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Dr Alice Hill

Hydrologist

+64-3-545-7734

Qualifications:

PhD, Physical Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. MS, Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, USA.

Biography:

Alice's motivation for hydrologic research is tied to the societal implications of changes to water supplies to local and regional communities and economic sectors. That is, how might climate change and/or land use intensification affect the future water security of agricultural, hydropower, and municipal users downstream?

Alice's research uses a combination of field-based sampling of hydrochemistry and isotopes, together with remote sensing information, to understand the sources and flowpaths of water within a system. She focuses on watersheds in mountain regions, especially those with cryospheric sources (snow and ice melt) because these typically remote areas are often 1) rapidly changing in the face of climate change, 2) data scarce requiring novel approaches for data acquisition, and 3) in awe-inspiring wilderness areas that are close to her heart.

Alice's research is supported by a Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from New Zealand Government funding, administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Articles:

Hill, A. F., M. Jacquemart, A. U. Gold, and K. Tiampo (2021), Changing the culture of fieldwork in the geosciences. EOS. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO158013.

Hill, Alice F., Rittger, K., Tshering, D., Dendup, T., Painter, T. H. (2020) Meltwater’s importance to river flow in the Brahmaputra headwaters. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00081

Rittger, K., Raleigh, M.S, Dozier, J., Hill, A.F., Lutz, J.S., Painter, T. H. (2019) Canopy Adjustment and Improved Cloud Cover for Remotely Sensed Snow Cover Mapping. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024914

Armstrong, R., Rittger, K., Brodzik, M., Racoviteanu, A., Barrett, A., Khalsa, S., Raup, B., Hill, A. F., Khan, A., Rittger, K., Wilson, A. M., Kayastha,R., Fetterer, F., Armstrong., B. (2019) Runoff from glacier ice and seasonal snow in High Asia: separating melt water sources in river flow. Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1429-0

Hill, Alice F., Stallard, R. F., & Rittger, K. (2018) Clarifying regional hydrologic controls of the Marañón River, Peru through rapid assessment to inform system-wide basin planning approaches. Elem Sci Anth, 6(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.290

Hill, Alice F., Minbaeva, C. K., Wilson, A. M., & Satylkanov, R. (2017) Hydrologic Controls and Water Vulnerabilities in the Naryn River Basin, Kyrgyzstan: A Socio-Hydro Case Study of Water Stressors in Central Asia. Water, 9(5), 325. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9050325

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