Early Career Research Fellow Track 2 (Environmental Protection and Stewardship Track) - Mauricio Arias
Implementing Organization
University of South Florida
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$75,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Arias is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (Tampa), where he is the principal investigator of the Watershed Sustainability Lab and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources. Dr. Arias is an ecological engineer who studies the interactions between water and coastal ecosystems, and how that interaction is affected by infrastructure and climate. He is especially interested in studying socio-environmental systems in the tropics and subtropics where the tradeoffs between water infrastructure and environmental health are rapidly growing and in need of robust scientific understanding and solutions. He holds a B.S. and M.E. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Dr. Arias returned to Florida in 2016 after completing a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University (2014-2016). Overall, Dr. Arias has published 42 journal articles on hydrological-ecological-societal interactions in water ecosystems around the world, primarily South East Asia, South America, and Florida, including an article featured in the December 2017 cover of Science, and one in Nature Sustainability in March 2020.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
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