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Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Dr. Alejandro "Lejo" Flores is an Associate 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.

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Dr. Alejandro "Lejo" Flores is an Associate 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.

Present	Associate Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Geosciences
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Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology, Earth Sciences, and Soil Science

Hydrology, Ecohydrology, Data Assimilation, and Geomorphology

2018 - Present	Integrated Multi-sector, Multi-scale Modeling (IM3) Scientific Focus Area
	Department of Energy
	Role: Co-investigator
	Colleague(s): DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Kendra Kaiser, and Vicken Hillis
	$200,000
2018 - 2020	Use regional models and satellite data to quantify how snow water storage in the Colorado Rockies has varied in space and time over past decades
	Department of Energy Office of Science Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program
	Colleague(s): Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Susan Hubbard, Desert Research Institute, University of Utah, University of Colorado at Boulder, NCAR, CSM, and Standford University
	$400,000

2018 - Present

Board of Directors Member, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CAUHSI)

2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, $457,205 five-year grant titled “Citizens, Conservation, and Climate: Research and Education for Climate Literacy in Managed Landscapes”
2011 Army Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
2007 Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union
2007 Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-Principal Investigator for an Army Research Office grant
Co-Investigator for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Grant

GEOS 505: Computation in the Geosciences
GEOS 411/511: Hydrology: Land-atmosphere interactions
GEOS 621: Simulation modeling in hydrology

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Data for Vegetation Maps for Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW) for the Year 2015 (Hamid Dashti, Andrew Poley, Nancy F. Glenn, et al.) Boise Center Aerospace Laboratory Data (2019)

The sparse canopy cover and large contribution of bright background soil, along with the heterogeneous vegetation types in close proximity are common challenges for mapping dryland vegetation with remote sensing. Consequently, the results of a ...

Data Associated with 'Coupling Biophysical Processes and Water Rights to Simulate Spatially Distributed Water Use in an Intensively Managed Hydrologic System' (Bangshuai Han, Shawn G. Benner, John P Bolte, et al.) MILES Data Sets (2017)

Humans have significantly altered the redistribution of water in intensively managed hydrologic systems, shifting the spatiotemporal patterns of surface water. Evaluating water availability requires integration of hydrologic processes and associated human influences. In this study, ...

Long-Term, Continuous Air Temperature Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly air temperature ...

Long-Term, Continuous Net Radiation Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized these data. This data set provides continuous hourly net ...

Long-Term, Continuous Precipitation Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly precipitation data ...

Long-Term, Continuous Relative Humidity Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly relative humidity ...

Long-Term, Continuous Snow Depth Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly snow depth ...

Long-Term, Continuous Solar Radiation (Incoming Shortwave) Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly solar radiation ...

Long-Term, Continuous Stream Discharge Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly stream discharge ...

Long-Term, Continuous Stream Temperature Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly stream temperature ...

Long-Term, Continuous Wind Direction Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly wind direction ...

Long-Term, Continuous Wind Speed Time Series from Measurement Sites in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) provides long-term environmental time series data to support hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research. Numerous theses and peer-reviewed publications have utilized this data. This dataset provides continuous hourly wind speed ...

Soil Moisture and Temperature Hourly Data for Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho, Lower Deer Point Weather Station (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

The Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) in Southwest Idaho provides long-term environmental time series data to support ongoing hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research and publication. Numerous theses, peer-reviewed publications and modeling efforts utilize these ...

Soil Moisture and Temperature Hourly Data for Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho, Lower Weather Station (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

The Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) in Southwest Idaho provides long-term environmental time series data to support ongoing hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research and publication. Numerous theses, peer-reviewed publications and modeling efforts utilize these ...

Soil Moisture and Temperature Hourly Data for Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho, Shingle Creek Ridge Weather Station (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

The Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) in Southwest Idaho provides long-term environmental time series data to support ongoing hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research and publication. Numerous theses, peer-reviewed publications and modeling efforts utilize these ...

Soil Moisture,Temperature, Electrical Conductivity and Heat Flux Hourly Data for Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, Southwest Idaho, Bogus Ridge Weather Station (James P. McNamara) Dry Creek Experimental Watershed Data (2017)

The Dry Creek Experimental Watershed (DCEW) in Southwest Idaho provides long-term environmental time series data to support ongoing hydrometerologic, ecosystem and climate change research and publication. Numerous theses, peer-reviewed publications and modeling efforts utilize these ...

Modeled Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Hydrology in the Upper Boise River Basin Idaho (Amy Steimke, Alejandro Flores, Bangshuai Han, et al.) The Lab for Ecohydrology and Alternative Futuring (LEAF) (2017)

Climate change directly affects the hydrologic cycle in mountainous watersheds, which has consequences for downstream users. Improved water projections under diverse potential climate futures are critical to improve water security and management in these watersheds. ...

31 Years of Spatially Distributed Air Temperature, Humidity, Precipitation Amount and Precipitation Phase From a Mountain Catchment in the Rain-snow Transition Zone (Patrick R. Kormos, Danny Marks, Mark Seyfried, et al.) Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory Data (2016)

Thirty one years of spatially distributed air temperature, relative humidity, dew point temperature, precipitation amount, and precipitation phase data are presented for the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed. The data are spatially distributed over a 10m ...

A 30-Year, Multi-Domain High-Resolution Climate Simulation Dataset for the Interior Pacific Northwest and Southern Idaho (Alejandro Flores, Matt Masarik and Katelyn Watson) The Lab for Ecohydrology and Alternative Futuring (LEAF) (2016)

Data for Evaluating Impacts of Climate Change on Future Water Scarcity in Treasure Valley, Idaho, Using a Coupled Model of Biophysical Processes and Water Rights (Bangshuai Han, Shawn Benner and Alejandro N Flores) MILES Data Sets

In semiarid and arid regions with intensively managed water supplies, water scarcity is a product of interactions between complex biophysical processes and human activities. Evaluating water scarcity under climate change necessitates modeling how these coupled ...

Peer-Reviewed Articles (50)

Influence of Subsurface Critical Zone Structure on Hydrological Partitioning in Mountainous Headwater Catchments (Hang Chen, Qifei Niu, James P. McNamara, et al.) Geophysical Research Letters (2024)

Headwater catchments play a vital role in regional water supply and ecohydrology, and a quantitative understanding of the hydrological partitioning in these catchments is critically needed, particularly under a changing climate. Recent studies have highlighted ...

Cold-Season Precipitation Sensitivity to Microphysical Parameterizations: Hydrologic Evaluations Leveraging Snow Lidar Datasets (W. J. Rudisill, A. N. Flores, H. P. Marshall, et al.) Journal of Hydrometeorology (2024)

Cloud microphysical processes are an important facet of atmospheric modeling, as they can control the initiation and rates of snowfall. Thus, parameterizations of these processes have important implications for modeling seasonal snow accumulation. We conduct ...

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign (D. R. Feldman, A. C. Aiken, W. R. Boos, et al.) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023)

The science of mountainous hydrology spans the atmosphere through the bedrock and inherently crosses physical and disciplinary boundaries: land–atmosphere interactions in complex terrain enhance clouds and precipitation, while watersheds retain and release water over a ...

Evaluating 3 Decades of Precipitation in the Upper Colorado River Basin from a High-Resolution Regional Climate Model (William Rudisill, Alejandro Flores and Rosemary Carroll) Geoscientific Model Development (2023)

Convection-permitting regional climate models (RCMs) have recently become tractable for applications at multi-decadal timescales. These types of models have tremendous utility for water resource studies, but better characterization of precipitation biases is needed, particularly for ...

Is Macroporosity Controlled by Complexed Clay and Soil Organic Carbon? (Aaron N. Koop, Daniel R. Hirmas, Sharon A. Billings, et al.) Geoderma (2023)

Multi-scale evidence of rapid, climate-induced soil structural changes occurring at yearly to decadal timescales is mounting. As a result, it has become increasingly important to identify the properties and mechanisms controlling the development and maintenance ...