Murugesu Sivapalan
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
United States of America
Biography
Murugesu Sivapalan holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering (University of Ceylon 1975), M.Eng in Water Resources Engineering (Asian Institute of Technology Thailand 1977), and M.A. (1983) and Ph.D (1986) in Civil Engineering, with a major in hydrology, from Princeton University.
Research Interest
Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Publications
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Thompson, S. E., M. Sivapalan, C. J. Harman, V. Srinivasan, M. Hipsey, P. Reed, A. Montanari and G. Blöschl (2013). Understanding and predicting changing water systems: Use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Volume 17, pp. 5013–5039, doi:10.5194/hess-17-5013-2013
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Sivapalan, M. and G. Blöschl (2015). Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water. Water Resources Research (50th Anniversary Special Issue.), Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 6988–7022 doi:10.1002/2015WR017896
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Elshafei, Y., M. Tonts, M. Sivapalan and M. R. Hipsey (2016). Sensitivity of emergent socio-hydrologic dynamics to internal system properties and external socio-political factors: Implications for water management. Water Resources Research, Vol. 52, 4944–4966, doi:10.1002/2015WR017944.
