Ricardo González-Pinzón

Ricardo González-Pinzón, Ph.D.

Professor of Water Resources Engineering · University of New Mexico

Leading the EcoHydrology and HydroSystems Lab — investigating mass and energy fluxes in watersheds through hydrology, hydroinformatics, aquatic ecology, and computational modeling.

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EcoHydrology & HydroSystems Lab

Our team does research on mass and energy fluxes in watersheds. Our interdisciplinary research involves hydrology, hydroinformatics, environmental engineering, aquatic ecology, aquatic chemistry, and mathematical and computational modeling.

Our research, teaching and outreach activities are focused on the functioning and resilience of water resources systems in the American Southwest and beyond.

Contact

📍 University of New Mexico
Dept. of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Research, Teaching & Outreach

Research Approaches

Our lab couples experimental observations with mathematical, numerical and uncertainty modeling to investigate hydrological and biogeochemical processes in watersheds.

Semi-continuous sensors to understand biogeochemical (carbon and nutrient) processes at multiple temporal scales
Geophysical and stream ecology methods for solute transport, metabolism and nutrient dynamics
Hydrologic modeling of rainfall-runoff processes and carbon/nutrient mobilization
Mathematical models for transport and biogeochemical processes under uncertainty analyses
Smart tracers (resazurin) and sensors to couple solute transport and biological reactivity
Scaling techniques to predict and generalize hydrological processes

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