Enrique Vivoni
- Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
- Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
PO Box 875306
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone:
480-965-5228
Fax:
480-965-0557
Email:
vivoni@asu.edu
Home Page:
http://vivoni.asu.edu/
Biography
Enrique Vivoni is a hydrologist who is interested in the interactions of water in the lithosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. His current research focuses on land surface ecohydrological processes in the semiarid southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, in particular during the summer monsoon season. Current field efforts include a small watershed study of ecohydrological interactions in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, a regional basin study of the hydroclimatological impact of vegetation greening in the Rio Sonora in Mexico, and the study of the short and long-term effects of vegetation changes on the hydrological response in basins of northern New Mexico. In these studies, field observations and remote sensing data are used in conjunction with a distributed model to explore the underlying hydrological mechanisms and provide relevant predictions at the watershed scale. This research involves data analyses of observations, numerical modeling using parallel computing, and synthesis activities to test relevant hypotheses.
Expertise
atmospheric processes; geological processes; modeling and simulation; watershed hydrology; informatics; land use change; water resource management; urbanization effects on weather and climate; terrestrial ecology; remote sensing; microclimate; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; ecosystem ecology; geographic information science; landscape studies; desertification; deforestation; data analysis; cross-border cooperation; climate change impacts; biophysics; algorithm development; ecohydrology; hydrometeorology; hydrology
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Journal Articles
Chow, W. T., T. J. Volo, E. R. Vivoni, G. D. Jenerette and B. L. Ruddell. In review. Seasonal dynamics of a suburban energy balance in Phoenix, Arizona. International Journal of Climatology.
Moreno, H. A., E. R. Vivoni and D. J. Gochis. In press. Limits to flood forcasting in the Colorado Front Range for two summer convection periods using radar nowcasting and a distributed hydrological model convection using radar nowcasting and a distributed hydrologic model. Journal of Hydrometeorology.
Posters/Presentations
Childers, D. L., S. Earl, N. B. Grimm, B. Ruddell, L. Turnbull and E. Vivoni. 2011. The dynamics of water in arid cities, Part I: Overview of the Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER research at the water-climate nexus. Presentation at th 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.
Chow, W. T., T. J. Volo, E. R. Vivoni, G. D. Jenerette and B. L. Ruddell. 2012. Observations of the urban land surface energy balance in a Phoenix, AZ, residential suburb. Poster presented at the 3-7 December 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Hawkins, G. A. and E. R. Vivoni. 2012. Distributed hydrologic modeling of semiarid basins in Arizona: A platform for climate change assessments. Poster presented on April 25, 2012 at the Decision Center for a Desert City Annual Poster Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Hawkins, G. A. and E. R. Vivoni. 2011. Distributed hydrological modeling of semiarid basins in Arizona: A platform for land cover and climate change assessment. Poster presented December 8, 2011 at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Hawkins, G. and E. R. Vivoni. 2012. Distributed hydrologic modeling of semiarid basins in Arizona: A platform for land cover and climate change assessments. Poster presented February 19, 2012 at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 16-20, 2012.
Hawkins, G. A. and E. R. Vivoni. 2011. Water resource assessment in the Salt and Verde River basins utilizing a distributed hydrologic model and climate forecasting scenarios. Poster presented March 10, 2011 at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment graduate student research symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Hawkins, G. A., E. R. Vivoni, T. H. Mahmood and H. A. Moreno. 2011. Distributed hydrological modeling of the Beaver Creek watershed: A platform for land cover and climate change assessment. Poster presented September 19-20 at the Arizona Hydrological Society 24th Annual Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ.
Learned, J., D. Nakase, E. Vivoni and S. J. Hall. 2013. Experimentally validated mathematical modeling reveals the influence of surface rock cover on soil water availability in a semi-arid ecosystem. Poster presented at the 11 January 2013, 15th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting 2013, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link)
Moreno, H., E. Vivoni and D. Gochis. 2012. Exploring the limits of flood forecasting in mountain basins by using QPE and QPF Products in a physically-based, distributed hydrologic model during summer convection. Poster presented December 6, 2012 at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, December 3-7, 2012, San Francisco, CA.
Ruddell, B. L., G. D. Jenerette, M. Moustaoui, E. R. Vivoni, W. T. Chow, S. Shaffer, T. J. Volo, C. A. Martin, A. Mahalov and S. L. Harlan. 2012. Modeling the urban climate at the human scale in hot/dry regions. Poster presented at the 3-7 December 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Turnbull, L., D. L. Childers, R. Hale, E. Vivoni, S. Earl and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Ecosystem structure and hydrologic function of urban deserts. Poster presented at the 12-13 January 2011 CAP LTER 13th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link)
Volo, T. J., E. R. Vivoni, C. A. Martin and S. Earl. 2012. Modeling soil moisture and plant stress under irrigated conditions in semiarid urban areas. Poster presented at 13 January 2012 CAP LTER 14th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link)
Volo, T. J., E. R. Vivoni, C. A. Martin and S. Earl. 2012. Modeling soil moisture and plant stress under irrigated conditions in semiarid urban areas. Poster presented at XIX Computational Methods in Water Resources, Urbana, IL.
Volo, T. J., E. R. Vivoni, C. A. Martin, Z. Wang and B. Ruddell. 2012. A comparison of one-dimensional soil moisture models under urban irrigation in a desert city. Presentation at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.