Ryan McManamay and colleagues developed a data-driven model to determine the impact of hard urban infrastructure systems on the hydrology and biodiversity of rivers in the United States.

"So, it's allowed for a better mechanistic understanding of urban hydrology." To reach their conclusions, the researchers analyzed the hydrologic response -- the change in runoff volume and timing ...

McPhillips -- who started the research as a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University before joining the Penn State faculty to focus explicitly on urban hydrology and green infrastructure ...

“The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself ...

Trees make people happier in urban areas, according to a new study. They also make towns and cities more climate-resilient, ...

"The other side of the urban hydrologic alteration coin is that we get these really, erosive flash flows at a much higher frequency — like every time it rains, we get these torrential flows ...

"We would then have hundreds of rain gauges moving along a cityscape and that could greatly improve our ability to understand urban hydrology; it would greatly improve our ability to predict urban ...

Students had opportunities to develop command of green roof and low impact development design and construction, including soil design for bio-retention and green roof growth media, as well as ...