Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan is an Australian-American
engineer and
hydrologist of
Sri Lankan Tamil origin and a world leader in the area of
catchment hydrology. He is currently the [https://cee.illinois.edu/about/history/history-excellence/chester-p-siess Chester and Helen Siess Endowed Professor] of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and professor of Geography & Geographic Information Science, at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sivapalan is widely recognized for his fundamental research on scale issues in
hydrological modeling, his leadership of global initiatives aimed at hydrologic predictions in ungauged basins, and for his role in launching the new sub-field of
socio-hydrology.
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