The Distinguished Dawdy Lecture in Hydrologic Sciences is presented annually. It recognizes lifetime contributions of a senior scientist to the science of hydrology or cooperation in hydrologic research. The award is named to honor the life and work of hydrologist David Dawdy.
The Dawdy Lecture is a part of the Earth & Climate Sciences Distinguished Speaker Series, established in 2009 to commemorate the life and legacy of David Dawdy. Each year, an invited speaker joins past distinguished Dawdy Lecturers as Tom Dunne, Jay Lund, Vijay Gupta, Susan Hubbard, Sally Thompson, and others. This lecture series and travel for speakers is generously supported by Doris and David Dawdy (former USGS Watershed Hydrologist/Geomorphologist).
Past Dawdy Lectures
October 14, 2008
California's changing hydrologic landscape: dealing with uncertain climate change impacts
Ed Maurer
Santa Clara University, Civil Engineering Department
September 15, 2009
Toward X-Ray Vision: Geophysical Signatures of the Complex Shallow Subsurface
Susan Hubbard
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
***Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecture***
September 28, 2010
California Climate Projections and Uncertainties at Regional and Local Scales
Norman Miller
Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Science Division
March 8, 2011
Modified Parker Model for Bedload Transport.
Wen Wang
Multech Engineering Consultants, Inc.
November 15, 2011
The evolution of floodplain complexity
Tom Dunne
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara
April 17, 2012
Flood Prediction in a Changing Climate: State of the Science and Future Challenges
Vijay Gupta
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
November 27, 2012
California’s Water Challenges and Future
Jay Lund
Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis
April 2, 2013
California’s Water Challenges and Future
Jay Lund, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis
November 5, 2013
Gradients of Geomorphic Response of the Muddy River Drainage to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980-2000
Tom Lisle
Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist, Stillwater Sciences
April 8, 2014
Pattern from process: simple strategies for understanding complex dynamics in aquatic landscapes
Laurel Larsen
Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
December 2, 2014
Managing for resilience in California's anadromous salmonids
Stephanie Carlson
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
April 14, 2015
Estimating Evapotranspiration from Weather Data: Derivation and Application to Trend Detection and Attribution over the U.S. since 1960
Guido Salvucci, Boston University
October 20, 2015
A, B, Careful! Consequences of scale-invariance in power-law models of streamflow recessions for interpreting hydrological data
Dr. Sally Thompson, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
October 11, 2016
Flow Resistance and Longitudinal Elevation Profiles for Rivers: Two Stories about Development Mathematical Models to Understand Observations
Scott Peckham, University of Colorado, Institute of Alpine and Arctic Research
October 24, 2017
Modeling systems for the evaluation of water management alternatives to protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems
Laura Foglia
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California Davis
March 6, 2018
Finding the soil moisture velocity equation
Fred Ogden
October 22, 2019
Nitrate export regimes in large rivers
Margaret Zimmer
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, UC Santa Cruz
November 10, 2020
Snow Albedo: How it changes and why you should care
Jeff Dozier, University of California Santa Barbara
September 27, 2021
Distinguished Dawdy Lecture in Hydrological Sciences
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming