Elsa Culler is interested in the ways in which land and water management decisions interact with the changing climate. Currently her research projects include the impacts of wildfires on the likelihood of future landslides and modeling present and future sediment accumulation in dams. Prior to coming to CU Boulder, she worked on data management and security software and informal engineering education for middle- and high-school students. She earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in 2013.
Sedimentation and runoff in the Colorado Front Range: Diagnosing fire-related changes
Heldmyer, A. J., B. Livneh, and S. Kampf, CIRES Rendezvous, Boulder, CO, May 2018: Sedimentation and runoff in the Colorado Front Range: Diagnosing fire-related changes
Assessing the Impacts of Wildfire on Sedimentation and Runoff in the Colorado Front Range
Heldmyer, A. J., B. Livneh, and S. Kampf, Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 2018: Assessing the Impacts of Wildfire on Sedimentation and Runoff in the Colorado Front Range
Soil Moisture Data Assimilation to Estimate Irrigation Water Use
A Multi-Platform Approach to Generate Gridded Surface Evaporation
Evapotranspiration is an integral component of the surface water balance. While there are many estimates of evapotranspiration, there are fewer estimates that partition evapotranspiration into evaporation and transpiration components. My work aims to generate a CONUS-scale, observationally-based soil evaporation dataset by using the time difference of surface soil moisture by Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite with adjustments for transpiration and a bottom flux out of the surface layer.
Assessing Causes of Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri Basin
Livneh B., M. P. Hoerling, A. M. Badger, J. K. Eischeid, and R. S. Webb, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2015: Assessing Causes of Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri Basin
Understand Sources of Predictability of Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri Basin
Badger, A. M., B. Livneh, M. P. Hoerling, J. K. Eischeid, and R. S. Webb, CIRES Rendezvous, Boulder, CO, May, 2016: Understand Sources of Predictability of Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri Basin
Teleconnections from land surface anomalies affect SSTs: Two distinct examples
Dirmeyer, P. A., S. Halder, and A. M. Badger, CLIVAR Open Science Conference, Qingdao, China, September, 2016: Teleconnections from land surface anomalies affect SSTs: Two distinct examples
Generating a global soil evaporation dataset using SMAP soil moisture data to estimate components of the surface water balance
Carbone, E., E. E. Small, A. M. Badger, and B. Livneh, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2016: Generating a global soil evaporation dataset using SMAP soil moisture data to estimate components of the surface water balance
Hydrologic Response to Climatic and Vegetation Change in an Extreme Alpine Environment
Livenh, B., A. M. Badger, N. P. Molotch, C. Bueno de Mesquita, and K. Suding., American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2016: Hydrologic Response to Climatic and Vegetation Change in an Extreme Alpine Environment