College of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 35205
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-35205
E-Mail: rees@ecs.umass.edu
Office Phone: (413) 577-2337
FAX: (413) 545-2202

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Resume:
Resume

Education:

• Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. November 1997.
• M.A., Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 1994.
• B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City Iowa, May 1992.

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, September 1999 - present.
• Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1997 - 1999.
• Research Assistant, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1992 - 1997.
• Teaching Assistant, Fall 1994, Princeton University, New Jersey.
• Teaching Assistant, Spring 1992, University of Iowa, Iowa STORM-FEST Co-coordinator and Participant, Winter 1992, University of Iowa, Iowa.
• Research Experience for Undergraduates, 1989 to 1992, University of Iowa, Iowa.
• Pre-Teaching Co-op Intern, Spring 1990, University of Iowa, Iowa.
• Summer 1990, University of Iowa, Iowa.
• Hawaiian Rainband Project,

Honors:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1992-1994, 1995-1996.
• Higgins Scholar Prize, Princeton University, Fall 1992.
• National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1989-1992
Travel Grant from National Science.Foundation to participate in HARP, 1990 Alexander Scholarship 1990-1991.
• Stebler Scholarship, 1989-90.
• Hapke Scholarship, 1988-89.
• Honors in Civil and Environmental Engineering (scholarship), 1988-89.
• University of Iowa. Freshman Engineering Honors Scholarship, 1988-89.
Phi Eta Sigma (National Honors Society for College Freshman). Initiate, Fall 1990 Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honors Society) Initiate, Fall 1990 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors Society) Initiate, Spring 1989.

Publications:

Sturdevant Rees, P. L., Smith, J. A., Egorova, J., and M. L. Baeck, Flood hydrology of the central Appalachians: Hurricane Fran, September 6-7, 1996, submitted to Water Resources Research December 1999.

Smith, J. A., Baeck, M. L., Egorova, J., and P. L. Sturdevant Rees, Catastrophic rainfall and flooding in Texas, accepted to Journal of Hydrometeorology, January 1999.

Holman-Dodds, J. K., Bradley, A. A., and P. L. Sturdevant Rees, 1999. Effect of temporal sampling of precipitation on hydrologic model calibration. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104(D16), 19645-19654.

Sturdevant, P. L. and J. A. Smith, The time scales of sediment movement through Goodwin Creek, Mississippi, to be submitted to Water Resources Research March 2000.

Sturdevant Rees, P. L., Baeck, M. L., and J. A. Smith, Response of the Chicago metropolitan area to extreme rainfall: July 1996, in preparation.

Sturdevant Rees, P. L., Smith, J. A. and M. L. Baeck, Hydrology and hydrometeorology of extreme floods in urban environments, in preparation.

Sturdevant Rees, P. L. and J. A. Smith, Numerical simulations of sediment transport in Goodwin Creek, Mississippi, in preparation.

Sturdevant Rees, P. L. and J. A. Smith, Transport of suspended sediment and nutrients by large floods, in preparation.

Baeck, M. L., Smith, J. A. and P. L. Sturdevant Rees, Hydrology, hydraulics and hydrometeorology of extreme floods in the Charlotte NC metropolitan area, in preparation.

Bates, P. D., Sturdevant Rees, P. L., Baeck, M. L. and J. A. Smith, Hydraulic modeling of large floods, in preparation.

Sturdevant, P. L., and K. P. Georgakakos, 1991. Spatial measurement and statistics of storm rainfall, Second Year Report to the National Science Foundation on the Award for Research Experience for Undergraduates, Award No. CES-8657526, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.

Sturdevant, P. L., Chambers, V. A., and K.P. Georgakakos, June 1990. Measurement and analysis of fine-increment storm rainfall, First Year Report to the National Science Foundation on the Award for Research Experience for Undergraduates, Award No. CES-8657526, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.

Georgakakos, K. P., Sharifi, M. B., and P. L. Sturdevant, 1995. Analysis of fine-increment point rainfall, in: New Uncertainty Concepts in Hydrology and Water Resources, ed. Z.W. Kundzewicz, Cambridge University Press, New York, 18 pages. (Refereed publication.)

Georgakakos, K. P., Carsteanu, A. A., Sturdevant, P. L., and J. A. Cramer, 1994. Observation and analysis of Midwestern rainrates, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 33, No. 12, 1433-1444.

Georgakakos, K. P., Sharifi, M. B., and P. L. Sturdevant, 1990. Analyses of fine-increment point rainfall, Preprints, Eighth Conference on Hydrometeorology, Kananaskis Park, Canada, American Meteorological Society, 99-102.

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1995. A Cross-County Evaluation of Recycling Efforts in New Jersey: Final Report, Spring 1995, Methods in Science, Technology and Public Policy.

Contributions to Conferences:

Sturdevant Rees, P. L., Smith, J. A., and M. L. Baeck, Hydrology and hydrometeorology of extreme floods in urban environments. Paper to be presented at the 1999 American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting in Boston, MA.

Sturdevant Rees, P. L., J. A. Smith, J. B. Egorova, and M. L. Baeck, 1998, Extreme flood response in the Potomac River basin for Hurricane Fran, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. Abstract of poster presented at the 1998 Spring Meeting, Boston, MA.

Sturdevant, P. L. and J. A. Smith, 1997, Sediment transport at Goodwin Creek, Mississippi and implications to water quality, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. Abstract of poster presented at the 1997 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Sturdevant, P. L., Smith, J. A., and A. J. Miller, 1996, Analyses of the sediment transport regime at Goodwin Creek, Mississippi, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 77, n. 46, p. 252. Abstract of poster presented at the 1996 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Sturdevant, P. L., Smith, J. A., and A. J. Miller, 1995, Numerical simulations of open channel flow and sediment transport processes at Goodwin Creek, Mississippi, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 76, n. 46, p. 268. Abstract of poster presented at the 1995 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Sturdevant, P. L., Smith, J. A., and A. J. Miller, 1994, Sediment transport and transformations by large floods in the South Branch Potomac River, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 75, n. 44, p. 233. Abstract of poster presented at the 1994 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Sturdevant, P. L., Smith, J. A., and R. D. DeVeaux, 1994, Sediment and nutrient transport by large floods in the Potomac River Basin, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 75, n. 16, p. 165. Abstract of talk presented at the 1994 Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Georgakakos, K. P., Sharifi, M. B., and P. L. Sturdevant, 22-24 October 1990, Analysis of fine increment point rainfall, Eighth Conference on Hydrometeorology, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.

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