dg.o 2007

Global Climate Change Keynote Panelist

Richard P. Hooper, Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Washington, DC

Dr. Richard P. Hooper is President and Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI).  CUAHSI has been developing infrastructure for the hydrologic science research community, specifically with its Hydrologic Information Systems project. This effort produced a vision for the establishment of a “virtual earth,” a geographically referenced data system constructed by federating data from multiple government agencies and academic researchers.

Dr. Hooper received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Cornell University in Environmental Systems Engineering.  He came to CUAHSI from the U.S. Geological Survey, where he was a Research Hydrologist at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed outside Atlanta and chief scientist for the National Stream Quality Accounting Network and Hydrologic Benchmark Network. His research interests include network design, non-point source pollution, streamflow generation mechanisms, and multivariate statistical techniques.