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sity’s Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information
Center.
In 1995 he was named district engineer for the Left Hand
Water District of Longmont, Colo., a municipal agency focused
upon provision of water supply to a portion of Boulder County,
Colorado. After two years he returned as a teaching assistant
in UC’s CE department. A year later he was named a USEPAsponsored
graduate research assistant in the civil, environmental,
and architectural engineering department at UC.
In 2000 he returned to Georgia to become a senior water
resource engineer at LAW Engineering, Kennesaw, Ga. Since
2005 he has worked at Brown and Caldwell of Atlanta as its
Atlanta area practice leader for water resources.
His research interests are in the integration of water conservation/irrigation
and stormwater quality management in
support of: low impact development; performance assessment
and detailed process modeling in support of design of best
management practices (BMPs) for mitigation of stormwater
impacts; and integrated modeling with GIS for water resources
management, and optimization applied to BMP selection and
design.
Since 2005 Durelle Scott has been an
assistant professor of geosciences at the
University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He has
concentrated on aquatic biogeochemistry,
surface water – groundwater interactions,
river network modeling, and aqueous geochemistry.
His goal is to improve the water quality
of inland and coastal waters, and to provide
an understanding of how external anthropogenic
and climatic forcings alter water re-
Scott
sources. His group at the University of Nebraska examined the
fate and transport of solutes within lotic systems over a range
of temporal and spatial scales. The work focuses on areas of
high hydrologic retention and sharp redox gradients where high
biogeochemical transformations occur, from riverine floodplains
in Louisiana (USGS funding) to hyporheic zones within
streams (NSF funding).
Other projects currently underway include: examining the
effects of invasive species on water quality and quantity (NE
funding); DON and DOC evolution through watersheds (NSF
funding); and the impacts of melting glaciers on the delivery of
water and nutrients to the Gulf of Alaska.
Prior to his academic position, he spent from 2003 until
2005 on a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
at the U.S. Geological Survey located at Reston, Va. From
2001 until 2003 he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Landcare
Research of Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Scott received all three of his degrees from the University
of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his bachelor’s in civil, environmental,
and architectural engineering in 1996, his master’s
in environmental and water resources engineering in 1997, and
his doctorate in environmental engineering in 2001.
He is a member of the American Water Resources Association
and the American Geophysical Union.
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