Project Results
Using sophisticated statistical machinery, the team showed that greater forestation and less-dense development increases the influence of rain on a reservoir. They also proposed a novel way to identify and characterize extreme reservoir events.

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Disciplines Involved
- Environmental Science
- Statistics
Project Team
Undergraduates: Tianyi Mu and David Clancy
Faculty Lead: Martin Doyle
Client Lead: Lauren Patterson, Water Policy Program Policy Associate
Lead mentor: Alireza Vahid, post-doc, ECE
Graduate mentor: Hamza Ghadyali graduate student, Mathematics