Valeriy Ivanov, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2006
• M.S., MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2002
• Diploma, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1996

• Ziff Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Environment, Harvard University, (2006).
• Russian Government Graduate Scholarship Award, Moscow State University (1997).
• Vernadskiy Undergraduate Scholarship Award, Moscow State University (1996).

Land surface hydrology and ecohydrology; spatial aspects of the catchment hydrological response; operational hydrology and flood-forecasting; hydrosphere-biosphere interactions and carbon cycle; land-surface and atmosphere; data assimilation.

Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L., and Vivoni, E.R. (2008). Vegetation-Hydrology Dynamics in Complex Terrain of Semiarid Areas: I. A mechanistic Approach to Modeling Dynamic Feedbacks, Water Resour. Res., 44, W03429, doi:10.1029/2006WR005588.

Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L., and Vivoni, E.R. (2008). Vegetation-Hydrology Dynamics in Complex Terrain of Semiarid Areas: II. Energy-Water Controls of Vegetation Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Topographic Niches of Favorability, Water Resour. Res., 44, W03430, doi:10.1029/2006WR005595.

Ivanov, V.Y., R.L. Bras, and D.C. Curtis (2007), "A Weather Generator for Hydrological, Ecological, and Agricultural Applications," Water Resources Research, 43, W10406, doi: 10.1029/ 2006WR005364.

Flores, A. N., V. Y. Ivanov, D. Entekhabi, and R. L. Bras (2009). Impact of hillslope-scale organization of topography, soil moisture, soil temperature and vegetation on modeling surface microwave radiation emission, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 47(8), 2557-2571.

Ivanov, V.Y., Vivoni, E.R., Bras, R.L., Entekhabi, D., (2004), "Catchment Hydrologic Response with a Fully-Distributed Triangulated Irregular Network Model," Water Resour. Res., 40(11), W11102, doi:10.1029/2004WR003218.