PROF. BELIZE LANE

I am an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Utah State University and a researcher at the Utah Water Research Laboratory.

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I am a watershed hydrologist with the aim of understanding rivers, their biota, and humans as an integrated system to support more efficient allocation of scarce freshwater resources under increasing stressors.

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My research spans the interface of data science and physical process thinking to build a scalable framework of hydrologic knowledge. The WET lab performs applied, interdisciplinary investigations using a combination of field measurement and modeling. We seek to understand the relationship between landscape and channel context and hydrologic behavior across multiple scales and disturbances (e.g.  dams, wildfires, climate change). I also lead several efforts to integrate emerging research and develop dynamic web-based tools to guide coordinated, stakeholder-engaged regional environmental water management in the western U.S. 

LATEST NEWS

The WETlab welcomes new grad students Haley Canham & Daniel Thurber!

Check out the 5 papers our lab  published in 2020!