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Upmanu Lall

Dr. Upmanu Lall's principal areas of expertise are statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems and water resource systems planning and management. He has over 25 years of experience as a hydrologist. He has been the principal investigator on a number of research projects funded by the U.S.G.S., the NSF, the U.S.A.F., N.O.A.A., U.S.B.R., D.O.E. and State of Utah and Florida agencies. These projects have covered water quantity and quality and energy resource management, flood analysis, groundwater modeling and subsurface characterization, climate modeling and the development of statistical and mathematical modeling methods. He has been involved as a consultant with specialization in groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling covering mining operations, streamflow modeling and water balance, risk and environmental impact assessment, site hydrologic evaluation and as a reviewer and as an expert on a number of other hydrologic problems. He has also taught over 20 distinct University courses.

Academic Training

University of Texas
Austin, TX
1980-1981
PhD. Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dissertation: Value of data in relation to uncertainty and risk
   
University of Texas
Austin, TX
1977-1980
M.S.. Civil & Environmental Engineering
Thesis: Mathematical models for water-energy systems
   

Indian Insititute of Technology
Kanpur, U.P., India

1971-1976
B. Tech. Civil Engineering

 

Employment Record

Columbia University Professor, Earth & Environmental Eng., 2000-date
  Visiting Professor, Columbia Earth Institute, 1999-2000
  Adjunct Research Scientist (Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs.), 1997-99
     
Utah State University Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering , 1995-2001
  Associate Director, Utah Water Research Lab., 1997-2001
  Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1988-95
     
U.S.G.S., Salt Lake City, UT Hydrologist 1988-89
     
University of Utah Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1987-88
  Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1981-87
     
ISMAL, Ranchi, India Prestressed Consulting Development Engineer, 1976-77


Teaching Experience

Undergraduate: Hydrology1,2, Water Resources Eng.1,2, Computations & Computer Analysis1, Fluid Mechanics Lab.1, Operations Research II1, Systems Analysis for Civil Eng1, Water Project Analysis1, Statistics in Water Resources1, Water Resource Systems Analysis1, Groundwater Engineering2, Earth Resources and the Environment3

Graduate: Optimization of Large Systems1, Applied Probability Theory1, Statistical Decision Theory1, Hydro-electric Power1, Stochastic Hydrology1,2, Groundwater Hydrology1, Groundwater Contaminant Transport2, Groundwater Quantity and Quality Modeling2, Spatial Hydrologic Analysis2, Physical Hydrology2, Low Frequency Hydro-Climatic Variability2, Environmental Statistics2, Hydroclimatology2.

1University of Utah, 2Utah State University, 3Columbia University