University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Arid Lands Hydrology
Welcome to the Arid Lands Hydrology group!
Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Recent News
- New Group Member: Milena Rosa de Sousa
PhD Student Milena Rosa de Sousa is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology Group. Welcome! - New Group Member: Amir Hanache
MS Student Amir Hanache is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology Group. Welcome! - New WRR Publication
Postdoc Marcus Nobrega Gomes Jr. published our work on “Identifying the State Dependence of Effective Material Properties in a Simplified Hydrologic Hillslope Model” in Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR041468 - GeoSymposium Coordinator
Ivet Escamilla served as the coordinator for the UNLV GeoSymposium 2026. The three-day event, which included student oral and poster presentations, keynote presentations, a career panel, and a field trip, had nearly 200 attendees and brought together students, industry professionals, government officials, academic experts, and members of the community. GeoSymposium is entirely organized by students… Read more: GeoSymposium Coordinator - Best Oral Presentation Award
Eunice Ledres received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 21st Annual GeoSymposium at UNLV. Congratulations! - Poster Presentation at GeoSymposium
Undergraduate student Lillian Cartino presented the results of her independent study research project on the “Comparison of Actual and Potential Evaporation at the SEPHAS Lysimeters” at this years GeoSymposium. Well done! - MS Thesis Defense
Congratulations to Eunice Ledres for successfully defending her Master Thesis on “Harnessing Backcasting to Identify Drivers of Critical Warming at Hoover Dam Using Hydrodynamic and Machine Learning Models”! - Presentations and Awards
Ivet Escamilla presented her research at the UNLV Interdisciplinary Research Symposium and at the Nevada Water Resources Association (NWRA) Annual Conference. Eunice Ledres presented her results at the NWRA conference, where she also won the Graduate Student Poster Award. Congratulations! - New Group member: Haritha Ramalingam
Undergraduate student Haritha Ramalingam is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology group for a research project over the spring semester. Welcome! - Arid Lands Hydrology Group at AGU
MS students Ivet Escamilla and Eunice Ledres presented their research at AGU 2025 in New Orleans. - MS Student Position in Geoscience
We invite applications for a MS Student position in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The graduate students will participate in a collaboration with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) utilizing the SEPHAS Lysimeters in a project on “Upscaling heterogeneous evaporation fluxes in arid lands”. The project: The graduate student… Read more: MS Student Position in Geoscience
