Belize Lane is an Associate Professor and Water Program Head in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University, and a researcher at the Utah Water Research Laboratory. Belize's research spans the areas of disturbance hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and water management including: flooding, debris flows, post-fire hydrology, ecohydraulics, river restoration and design, and environmental flows. Her research group performs applied interdisciplinary research using a combination of field studies, machine learning, numerical modeling, geospatial and time series analysis. Recent research sponsors include National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization's (NOAA) Office of Water Prediction, the U.S. Army Corps Environmental Research and Development Center (ERDC), CalFIRE, Colorado Department of Transportation, and the California Water Board. She received the Early Career Award for Applied Research  from the Universities Council on Water Resources in 2022 and the USU Researcher of the Year award in 2026. She received a MSc in Water Resources Management in 2014 and a PhD in Hydrologic Sciences in 2017 from the University of California, Davis. When not studying rivers, Belize can be found skiing, rafting, and biking through the water cycle with her husband, daughter and dog.