Humberto Vergara
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography
Other current positions:
- Assistant Research Engineer, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
Affiliations/titles:
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Faculty Research Engineer, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Special Fields of Knowledge:
- Numerical hydrologic modeling
- Flash flood forecasting and warning
- Remote-sensing hydrology
- Scientific computing in hydrologic applications
Research Areas:
- Extending flash flood forecasting capabilities in data-scarce regions
- Understanding flash floods in post-fire environments
- Improving physics representation in parsimonious hydrologic modeling techniques
- Extending lead times of flash flood forecasts and warning
Engineering Unit(s)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
- Iowa Flood Center
