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
Portrait of Humberto Vergara
Education
PhD, Civil Engineering with focus in Water Resources, University of Oklahoma
MSc, Civil Engineering with focus in Water Resources, University of Oklahoma
BS, Environmental Engineering, El Bosque University, Colombia
Contact Information
Address

523B Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States