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Dr. Casey Brown

Assistant Professor

College of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
12B Marston Hall
130 Natural Resources Road
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
E-Mail: cbrown@ecs.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 577-2337
Fax: (413) 545-2202

 
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Research Interests

  • Hydroclimatologic variability and change
  • Climate risk management in infrastructure systems
  • Water, climate and economic development
  • Sustainable water resources planning and management

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004.
M.S., University of Massachusetts, 1994.
B.S., University of Notre Dame, 1993.

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008-present
  • Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, IRI, Columbia University, 2008-present
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2007-2008
  • Associate Research Scientist, IRI for Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2006-2008

Classes Taught

Hydrology
Water Resources Engineering

Recent Papers Published

Brown, C. and M. Carriquiry, “Managing hydroclimatic risk with option contracts and reservoir index insurance,” Water Resources Research, 2007WR006093 (accepted)

Westra, S., Brown, C., Sharma, A., and U. Lall, "Modeling multivariable hydrological series: Principal Component Analysis or Independent Component Analysis?" Water Resources Research, 2006WR005617 (accepted)

Brown, C. and U. Lall. (2006) “Water and Economic Development: The Role of Variability and a Framework for Resilience,” Natural Resources Forum 30: 4, 306 – 317. doi:10.1111/j.1477-
8947.2006.00118.x

Xu, K., C. Brown, H-H. Kwon, U. Lall, J. Zhang, S. Hayashi and Z. Chen. (2006) “Climate Teleconnections to Yangtze River seasonal streamflow at the Three Gorges Dam, China,” International Journal of Climatology DOI: 10.1002/joc.1439.

Brown, C. and P. Rogers. (2006) “Effect of Forecast-based Pricing on Irrigated Agriculture: A
Simulation,” ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 122, 6, pp. 403-413.
Best Policy Oriented Paper Award, ASCE JWRPM 2006

*Brown, C. (2006) “Designing an Index of Vulnerability to Climate Variability” Proceedings of Global Water Hotspots: Water-related social vulnerabilities and resilience-building, 23-26 July, Hohenkammer, Germany.
*Best Policy Oriented Paper Award, ASCE, 2006

Brown, C., and P. Rogers. (2006) “Demand Management of Groundwater with Monsoon Forecasting,” Agricultural Systems 90, 293 - 311.

Recent Research Contracts Funded

Earth Institute Cross Cutting Initiative, “Water, Poverty and Growth in Africa,” $27,000, 2007-2008.

NOAA, Sector Applications Research Program, “Urban Water Supply and Flood Control in the
Delaware River Basin,” $297,000 (co-PI), 2007-2009.

World Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership, “Design of a Water Vulnerability Index,” $99,000, 2007.

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, “Coming Down the Mountain: Climate Change and Water Resources in the Andes,” $50,000, 2007-2009.

PECASE, “Improving Economic Development through Prediction and Management of HydroClimate Variability,” 2006.

Harvard Program on Water and Health Research Grant, “Groundwater Management in Tamil, Nadu, India,” $5,000, 2004.

Recent Honors and Awards

  • Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, 2006.
  • Best Policy Oriented Paper Award, ASCE J. of Water Res. Plan. & Man., 2006.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001 – 2004.

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