Research Highlights
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A complete list of publications classified by research subject is available [here] and on Dr Muller's [Google Scholar Profile]
A complete list of publications classified by research subject is available [here] and on Dr Muller's [Google Scholar Profile]
Land Grabs
Nature Food (in Review):
What are the consequences of transnational agricultural land deals on forest cover and biodiversity? |
Water and Armed Conflicts
PNAS
How do Violent Conflicts affect Land and Water Resources? Evidence from Syria [Brookings] [Nature Asia] [SNF Horizons] |
Transboundary Groundwater
Water Resources Research:
How did an international agreement emerge over fossil groundwater in the Arabian Desert? |
Advances in Water Resources:
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Water Resources Research (in review):
How do economic and hydro-geologic differences between countries affect their propensity to collaborate over groundwater? [Preprint] |
Transboundary Rivers
Journal of Hydrology :
How should the Ganges Water Treaty be re-designed to account for climate change? [Preprint] |
Socio-Hydrology of Climate Change
National Science Foundation Grant EAR 2142967: "CAREER: CAS-Climate: Sociohydrology to link climate change and its societal impacts"
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Our Approach
Questions that we Ask
- How are socio-environmental systems changing in data-scarce regions?
- What are the key drivers of these changes? To what extent can they be attributed to exogenous (e.g. global climate) or endogenous (poor policy) sources?
- Will there be more more conflicts in a changed climate where water resources will be more variable? What role (if any) will physical landscape processes play in that relationship?
- What does it take for cooperation to emerge over internationally shared water resources? What role does trust and information access play in that process?
- When does human (trade, migration, information) and hydrologic (rivers) connectivity enhance societal resilience to climate shocks?
- How can new information paradigms (e.g., remote sensing, modeling and social sensing) and modern data analytics be used to address critical information gaps for improved water, health and energy policy?
Methods that we develop
We combine data science, hydrologic modeling and economics to monitor, evaluate and predict rapidly changing coupled human water systems in data-scarce regions. An overview of our approaches and focus areas can be found in a recently published review paper in Water Resources Research [click here for access].
A non exhaustive sample of the methods that we developed is listed below -- please click on the keywords for example publications. A full list of publications is provided in the "Publications" tab of this website. Data analytics:
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Funded Projects
- US National Science Foundation, Dynamics Coupled Human Natural Systems grant #1824951: "What does it take to collaborate over transboundary groundwater resources?"
- US National Science Foundation, Hydrological Science (joint with Human Geography) grant # 2142967: "CAREER: CAS-Climate: Sociohydrology to link climate change and its societal impacts"
- BHP Group, Ltd: "Rights-based water governance"
Get in touch
The University of Notre Dame is located in the city of South Bend, IN, two hours by car east of Chicago.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences is located in Fitzpatrick Hall, directly northeast of the football stadium |