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Dr Patricia Saco

Curriculum Vitae:
Contact Details:	Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering School of Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia Phone: +61 2 4921 6157 Fax: +61 2 4921 6991 Email: Patricia.Saco@newcastle.edu.au

Degrees Conferred:

PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2003.
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1997
Ingeniera, Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, 1989

Awards and Prizes:

Lorenz Straub Medal for best PhD dissertation in the world in the field of Hydraulics and Hydrology, awarded by the St Anthony Falls Hydraulics Lab., University of Minnesota, 2005.
Award for outstanding PhD thesis in the area of water resources research awarded by the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR), integrated by more than 80 top Universities in USA, June of 2004.
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Newcastle, Australia, 2004.
National Research Council Research Associateship Award from The National Academies, USA, 2001, (Position Declined).
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member, USA, 2001.
Glenn E. and Helen L. Stout Water Resources Research Award, University of Illinois, USA, 2000.
NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, USA, 1996-1999.
Research Fellowship (Beca de Iniciacion). National Council of Scienific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina, March 1992 - February 1994.
Research Fellowship (Beca de Perfeccionamiento). National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina, March 1994 - February 1996.

Research Interests:

Geomorphologic influences on hydrologic response:
Analysis of non-linear interactions and scaling relations between the hydrologic response and the geomorphologic characteristics (morphology of river networks and downslope variations of the hydraulic geometry of the individual channels) at the catchment scale.
Ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology of arid and semi-arid regions:
Interaction between landforms, soil and vegetation in water limited environments Analysis of impacts of climate change, land-use variations and human impacts.
Landform evolution: Numerical simulation of landform evolution and soil production processes and its interaction with ecohydrological processes over decadal to geological time scales.

Research Grants:

Year	Grant Type	Value	Project Title	Investigators
2004	Visitor Grant NCED	AUD4k	Research conducted at University of Minnesota, USA	P. M. Saco
2004-2006	Postdoctoral Research Fellowship UoN	AUD168k	Soil Moisture Status and Vegetation Dynamics in Large catchments (Sponsored by Professor Jetse Kalma)	P. M. Saco
1998	Travel Grant		Instituto Veneto di Sciencie, Lettere e Arti, Italy	P. M. Saco
1996-1999	Earth System Science Fellowship	USD66k	Characterizing Climatic Signatures in Hydro-Geomorphologic Response	P. M. Saco

Publications (2000-2006):

Refereed Journal Papers:

Saco P.M., G.R. Willgoose, and G.R. Hancock, Eco-Geomorphology and Vegetation Patterns in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions, submitted.
Saco P.M., G.R. Willgoose, and G.R. Hancock, Spatial organization of soil depths using a landform evolution model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, in press.
White A., P. Kumar, P.M. Saco, B. Yen, and B. Rhoads, Geomorphologic and Hydrodynamic Dispersion: Scale Effects in the Illinois River Basin, Journal of Hydrology, 288, 237-257, 2004.
Saco P.M., and P. Kumar, Hillslope Kinematic Dispersion, Water Resources Research, Vol. 40(1), W01301, doi:10.1029/2003WR002024, 2004.
White A., P. Kumar, P. M. Saco, B. Rhoads and B. Yen. Changes in Hydrologic Response Due to Stream Network Extension Via Land Drainage Activities, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 39(6), 1547-1960, 2003.
Saco P. M., and P. Kumar, Kinematic Dispersion in Stream Networks, Part 1: Coupling Hydraulic and Network Geometry, Water Resources Res., 38(11), 1244, doi:10.1029/2001WR000695, 2002.
Saco P.M., and P. Kumar, Kinematic Dispersion in Stream Networks, Part 2: Scale Issues and Self-Similar Network Organization, Water Resources Res., 38(11), 1245, doi:10.1029/ 2001WR000694, 2002.
Saco P.M., and P. Kumar, Coherent Modes in Multiscale Variability of Streamflow Over the United States, Water Resources Res., 36(4), 1049-1067, 2000.

Conference Abstracts:

Saco P.M., G.R. Willgoose, and G.R. Hancock, Interactions between Vegetation and Land Surface Evolution in Arid and Semiarid Systems, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract HSIC-1146, Dec. 2004.
Saco P.M., G.R. Willgoose, and G.R. Hancock, Understanding Ecohydrologic-Geomorphology Interactions in Arid and Semiarid Systems, First Symposium for the Earth System Scholars Network, University of Maryland and NASA, September 2004.
G. Willgoose, P Saco, and G. Hancock, Modelling soil properties with a landform evolution model, Joint International Geomorphology Conference, in Geomorphology and Sustainability, Glasgow, England, August 17-20, 2004.
Hemakumara, H.M., C. Ruediger, B. Jacobs, J. D. Kalma, J. Walker, G.Willgoose, G. Hancock, and P. Saco, Scaling and Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Streamflow (SASMAS): project overview and preliminary results, European Geosciences Union, 1st General Assembly, Nice, France, 25-30, April 2004.
Saco P., G. Willgoose, and G. Hancock, Spatial organization of soil depths using a landform evolution model, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, S. Francisco, Dec. 2003.
Saco P., J. Singh, V. Knapp, M. Demissie, and Y. Lian, Hydrologic modeling of the Spoon River Basin using BASINS-HSPF, Illinois Water Conference, Nov. 2002.
Saco P., and P. Kumar, Coupling Stream Network Organization and Hydraulic Geometry, EOS Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl. pg. F584, Dec. 2001.
Kumar P., and P. Saco, Coupling self-similar stream network topology and flow dynamics, 26th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, March 2001. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 3, pg. 2943, 2001.
Saco P., and P. Kumar, Spatial Celerity Variations as a Dispersion Mechanism in Hydrologic Response, EOS Trans. AGU, 81(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., pg. F553, Dec. 2000.
White A., P. Saco, P. Kumar, B. Yen, and B. Rhoads, Relative Scales of Hydrodynamic and geomorphologic Influence on the Hydrologic Response in the Illinois River Basin, EOS Trans. AGU, 81(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., pg. F553, Dec. 2000.