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Rich M. Vogel
Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Tufts University
Richard M. Vogel, now Professor Emeritus has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University since 1984. His research applies statistical, and systems approaches to problems in hydrology, water resources engineering and natural hazards. He is Fellow of AGU, a distinguished member of ASCE and received Walter Langbein Lecture Award from AGU and several ASCE awards including Walter L. Huber Research Prize, Julian Hinds Award and Ven Te Chow award
Professional Experience
Tufts University
Professor Emeritus and Research Professor
2017 - Present
Tufts University
Professor
1984 - 2017
Education
Cornell University
Doctorate
1984
University of Virginia
Masters
1979
University of Virginia
Bachelors
1977
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Honors & Awards
Walter Langbein Lecture
Received December 2023
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Union Fellow
Received December 2017
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For development of hydrologic science and statistical methods in service to society and water resources and natural hazard management.
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Publications
Regionalization of Climate Elasticity Preserves Dooge's Complementary Relationship
Climate elasticity of streamflow represents a nondimensional measure of the sensitivity of streamflow to climatic factors. Estimation of such elast...
October 09, 2024
Stochastic Watershed Model Ensembles for Long‐Range Planning...
February 06, 2023
The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Model...
September 20, 2021
Improved Estimators of Model Performance Efficiency for Skew...
September 20, 2020
Runoff and Evapotranspiration Elasticities in the Western Un...
August 09, 2020
AGU Abstracts
When Heavy Tails Disrupt Hydrologic Modeling
WALTER B. LANGBEIN LECTURE
hydrology | 12 december 2023
Richard M. Vogel
Heavy tails (HT) appear in a myriad of hydrologic applications and their presence can disrupt hydrologic modeling as well as common statistical and ma...
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Independent, identically distributed residual errors of watershed models enable uncertainty evaluation and risk-based management
ADVANCING HYDROLOGICAL MODELING AND PREDICTION USING LARGE-DOMAIN METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL DATA SETS AND MODELS II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2022
William H. Farmer, Richard M. Vogel
Because of the inherent spatial and temporal heterogeneity of climatological, meteorological, and hydrological conditions, large-domain hydrological d...
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The abuse of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling
DIAGNOSTICS, SENSITIVITY, AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS I ORAL
hydrology | 17 december 2021
Martyn P. Clark, Richard M. Vogel, Jonathan Lamont...
This presentation will critically evaluate the use of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling. We focus on the Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (N...
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Volunteer Experience
2019 - 2020
Chair
Hydrology Langbein Lecture Committee
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