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Murugesu Sivapalan

Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor

UIUC

Affiliations

The Grainger College of Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Earth, Society & Environment

Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science

Murugesu Sivapalan is currently serving as a Civil & Environmental Engineering Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor at Uiuc.

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Murugesu Sivapalan

UIUC

Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor

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hydrology hydrological process earth science water resource management geography water resources environmental science hydrological modeling catchment scales hydrometeorology environmental modelling ecohydrology hydrological sciences water balance hydrological behaviour civil engineering flood risk management water science surface-water hydrology surface runoff watershed management climatology environmental fluid mechanics climate change geoscientific model development water governance stormwater sustainability science meteorology sustainable development water sustainability river basin management climatic change environmental planning western australia hydraulic research soil dynamics water problem forest ecosystems hydrological disaster soil modeling water scarcity hillslope process sediment research urban hydrology hydroinformatics forest hydrology soil moisture hydrologic hazard water security sediment process agricultural water management catchment classification flash floods water resource systems flood control downward approach flow duration curve hydrologic similarity basin analysis terrestrial ecosystems social-ecological systems canopy micrometeorology sedimentation ungauged basins environmental flows landscape controls drought forecasting infiltration excess saturation excess similarity analysis panta rhei balance equations water fluxes grand challenge land use change water quality spatial heterogeneity

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Advancing Water Security in Semi-Arid Brazil: Expansion of Water Storage Infrastructure and Human-Water System Co-Evolution. Frontiers in Water (2025)

Bruno PereiraPedro MedeirosAntônio Alves Meira NetoJosé Carlos de AraújoMurugesu Sivapalan

water securityhydrological processsemi-arid brazilwater infrastructurewater resourcesearth sciencegeographywater resource managementwater scarcityhydrologyenvironmental sciencedrought

An Upscaling Approach for Estimating Field-Level Irrigation Water Use Through the Budyko Framework. Journal of Hydrology (2025)

Jingwen ZhangKaiyu GuanMurugesu SivapalanChongya JiangMing PanBin PengWang ZhouTrenton E. FranzXiaohong ChenKairong LinZejun Li

agricultural water managementupscaling approachbudyko frameworkwater resourceswater resource managementgeographyhydrologyirrigationwater scienceagricultural economics

A Unified Framework to Reconcile Different Approaches of Modeling Transpiration Response to Water Stress: Plant Hydraulics, Supply Demand Balance, and Empirical Soil Water Stress Function. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2025)

Yi YangKaiyu GuanBin PengXue FengXiangtao XuMing PanBrandon P. SloanJingwen ZhangWang ZhouLingcheng LiMurugesu SivapalanElizabeth A. AinsworthKimberly A. NovickZong‐Liang YangSheng Wang

water balanceenvironmental modellingempirical approachesplant water stressearth sciencesoil dynamicssoil modelingecohydrologywater stressenvironmental scienceecologydrought

Expanding and Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary Praxis. Frontiers in Water (2025)

Shinichiro NakamuraHeidi KreibichMelissa HaeffnerJenia MukherjeeGiuliano Di BaldassarreMaiko SakamotoMikiko SugiuraGünter BlöschlTaikan OkiMurugesu Sivapalan

sustainable developmentnoto peninsulatransdisciplinary perspectivessustainability sciencedisastersdisaster risk reductioninterdisciplinary communityenvironmental politicstransdisciplinary praxiscultural changesocial sciencessocial-ecological systemsenvironmental justicesocietal challengesanthropology

Panta Rhei: A Decade of Progress in Research on Change in Hydrology and Society. Hydrological Sciences Journal (2025)

Heidi KreibichMurugesu SivapalanAmir AghaKouchakNans AddorHafzullah AksoyBerit ArheimerKarsten Arnbjerg-NielsenCynthia Vail-CastroChristophe CudennecMariana Madruga de BritoGiuliano Di BaldassarreDavid C. FingerKeirnan FowlerWouter KnobenTobias KruegerJunguo LiuElena MacdonaldHilary McMillanE. Mario MendiondoAlberto MontanariMarc F. MullerSaket PandeFuqiang TianAlberto ViglioneYongping WeiAttilio CastellarinDaniel Peter LoucksTaikan OkiMaría J. PoloHuub SavenijeAnne F. Van LoonAnkit AgarwalCamila Alvarez-GarretonAna AndreuMarlies H. BarendrechtManuela BrunnerLouise CavalcanteYonca CavusSerena CeolaPedro ChaffeXi ChenGemma CoxonZhao DandanKamran DavaryMoctar DembéléBenjamin DewalsTatiana Frolova (Bibikova)Animesh K. GainAlexander GelfanMohammad GhoreishiThomas GrabsXiaoxiang GuanDavid M. HannahJoerg HelmschrotBritta HöllermannJean HounkpèElizabeth KoebeleMegan KonarFrederik KratzertSara LinderssonMaria Carmen LlasatAlessia MatanóMaurizio MazzoleniAlfonso MejiaPablo MendozaBruno MerzJenia MukherjeeFarzin Nasiri SalehBertil NlendRodric Merime NonkiChristina OrieschnigKaterina PapagiannakiGopal PennyOlga PetrucciRafael PimentelSandra PoolElena RidolfiMaria RuscaNivedita SairamAdarsh Sankaran NamboothiriAna Carolina Sarmento BuarqueElisa SavelliLukas SchoppaKai SchröterAnna ScolobigMojtaba ShafieiAnna E. Sikorska-SenonerMagdalena SmigajClaudia TeutschbeinThomas ThalerAndrijana TodorovicFaranak TootoonchiRoshanak TootoonchiElena TothRonald van NooijenFranciele Maria VanelliNicolás VásquezDavid W. WalkerMarthe WensDavid J. Yu

surface-water hydrologyhydrological processurban hydrologywater problemhydrological sciencespanta rheihydrological behaviourwater resourcesearth sciencewater resource managementecohydrologyflood risk managementhydrologyenvironmental sciencewater science

Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence as a Diagnostic Tool #160;. (2025)

Sheng YeJiyu LiYifan ChaiLin LiuMurugesu SivapalanQihua Ran

hydrological processexplainable aihydrological sciencesexplainable artificial intelligencemachine learningsoil moisturedata scienceearth sciencehydrologyhydrological modelingdeep learninghydroinformaticsneural network (machine learning)

A Diagnostic Approach to Modeling Watersheds With Human Interference. Journal of Hydrology (2024)

M. GarciaB. Mohajer IravanlooM. Sivapalan

watershed managementhydrological processhuman interferenceenvironmental modellingwater resourcesbiostatisticswater resource managementenvironmental monitoringhydrologyhydrological modeling

A Parsimonious Daily Water Balance Model Based on the Proportionality Hypothesis. Journal of Hydrology (2024)

Shuyue WuJianshi ZhaoMurugesu Sivapalan

water balancewater quantityhydrometeorologyenvironmental modellingwater resource policywater resourceswater resource assessmentwater resource managementwater demandhydrologyenvironmental scienceecologywater scienceproportionality hypothesis

EDITORIAL: Scale Issues in Human-Water Systems. Frontiers in Water (2024)

Pieter Van OelMurugesu SivapalanGiuliano Di BaldassarreFuqiang TianShinichiro NakamuraSara Marks

scale issueswater sustainabilitywater resource managementwater technology innovationenvironmental sciencewater supply

Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security Through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi‐Arid Brazil. Water Resources Research (2024)

Antônio Alves Meira NetoPedro MedeirosJosé Carlos de AraújoBruno PereiraMurugesu Sivapalan

water securitystorage capacityhydrological processhydrometeorologyhydrological sciencesreservoir expansionwater resourcesearth sciencegeographywater resource managementhydrologyhydrological modelingdrought

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Murugesu Sivapalan

Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor

UIUC

Affiliations

The Grainger College of Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Earth, Society & Environment

Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science

Murugesu Sivapalan is currently serving as a Civil & Environmental Engineering Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor at Uiuc.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Murugesu Sivapalan

UIUC

Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor

You can click a keyword to filter the displayed items

Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Advancing Water Security in Semi-Arid Brazil: Expansion of Water Storage Infrastructure and Human-Water System Co-Evolution. Frontiers in Water (2025)

Bruno PereiraPedro MedeirosAntônio Alves Meira NetoJosé Carlos de AraújoMurugesu Sivapalan

water securityhydrological processsemi-arid brazilwater infrastructurewater resourcesearth sciencegeographywater resource managementwater scarcityhydrologyenvironmental sciencedrought

An Upscaling Approach for Estimating Field-Level Irrigation Water Use Through the Budyko Framework. Journal of Hydrology (2025)

Jingwen ZhangKaiyu GuanMurugesu SivapalanChongya JiangMing PanBin PengWang ZhouTrenton E. FranzXiaohong ChenKairong LinZejun Li

agricultural water managementupscaling approachbudyko frameworkwater resourceswater resource managementgeographyhydrologyirrigationwater scienceagricultural economics

Yi YangKaiyu GuanBin PengXue FengXiangtao XuMing PanBrandon P. SloanJingwen ZhangWang ZhouLingcheng LiMurugesu SivapalanElizabeth A. AinsworthKimberly A. NovickZong‐Liang YangSheng Wang

water balanceenvironmental modellingempirical approachesplant water stressearth sciencesoil dynamicssoil modelingecohydrologywater stressenvironmental scienceecologydrought

Expanding and Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary Praxis. Frontiers in Water (2025)

Shinichiro NakamuraHeidi KreibichMelissa HaeffnerJenia MukherjeeGiuliano Di BaldassarreMaiko SakamotoMikiko SugiuraGünter BlöschlTaikan OkiMurugesu Sivapalan

Panta Rhei: A Decade of Progress in Research on Change in Hydrology and Society. Hydrological Sciences Journal (2025)

Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence as a Diagnostic Tool #160;. (2025)

Sheng YeJiyu LiYifan ChaiLin LiuMurugesu SivapalanQihua Ran

A Diagnostic Approach to Modeling Watersheds With Human Interference. Journal of Hydrology (2024)

M. GarciaB. Mohajer IravanlooM. Sivapalan

watershed managementhydrological processhuman interferenceenvironmental modellingwater resourcesbiostatisticswater resource managementenvironmental monitoringhydrologyhydrological modeling

A Parsimonious Daily Water Balance Model Based on the Proportionality Hypothesis. Journal of Hydrology (2024)

Shuyue WuJianshi ZhaoMurugesu Sivapalan

EDITORIAL: Scale Issues in Human-Water Systems. Frontiers in Water (2024)

Pieter Van OelMurugesu SivapalanGiuliano Di BaldassarreFuqiang TianShinichiro NakamuraSara Marks

scale issueswater sustainabilitywater resource managementwater technology innovationenvironmental sciencewater supply

Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security Through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi‐Arid Brazil. Water Resources Research (2024)

Antônio Alves Meira NetoPedro MedeirosJosé Carlos de AraújoBruno PereiraMurugesu Sivapalan

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