Over the past decade, Dr. Gronewold has led research focused on understanding major components of the hydrologic cycle, with an emphasis on the Laurentian Great Lakes.  His research has led to improvements in regional land surface models, the introduction and continued maintenance of novel evaporation monitoring platforms, and recommendations for implementing a binational blend of continental precipitation products.  Dr. Gronewold's presentation will convey new statistical modeling approaches to reconcile discrepancies between alternate data sources for the regional water balance, and will outline plans for propagating lessons learned from the Laurentian Great Lakes to other large lake systems around the world.

Drew Gronewold is an associate professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Professor Gronewold’s research interests lie in hydrological modeling, with a focus on propagating uncertainty and variability into model-based water resources management decisions.