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Research
Steve Lyon's research centers on identifying the underlying physical processes that determine how landscapes and water interact across scales and coevolve with time. Unraveling these feedbacks has significant implications for the viability of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies associated with the current and future sustainability of coupled terrestrial and aquatic systems.
Teaching
Ongoing involvment with...
- Information and modeling systems for land and water resources (GE7006)
- Local to global water vulnerability and resilience (GE7025)
- How to use Matlab to solve problems in environmental, climatological, and earth science research (BBCC PhD Course)
- Ecohydrology: a Mediterranean perspective (GE7049)
- Reoccurring guest lecturer in Hydrology and Hydrogeology (GE5004), Biogeochemical Cycles (MO7013), Urbanization and Environment (KG7204) and several other courses
Supervision
Current PhD Students and Postdocs
- Dr. Benjamin Fischer (postdoc supervisor) - Impact o fbiochar on tropical agriculture water use efficiency (joining October 2017)
- Dr. Valentin Mansanarez (postdoc supervisor) - Assessing rating curve uncertainty via hydraulic modeling
- Dr. Madaka Tumbo (postdoc supervisor) - Tracer hydrology in data limited regions
- Dr. Subira Munishi (postdoc supervisor) - Coupled land use and landscape changes
- William Senkondo (main PhD supervisor) - Modeling hydrology and water resources of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
- Orn-uma (Ni) Polpanich (main PhD supervisor) - Rethinking hydrological modeling for sustainable water resource development (at Uppsala University)
- John Livsey (minor supervisor) - Rice and water-carbon cycling
- Charlotta Högberg (minor supervisor) - Isotopes in the upper atmosphere
- Edmond Alavaisha (minor PhD supervisor) - Biodiversity and ecosystem services in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
- Dmytro Kyryliuk (minor PhD supervisor) - Combining ocean color remote sensing and hydrological parameters for evaluating the effect of terrestrial run-off on coastal ecology
- Rene Mbanguka (minor PhD supervisor) - Modelling water resources effects of land-water management in Tanzania, Africa
Former PhD Students and Postdocs
- Dr. Norris Lam (main PhD supervisor) - Now at Stockholm University
- Dr. Alexander Koutsouris (main PhD supervisor) - Now at Stockholm University
- Dr. Mattias Winterdahl (postdoc supervisor) - Now at Stockholm University
- Dr. Elin Jacobs (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at Purdue University
- Dr. Ylva Sjöberg (main PhD supervisor) - Now at Stockholm University
- Dr. Elin Jantze (main PhD supervisor) - Now at Lanstyrelsen Västmanlands län
- Dr. Helen Dahlke (postdoc supervisor) - Now at UC Davis
- Lic. Marcus Nathanson (main PhD supervisor) - Now at Åsö vuxengymnasium
- Dr. Elikana Kalumanga (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at University of Dar es Salaam
- Dr. Fernando Jaramillo (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at University of Gothenburg
- Dr. Johanna Mård Karlsson (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at Stockholm University
- Dr. Arvid Bring (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at University of New Hampshire
- Dr. Katerina Mazi (minor PhD supervisor) - Now at National Observatory of Athens
Selected Publications
Ten recent publications
Senkondo, W., J. Tuwa, A. Koutsouris, S.W. Lyon (2017) Estimating Aquifer Transmissivity Using the Recession-Curve-Displacement Method in Tanzania’s Kilombero Valley, Water, 9(12), 948; doi:10.3390/w9120948
Koutsouris, A.J., J. Seibert, S.W. Lyon (2017) Utilization of Global Precipitation Datasets in Data Limited Regions: A Case Study of Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Atmosphere, 8(12), 246, doi:10.3390/atmos8120246
Matti, B., H.E. Dahlke, B. Dieppois, D.M. Lawler, S.W. Lyon (2017) Flood seasonality across Scandinavia – Evidence of a shifting hydrograph? Hydrological Processes. 10.1002/hyp.11365
Thorslund, J., J. Jarsjö, F. Jaramillo, J. Jawitz, S. Manzoni, N.B. Basu, S. Chalov, M. Cohen, I. Creed, R. Goldenberg, A. Hylin, Z. Kalantari, A. Koussis, S. Lyon, K. Mazi, J. Mård, K. Persson, J. Pietroń, C. Prieto, A. Quin, K. Van Meter, G. Destouni (2017) Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions: status and challenges for research, engineering and management, Ecological Engineering, in press.
Karlsson, C., Z. Kalantari, U. Mörtberg, B. Olofsson, S.W. Lyon (2017) Natural hazard susceptibility assessment for road planning using spatial multi-criteria analysis, Environmental Management, in press.
Lyon, S.W., K. King, O. Polpanich, G. Lacombe (2017) Assessing hydrologic changes across the Lower Mekong Basin, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 12, 303-314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2017.06.007.
Polpanich, O., S.W. Lyon, C. Krittasudthacheewa, A.L. Bush, E. Kemp-Benedict (2017) Modeling impacts of development on water resources in the Huai Sai Bat Sub-basin of Northeastern Thailand with a participatory approach, International Journal of Water Resources Development, doi:10.1080/07900627.2017.1322940.
Mbanguka, R.P., S.W. Lyon, K. Holmgren, M.G. Lopez, J. Jarsjö (2016) Water Balance and Level Change of Lake Babati, Tanzania: Sensitivity to Hydroclimatic Forcings, Water, 8(12), 572, doi:10.3390/w8120572.
Winterdahl, M., M. Wallin, R.H. Karlsen, H. Laudon, M. Öquist, S.W. Lyon (2016) De-coupling of carbon dioxide and dissolved organic carbon in boreal headwater streams, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 121, 2630-2651, doi:10.1002/2016JG003420.
Michielsen, A., Z. Kalantari, S.W. Lyon, E. Liljegren (2016) Predicting and Communicating Flood Risk of Transport Infrastructure based on Watershed Characteristics, Journal of Environmental Management, 182, 505-518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.051.
Ten highly cited publications
McDonnell, J., K. McGuire, P. Aggarwal, K. Beven, D. Biondi, G. Destouni, S. Dunn, A. James, J. Kirchner, P. Kraft, S. Lyon, P. Maloszewski, B. Newman, L. Pfister, A. Rinaldo, A. Rodhe, T. Sayama, J. Seibert, K. Solomon, C. Soulsby, M. Stewart, D. Tetzlaff, C. Tobin, P. Troch, M. Weiler, A. Western, A. Wörman, S. Wrede (2010), How old is the water? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis, Hydrological Processes, 24(12), 1745-1754, doi:10.1002/hyp.7796.
Lyon, S.W., M.T. Walter, P. Gérard-Marchant, and T.S. Steenhuis (2004), Using a topographic index to distribute variable source area runoff predicted with the SCS-curve number equation, Hydrological Processes, 18(15), 2757-2771.
Agnew, L.J., S.W. Lyon, P. Gérard-Marchant, V.B. Collins, A.J. Lembo, T.S. Steenhuis, and M.T. Walter (2006), Identifying hydrologically sensitive areas: Bridging the gap between science and application, Journal of Environmental Management, 78, 63-76.
Lyon, S.W., G. Destouni, R. Giesler, C. Humborg, M. Mörth, J. Seibert, J. Karlsson, and P.A. Troch (2009), Estimation of permafrost thawing rates in a sub-arctic catchment using recession flow analysis, Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences, 13, 595-604, doi:10.5194/hess-13-595-2009.
Heidbüchel, I., P.A. Troch, S.W. Lyon, and M. Weiler (2012), The master transit time distribution of variable flow systems, Water Resources Research, 48, 6, doi:10.1029/2011WR011293.
Lyon, S.W., A.J. Lembo, M.T. Walter, and T.S. Steenhuis (2006), Defining probability of saturation with indicator kriging on hard and soft data, Advances in Water Resources, 29(2), 181-193.
Broxton, P.D., P.A. Troch, and S.W. Lyon (2009), On the role of aspect to quantify water transit times in small mountainous catchments, Water Resources Research, 45, W08427, doi:10.1029/2008WR007438.
Lyon, S.W., M. Nathanson, A. Spans, T. Grabs, H. Laudon, J. Temnerud, K. Bishop, and J. Seibert (2012), Specific discharge variability in a boreal landscape, Water Resources Research, 48, 8, doi:10.1029/2011WR011073.
Lyon, S.W., J. Seibert, A.J. Lembo, M.T. Walter, and T.S. Steenhuis (2006), Geostatistical investigation into the temporal evolution of spatial structure in a shallow water table, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10, 113-125, doi:10.5194/hess-10-113-2006.
Lyon, S.W., S.L.E. Desilets, and P.A. Troch (2009), A tale of two isotopes: Differences in hydrograph separation for a runoff event when using dD vs. d18O, Hydrological Processes, 23(4), 2095-2101, doi:10.1002/hyp.7326.
Research
Steve Lyon's research centers on identifying the underlying physical processes that determine how landscapes and water interact across scales and coevolve with time. Unraveling these feedbacks has significant implications for the viability of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies associated with the current and future sustainability of coupled terrestrial and aquatic systems.