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
Recognizing and Modeling Variable Drawdown Due to Evapotranspiration in a Semiarid Riparian Zone Considering Local Differences in Vegetation and Distance from a River Source (with Brady Johnson, Bwalya Malama, and Warren Barrash), Water Resources Research (2013)
Riparian zones in semiarid regions often exhibit high rates of evapotranspiration (ET) in spite of...
Persistent Metal Contamination Limits Lotic Ecosystem Heterotrophic Metabolism after More Than 100 Years of Exposure: A Novel Application of the Resazurin Resorufin Smart Tracer (with Daniel Stanaway, Roy Haggerty, Shawn Benner, and Kevin Feris), Environmental Science & Technology (2012)
Persistent stress from anthropogenic metal deposition in lotic ecosystems is a global concern. This long-term...
Hydrologic Data Assimilation with a Hillslope-Scale-Resolving Model and L Band Radar Observations: Synthetic Experiments with the Ensemble Kalman Filter (with Rafael L. Bras and Dara Entekhabi), Water Resources Research (2012)
Soil moisture information is critical for applications like landslide susceptibility analysis and military trafficability assessment....
Hillslope Asymmetry Maps Reveal Widespread, Multi-Scale Organization (with Michael J. Poulos, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Shawn G. Benner), Geophysical Research Letters (2012)
Hillslope asymmetry is the condition in which oppositely-facing hillslopes within an area have differing average...
Small Soil Storage Capacity Limits Benefit of Winter Snowpack to Upland Vegetation (with T. J. Smith, James P. McNamara, Molly M. Gribb, Pam Aishlin, and Shawn G. Benner), Hydrological Processes (2011)
In the western United States, the mountain snowpack is an important natural reservoir that extends...
Presentations
Valley Asymmetry Maps for the American Cordillera Reveal Patterns Suggestive of Tectonic, Lithologic, Climatic and Fluvial Drivers (with Michael J. Poulos, Shawn G. Benner, and Jennifer L. Pierce), Rocky Mountain (63rd Annual) and Cordilleran (107th Annual) Joint Meeting (2011)
Valleys become asymmetric when tectonic, lithologic, climatic, ecologic or hydrologic drivers cause hillslopes on one...