining Bloom Technologies, a small landscape technology startup..

• B.S. University of Toledo

Kyungmin Sung

• Topic: Bayesian approach for observing long-term and seasonal drought trend and variability
• Currently: Research fellow at the Korean Environment Institute (KEI)

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wk9FDU8AAAAJ&hl=en

Sophea Hussain

• Topic: Impact of Climate Change on 24-hour Precipitation IDF Curves in the Midwest
• Currently: BS Student - The Ohio State University

Bryant Willis

• Topic: Temporal Autocorrelation in the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
• Currently: BS Student - Central State University

Zhirou Yao

• Topic: Bimodality in the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
• Currently: BS Student - Central State University

Md Atif Ibne Haidar

• Topic: Comparative Frequency Analysis of Reconstructed and Modelled Precipitation Signal Components of Past Climate in North America
• Currently: Practicing Civil Engineer

Benjamin Phillips

• Topic: Using teleconnections to predict El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effects on precipitation in the Midwest
• Currently: MS student - The Ohio State University

Max Torbenson

• Topic: Reconstruction of sub-annual paleoclimate and hydrology using tree-ring proxies
• Currently: Postdoc - Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

• http://torbenson.strikingly.com/

Trace Eberhardt

• Topic: Prediction of agricultural losses and drought impacts by meteorological drought
• Currently: Ohio Dept. of Transportation

Lipi Agrawal

• Topic: Predicting the likelihood of a drought based on historical impact and precipitation data
• Currently: Systems Engineer - M.C. Dean, Inc.

Kangxuan Ye

• Topic: Augmented reality tool for visualizing hydraulic simulations

Elizabeth Neudeck

• Topic: Erosion and hydraulic trends in Cleveland Metroparks reference streams
• Currently: USGS Water Science Center

Julie Ahrnsen

• Topic: Paleoreconstruction of naturalized Bear Lake inflow from tree rings for water management risk