Dr. Alejandro "Lejo" Flores is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences. In 2008 he earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus in hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT he received the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Geophysical Union. His current research interests focus on predicting the spatial distribution of soil moisture by combining numerical model estimates with observational data. This past January, Dr. Flores presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society and he recently published an article in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and has another paper in press with Water Resources Research.
Articles
Impact of Hillslope-Scale Organization of Topography, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, and Vegetation on Modeling Surface Microwave Radiation Emission (with V. Y. Ivanov, D. Entekhabi, and R. L. Bras), Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations (2009)
Microwave radiometry will emerge as an important tool for global remote sensing of near-surface soil...
Channel-reach morphology dependence on energy, scale, and hydroclimatic processes with implications for prediction using geospatial data (with Brian P. Bledsoe, Christopher O. Cuhaciyan, and Ellen E. Wohl), Water Resources Research (2006)
Channel types found in mountain drainages occupy characteristic but intergrading ranges of bed slope that...