Bryant Reyes, a Ph.D. student advised by Professor Terri Hogue, is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Bryant's proposed research seeks to better understand the current and future fate of imported water in semi-arid metropolises, such as Los Angeles.  To accomplish this, a fully-coupled and distributed surface/subsurface flow model will be applied to the Los Angeles Basin with unique development of an anthropogenic module to account for irrigated and highly altered landscapes. The knowledge gained through development and application of the model will improve both our understanding and prediction of urban runoff and groundwater recharge dynamics.