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Richard M. Vogel
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Background
Professor Vogel is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and has
been at Tufts since 1984. His primary expertise is in the areas of hydrology and
water resource engineering with emphasis on hydrologic and statistical methods
for analyzing water resource systems. His current research program focuses upon
the areas of natural hazards, watershed modeling and management, water quality,
regional hydrology, environmental statistics and the new field of
hydromorphology. Hydromorphology deals with improving our understanding of how
hydrologic systems have evolved due to anthropogenic influences including
climate change, water infrastructure and urbanization. His scholarship has
applied innovations in extreme events from the field of hydrology to:
earthquakes, bird and plant extinctions, precipitation, landslides, wind speeds,
and numerous other natural phenomena. His consulting experiences range from:
world water resources assessment, reservoir systems analysis for several major
metropolitan areas and regions, flood and drought management, dam safety
analyses, and a wide range of applications of statistics to hydrologic, water
quality, natural hazards and other problems.
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Education
1985 Ph.D. Water Resource Systems, Cornell University
1979 M.S. Environmental Science and Hydrology, University of Virginia
1977 B.S. Engineering Science and Systems, University Of Virginia
Recent Courses
- CEE-112 Hydrology And Water Resource Engineering
- CEE-202 Environmental Statistics
- CEE-214 Environmental and Water Resource Systems Engineering
Professional Employment
| 2009 - 2012 |
Director of Tufts Graduate Program in
Water: Systems,
Science and Society. |
| 2009 - 2012 |
Director of
Water Area, Tufts
Institute of the Environment. |
| 1984 - to date |
Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Tufts University. |
| Sept. '94 - Jan. '95 |
Visiting Associate Professor, Division
of Applied Environmental Science, Harvard University. |
| Sept. '91 - Aug. '92 |
Visiting Fellow, Department of Civil
and Agricultural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia
|
| 1981-1984 |
Graduate Research and Teaching
Assistant, Cornell University. |
| 1980-1981 |
Department Head, Hydrology,
Dufresne-Henry Inc., No. Springfield, VT. Project responsibilities
included hydropower feasibility analysis, reservoir safe yield
studies, floodplain delineations, stormwater control structure
design, soil erosion control plans, pond design, dam safety
analysis, and ice jam research. |
| 1979-1980 |
Hydrologist, Dufresne-Henry Inc.,
Responsible for hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for floodplain
delineations. |
| 1978-1979 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of
Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. |
| 1977-1978 |
Research Assistant, Department of
Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. |
| 1976 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of
Engineering Science and Systems, University of Virginia. |
| 1975 |
Research Assistant, Lake of Tunis
Eutrophication Project, Tunisia, North Africa. Department of
Engineering Science and Systems, University of Virginia. |
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