# Mekonnen Gebremichael

PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

5732F Boelter Hall

Email: mekonnen@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 794-4239
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##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Hydrologic remote sensing; Uncertainty analysis; Water resource management and governance; International water resource development.

##### IN THE NEWS

- UCLA professors host webinar series on water disputes in Nile River Basin | Daily Bruin, January 2022

##### EDUCATION

- Ph.D., (2004), University of Iowa
- M.S., (1999), Twente University, the Netherlands
- B.Sc., (1992), Haromaya University, Ethiopia

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- 2010: AGU Hydrological Sciences Early Career Award
- 2010-12: UConn Al-Geib Professorship
- 2009: IBM Faculty Award
- 2008-11: NASA New Investigator Award
- 2009-Present: Membership in NASA Precipitation Science Team
- 2007-2012: Membership in AGU Precipitation Committee
- 2012: Membership in IAHS Task Force to formulate a new scientific decade initiative
- 2008-Present: Membership in WMO International Precipitation Working Group
- 2008-Present: Membership in IAHS Statistical Hydrology Working Group

##### COURSES

C&EE 157L: Hydrologic Analysis C&EE 250A: Surface Water Hydrology C&EE 251C: Remote Sensing with Hydrologic Applications