Dr. Julian Zhu

Title: Maki Chair of Hydrologic Sciences
Title: Associate Research Professor
Affiliation: Division of Hydrologic Sciences
Location: DRI Las Vegas
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Phone: 702.862.5416

Professional Interests

Scale issues in hydrology related to ecosystem functioning, upscaling of hydrological and ecological processes, evapotranspiration estimates and remote sensing applications, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, subsurface hydrology, numerical modeling of hydrology and fluid mechanics, stochastic analysis and its applications, random processes and spatial variability, multiphase fluid flows and contaminant transport in porous media, artificial neural network applications in hydrology and ecology.

Professional Highlight

• Member: American Geophysical Union (AGU), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Geological Society of America (GSA), W2188 USDA Multi-State Research Group, Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS), The Ecological Society of America (ESA), European Geosciences Union (EGU), Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada (Registered Professional Engineer)
• Associate Editor: Soil Science Society of America Journal (SSSAJ)
• Author/Co-author/Presenter: Over 200 technical articles, conference proceedings/presentations/abstracts, and technical reports
• Reviewer: Over 100 manuscripts and grant proposals for about 30 journals and funding agencies
• Chairperson/Convener: 8 sessions at AGU, ASSA-CSSA-SSSA, GSA meetings in recent years
• University Teaching Experience: Geostatistics, Hydrogeology, Advanced Hydrogeology (Groundwater Modeling), Reservoir Mechanics

Research Areas

Recent Projects

• Significance of Groundwater Divide in Water Accounting and Return Flow Calculation for Lower Colorado River Aquifers, Bureau of Reclamation
• Analyzing Groundwater Fluctuations to Better Estimate Water Use through evapotranspiration by Tamarisk, Bureau of Reclamation.
• Integration of Climate Change Impacts into Risk and Uncertainty Analyses, Army Corps of Engineers
• METRIC Uncertainty Analysis, Bureau of Reclamation, DRI-Nevada Department of Water Resources Program
• Uncertainty and Sensitivity of Ground-Water Discharge Estimates for the Shrublands in the Great Basin Area, U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research Institute Program, Nevada Applied Research Initiative
• Partition of Evapotranspiration and Scale Issues in Arid Landscape, U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research Institute Program, Nevada Applied Research Initiative
• Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of Anisotropic Soils, U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research Institute Program, Nevada Applied Research Initiative
• New Method to Estimate Soil Hydraulic Parameter Uncertainty and Heterogeneity, Department of Energy

PhD Research Assistantship Available

• Vadose Zone Hydrology