cabral
hydrologyfutures.comDr. Costa-Cabral is the
founder and
Chief Researcher of Hydrology Futures. Under her vision and
expertise,
Hydrology Futures is positioned to become a leading company in the
hydrologic
impacts of global change. Prior to founding Hydrology Futures,
Costa-Cabral
was a tenured scientist at the GKSS
Research Center
in Germany, where she developed and applied atmospheric transport
models
over the European domain, and co-developed a model of sediment
transport for the Elbe
River basin. She also worked at the University
of Washington, Seattle, where she applied state-of-the-art
hydrologic models developed by the
Land Surface
Hydrology Research Group
to Southeast Asia's
largest river basin - the Mekong.
After founding Hydrology Futures, she
evaluated the impacts of projected climate change, land cover and use
change, and
streamflow regulation, on the seasonal streamflows of the Mekong, in
co-operation with University of Washington researchers.
She is currently
researching impacts of
future climate change on the snowpack of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and
resulting effects on water resources for the city of Los Angeles, for
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (see
project).
Costa-Cabral holds a
PhD in Hydrology from the University of Washington, a Master of Science
in Hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a
Master of
Arts in Energy and Environment from Boston University. Her PhD Thesis
received the
1997 international Lorenz G. Straub Award for best thesis in Water
Resources. She was Associate Editor of
Geomorphology
in
1999-2005; and is a member of AGU, ASCE, AWRA, and Portugal's WRA.
.
The activities of O.A.Sys include the application and advancement of coupled ice-ocean models, terrestrial modeling, data assimilation, statistical reconstruction of atmospheric forcing data and the development of dynamic access tools for data retrieval. O.A.Sys has performed work for a variety of German and international institutions, e.g. the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Commission, and the German Foreign Ministry of Education and Research. O.A.Sys works in cooperation with Hydrology Futures on appropriate projects.