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Daniel Wright

Daniel Wright

Arno Lenz Memorial Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering
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Department

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Contact

1269C, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
p: (608) 262-1978

  • PhD 2013, Princeton University
  • BS 2005, University of Michigan
  • MS 2005, University of Michigan

  • Satellite and ground-based rainfall remote sensing
  • Rainfall and flood processes at urban and regional scales
  • Computationally-intensive simulation for probabilistic natural hazards risk assessment
  • Statistical, stochastic, and physical hydrology
  • Modernization of stormwater and flood management theory and practice

  • 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Arno Lenz Memorial Professorship
  • 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
  • 2021 Natural Hazards Section, American Geophysical Union, Early Career Award
  • 2021 Earth's Future, Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
  • 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Exceptional Service Award
  • 2020 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Science and Technology Project of the Year
  • 2018 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2015 Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Outstanding Reviewer
  • 2014 Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Outstanding Reviewer
  • 2014 NASA , Postdoctoral Program Fellowship Award
  • 2012 Computational Hydraulics International , University Grant Program Award
  • 2003 University of Michigan Chapter, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
  • 2002 University of Michigan , Dean’s List 2002-2005 and Cum Laude graduate
  • 1998 Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout with Bronze Palm

  • Mishra, A., Mukherjee, S., Merz, B., Singh, V. P., Wright, D., Villarini, G., Paul, S., Kumar, D. N., Khedun, C. P., Niyogi, D., & others, (2022). An overview of flood concepts, challenges, and future directions. Journal of hydrologic engineering, 27(6), 03122001.
  • Alizadeh, B., Bafti, A. G., Kamangir, H., Zhang, Y., Wright, D., & Franz, K. J. (2021). A novel attention-based LSTM cell post-processor coupled with bayesian optimization for streamflow prediction. Journal of Hydrology, 601, 126526.
  • Ivanov, V. Y., Xu, D., Dwelle, M. C., Sargsyan, K., Wright, D., Katopodes, N., Kim, J., Tran, V. N., Warnock, A., Fatichi, S., & others, (2021). Breaking down the computational barriers to real-time urban flood forecasting. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), e2021GL093585.
  • Butterworth, B. J., Desai, A. R., Townsend, P. A., Petty, G. W., Andresen, C. G., Bertram, T. H., Kruger, E. L., Mineau, J. K., Olson, E. R., Paleri, S., & others, (2021). Connecting land--atmosphere interactions to surface heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(2), E421--E445.
  • Wright, D., Yu, G., & England, J. F. (2020). Six decades of rainfall and flood frequency analysis using stochastic storm transposition: Review, progress, and prospects. Journal of Hydrology, 585, 124816.
  • Yu, G., Wright, D., Zhu, Z., Smith, C., & Holman, K. D. (2019). Process-based flood frequency analysis in an agricultural watershed exhibiting nonstationary flood seasonality. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(5), 2225--2243.
  • Cristiano, E., ten Veldhuis, M., Wright, D., Smith, J. A., & van de Giesen, N. (2019). The influence of rainfall and catchment critical scales on urban hydrological response sensitivity. Water Resources Research, 55(4), 3375--3390.
  • Wright, D., Bosma, C. D., & Lopez-Cantu, T. (2019). US hydrologic design standards insufficient due to large increases in frequency of rainfall extremes. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(14), 8144--8153.
  • Zhu, Z., Wright, D., & Yu, G. (2018). The impact of rainfall space-time structure in flood frequency analysis. Water Resources Research, 54(11), 8983--8998.
  • Wright, D., Mantilla, R., & Peters-Lidard, C. D. (2017). A remote sensing-based tool for assessing rainfall-driven hazards. Environmental modelling & software, 90, 34--54.

  • CIV ENGR 311 - Hydroscience (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 919 - Seminar-Hydraulic Engineering and Fluid Mechanics (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 516 - Hydrologic Data Analysis (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 619 - Special Topics in Hydrology (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 919 - Seminar-Hydraulic Engineering and Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 311 - Hydroscience (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 919 - Seminar-Hydraulic Engineering and Fluid Mechanics (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 415 - Hydrology (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Summer 2023)