Luis A. Bastidas

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: luis.bastidas@usu.edu
Phone:
(435)797-8228
Fax:
(435)797-1185
Office:
EL-211F
U.S. Mail Address:

Utah State University
4110 Old Main Hill
Logan, Utah 84322-4110


EDUCATION

Ph.D. Hydrology, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, 1998. Advisor Soroosh Sorooshian.
M.S. Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 1990
B.S. Civil Engineering, Major in Hydraulics, Department of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, 1986

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Hydroclimate modeling, land surface modeling, integrated catchment modeling, applications of remote sensing in hydrology, rainfall-runoff modeling, flood forecasting and control, model performance evaluation, multi-objective and global optimization, river modeling.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Research Associate, University of Arizona, 1997-1998
Research Assistant, University of Arizona, 1995-1997
Fulbright Scholarship, USIA, 1993-1995
British Council Scholarship, 1989-1990
Ecuadorian Institute of Electrification Scholarship, 1984-1986

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Academic and Research

8/2002-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2/2002-present: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
8/1998-1/2002: Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. During Fall Semester 1999 taught the HWR 696f Seminar Class Advanced Hydrologic Modeling, together with Professors Sorooshian and Gupta. Fall 2001, taught the HWR class Analysis of Hydrologic Systems together with Prof. Sorooshian. Spring 2002 taught HWR 696f.
8/1996-8/1998: Research Associate, Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
8/1995-8/1996: Research Assistant, Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
6/1993-7/1993: Principal Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
1/1991-5/1993: Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
5/1987-6/1989: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
Classes taught included: Engineering Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods, and Computer Languages.

Practical Engineering Experience

1/1987-12/1993: Consultant Engineer for several hydrology, hydroelectric, flood control and river engineering projects in Ecuador:
1987 Hydrological studies for the Nayon Hydroelectric Project, EPN-Empresa Electrica Quito, Ecuador. Determination of the available water.
1989 Modeling of the upper watershed of the Ambato river to establish the available resources for the water supply to the city of Ambato, Ecuador. Integral Consultores.
1989 Numerical modeling of the Chone river (Ecuador) sediment transport to establish the frequency of required dredging in the proposed flood control structures.          AGCOM Consultores.
1990 Member of the team developing the program HYDRO_3D for the Consultant firm Mott_MacDonalds, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Main work in developing the          finite element model for the sediment transport.
1991-1992 Hydrological and hydraulic studies for the design of the flood protection structures for the city of Babahoyo-Ecuador, Asociacion de Consultores Babahoyo (CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH, Astec_Hidroestudios_ICP_Acsam.
1992 Hydrological studies for the project of torrent control on the western city of Quito-Ecuador. Design of flood defenses. ICP Consultores.
1992 Hydrologic studies, Project for improvement of the Machangara River water quality, Quito-Ecuador, Consorcio GWE- ICP Consultores.
1992 Hydrologic studies for the feasibility of the new landfill for the city of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador.
1992 Hydrologic studies for the drainage of the new airports of the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, ICP Consultores.
1992 In charge of the numerical modeling of the Coca River. Work performed for Consorcio Coca Codo Sinclair with the collaboration of the Delft Hydraulics          Laboratory.
1993 Hydrology for the prefeasibility studies of the Gran Sumaco Conservation Project, Consorcio AGRAR_Und Hydrotechnik Gmbh - ICP Consultores
8/1990-12/1990: Modeler, River Engineering Department, Hydraulic Research Ltd., Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
1/1985-4/1987: Hydraulic Engineer, Ecuadorian Institute of Water Resources, Quito, Ecuador. Duties included hydrologic studies and design of irrigation systems and          structures.

AFFILIATIONS

American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Hidraulica
Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles del Ecuador

ACTIVITIES AND RESEARCH

2001 - to date Member of the GLASS (Global Land Atmosphere System Studies) Science Panel.
2001 - to date Member of the Working Group for the Joint IHP-V and IGBP-BAHC Project for the book “The Value of Coupling in Hydrology”.
2000-to date Co-I in the project “Monitoring and Prediction of Water Distribution/Availability in Semi-Arid Regions”, funded by NASA.
2000-to date Co-PI in the project AImproving methods for calibration of land surface models in semi-arid regions@, funded by SAHRA an NSF Science and Technology          Center.
2000-to date Reviewer of several research proposals for the NASA-GEWEC (Global Energy and Water Cycle), GAPP (GEWEX Americas Prediction Project), and          NSF B Geosciences, Hydrology Section.
1999-to date Reviewer of research papers for Water Resources Research, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of          Hydrometeorology, Journal of Hydrological Sciences, Hydrological Processes, and the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
1999 Co-Chair of the Sessions H32G and H41B Coupled Modeling of Hydrologic and other Environmental Processes, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union.
1995-to date Worked on research projects funded by various agencies including NSF, NASA, NOAA, NWS, among others.
1988-1989 Principal Investigator in the Project Hydrologic Regionalization of Ecuador, funded by the National Universities Council (CONUEP), Ecuador.
10/1986-4/1987 Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.

GRADUATE LEVEL COURSEWORK

Advanced and Fluvial Fluid Mechanics, Computational Hydraulics, Hydraulic Engineering Design, Hydraulic Structures, Unsteady Flow in Open Channels, Water Chemistry, Water Quality Dynamics, Hydrogeology, Subsurface Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods in Subsurface Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Hydrology, Hydrologic Transport Processes, Applied Groundwater Modeling, Soil Physics, Advanced Hydrologic Modeling, Analysis of Hydrologic Systems, Hydrometeorology, Advanced Methods in Hydrometeorology, Engineering Hydrology, Geostatistics, Non-Linear Programming, Hydrologic Risk Analysis, Multi-Objective analysis, Fuzzy Logic, Multivariate Statistics, Data Structures.

LANGUAGES

Spanish, mother tongue
English, fluent.
Russian, fluent

PUBLICATIONS

Bastidas, L. A., H.V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.L. Yang "Sensitivity Analysis of a Land Surface Scheme using Multi-Criteria Methods", Journal of         Geophysical Research, Vol. 104, No D16, p. 19,481-19,490, 1999.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Bounding parameters of land surface schemes with observational data, in Observations and Modeling of the Land         Surface Hydrological Processes, V. Lakshmi, J. Albertson & J. Schaake, Editors, Water Science and Application Volume 3, p. 65-76, American Geophysical         Union, 2001.
Bastidas, L. A., S. Sorooshian, and H. V. Gupta, Emerging Paradigms in the Calibration of Hydrologic Models, in Mathematical Models of Large Watershed Hydrology         B Volume I, V. P. Singh, D. Frevert, Editors, pp. 25-56, Water Resources Publications, LLC, Englewood, Colorado, 2002.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Parameter, Structure and Performance Evaluation for Land Surface Models, in Advances in the Calibration of         Watershed Models, Q. Duan, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, A. Rousseau, and R. Turcotte, Editors, AGU, Expected Publication 2002
Bastidas, L.A. and S. Sarasti, Hydrologic characterization of southern Ecuador, V Ecuadorian Congress of Hydraulics, Quito, Ecuador, November, 1988.
Bastidas, L.A. and F. Cruz, Evapotranspiration in Ecuador, V Ecuadorian Congress of Hydraulics, Quito, Ecuador, November, 1988.
Bastidas, L. A. and N. Valdospinos, Numerical Modeling of the "dam break" of the landslide at La Josefina site, Seminar at the Escuela Politécnica del Ejercito, Quito,         Ecuador, June, 1993
Burke, E. J., W. J. Shuttleworth, L. A. Bastidas, and K. Lee, Using area-average remotely sensed soil moisture in multi-patch land data assimilation systems, IEEE         Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, V 39, No. 10, pp. 2091-2100, 2001.
Burke, E. J., L. A. Bastidas and W. J. Shuttleworth, Multi-patch retrieval for the SMOS mission, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, V 40, No. 5,         pp. 114-1120, 2002.
Gupta, H.V., L. A. Bastidas, L., S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.L. Yang, Parameter Estimation of a Land Surface Scheme using Multi-Criteria Methods",         Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 104, No D16, p. 19,491-19,504, 1999.
Gupta, H.V., S. Sorooshian, X. Gao, B. Imam, K. Hsu, L.A. Bastidas, J. Li, and S. Mahani, The challenge of predicting flash floods from thunderstorm rainfall,         Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 360(1796), pp. 1363-1371, 2002
Gupta, H.V., L.A. Bastidas, J. Vrugt, and S. Sorooshian, Multiple Criteria Global Optimization for Watershed Model Calibrations, in Advances in the Calibration of         Watershed Models, Q. Duan, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, A. Rousseau, and R. Turcotte, Editors, AGU, Expected Publication 2002
Hogue, T.S., L. A. Bastidas, H. V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Evaluation of parameter uncertainty for different levels of land-surface model complexity, American         Meteorological Society Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January, 2001.
Meixner, T., H. V. Gupta, L. A. Bastidas and R. C. Bales, The Use of Mass Flux or Concentration for Sensitivity Analysis of the Alpine Hydrochemical Model,         Hydrological Processes, 13, pp. 2233-2244, 1999.
Meixner, T., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta, and R. C. Bales, Multi-criteria parameter estimation for models of stream chemical composition, Water Resources Research,         38(3), pp. 9.1-9.9, 2002.
Meixner, T, H.V. Gupta, L.A. Bastidas, and R. Bales, Estimating model parameters and structure using multi-criteria B case study with the Alpine Hydrochemical Model,         in Advances in the Calibration of Watershed Models, Q. Duan, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, A. Rousseau, and R. Turcotte, Editors, AGU, Expected Publication         2002
Sen, O.L., L.A. Bastidas, W.J. Shuttleworth, Z.L. Yang, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Impact of Field Calibrated Vegetation Parameters on GCM Climate         Simulations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 127, No. 574, Part B, pp. 1199-1224, 2001.
Sorooshian, S., L.A. Bastidas, and H.V. Gupta, Application of multi-objective optimization algorithms for hydrologic model identification and parameterization, 2nd         International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water, and Environmental Management, August 1-5 1999, Brisbane, Australia.
Xia, Y., A.J. Pitman, H.V. Gupta, M. Lepastrier, A. Henderson-Sellers, and L.A. Bastidas, Calibrating a land surface model of varying complexity using multi-criteria         methods and the Cabauw data set, Journal of Hydrometeorology, V3(2) pp. 181-194, 2002.
Zarria, M. and L.A. Bastidas, Rainfall-Runoff Modeling in Ecuador, IV Ecuadorian Congress of Hydraulics, Portoviejo, Ecuador, December, 1985.

Reports

Bastidas, L. A., Parameter estimation for hydrometeorological models using multi-criteria methods, Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources,         University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1998.
Bastidas, L. A., A three-dimensional numerical model for sediment transport, Master of Science Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon         Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 1990.
Bastidas, L. A., Numerical modeling of the Amaluza Reservoir sedimentation using HEC-6, Civil Engineering Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politecnica         Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, 1986.
Sorooshian, S., H. V. Gupta, and L. A. Bastidas, Calibration of Hydrologic Models Using Multi-Objectives and Visualization Techniques, Final Report to the National         Science Foundation on the Grant EAR-941847, October, 1998.

Papers in Review

Bastidas, L.A., H.V. Gupta, O.L. Sen, Y. Liu, S. Sorooshian, and W.J. Shuttleworth, Comparative evaluation of land surface models using multi-criteria methods,         submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2002.
Bastidas, L.A., K.W. Blasch, H.V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian and W.J. Shuttleworth, Inferring Areal Scale Parameter Estimates for Land Surface Models from Available         Observational Data, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2002.
Demarty J., C. Ottlé, I. Braud, J.P. Frangi, L.A. Bastidas, and H.V. Gupta, Using a Multiobjective Sensitivity Analysis to calibrate the SiSPAT-RS Model, submitted to         the Journal of Hydrology, 2002.

Abstracts and Presentations

Bastidas, L. A., The use of remote sensing and multi-criteria method to improve parameter estimation in land surface models, Seminar presentation at the Department of         Hydrology and Water Resources, New Mexico Institute of Technology, March 18, 2002.
Bastidas, L. A., Multi-criteria to improve parameter estimation in hydro-meteorological and environmental models, Seminar presentation at the Department of Civil and         Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, April 2, 2002.
Bastidas, L. A., Y. Liu, H. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Calibration of locally coupled Land-Surface Models, GLASS Meeting, De Bilt, Netherlands, April, 2002
Bastidas, L. A., Y. Liu, H. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Parameter Estimation for Coupled Land-Surface Models, GAPP Meeting - AMS, New Orleans, May 13-17, 2002
Bastidas, L. A., Multi-criteria methods in hydrologic modeling: parameter, structure, and model performance evaluation, Department of Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania         State University, May 16, 2001.
Bastidas, L. A., Using multi-criteria to improve parameter estimation in land surface models, Seminar presentation at the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources,         University of Arizona, October 11, 2000.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Parameter estimation for the NOAH-LSM, presented at the NCEP workshop on Land Surface Modeling, Camp         Springs, Maryland, October 23-25, 2000.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta and S. Sorooshian, Multi Objective Generalized Sensitivity Analysis (MOGSA) for Land Surface Parameterization Schemes, presented at         AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec. 6-10, 1997.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.L. Yang, Comparison of Land Surface Schemes by use of Multi-Criteria Methods, presented at the         Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, December 6-10, 1998.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and W.J. Shuttleworth, Effect of Areal Versus Point Information in the Parameter Identification of Land Surface Schemes         Using Multi-Criteria Methods, presented at the 22nd General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Birmingham, U. K., July 18-30,         1999.
Bastidas, L., H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth, Advances in Parameter Identification of Land-Surface Schemes Using Multi-Criteria Methods, Presented at         the PILPS Review Meeting, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, July 20, 1999.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta and S. Sorooshian, Evaluating the Consistency of Multiple-Output Models using Observational Data, Presented at the Fall Meeting of the         American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 13-17, 1999.
Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, K. Blasch, O. L. Sen, S. Sorooshian, W. J. Shuttleworth, Constraining LSS by Using Observational Data and Multi-Criteria Techniques,         presented at the NASA Land Surface Hydrology Program Investigators Meeting, Columbia, MD, November 1-2, 1999.
Bastidas, L.A., K. Hsu, I. Yucel, S. Sorooshian, and W. J. Shuttleworth, Applications of satellite data assimilation for improved model estimations in semi-arid lands,         presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec. 10-14, 2001
Bastidas, L. A., O. L. Sen, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and W. J. Shuttleworth, Overview of the use of Multi-Criteria Methods for Parameter Estimation of Land Surface         Schemes, presented at the GCIP Principal Investigators Meeting, Potomac, MD, March 6-8, 2000.

Bastidas, L. A., H. V. Gupta, Y. Liu, and S. Sorooshian, Multi-criteria comparison of land surface models, Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA,        December 16-21, 2000.
Blasch, K.W., L.A. Bastidas, R.L. Scott, H.V. Gupta and S. Sorooshian, Monsoonal/Non-Monsoonal Land Surface Model Parameterizations for Semi-Arid Riparian         Locations, Presented at the NOAA 24th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, November 1-5,1999.
Blasch, K.W., L.A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta and S. Sorooshian, Inferring Areal Scale Parameter Estimates For Land Surface Models From Available Observational Data,         Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 13-17, 1999.
Burke, E. J., W. J. Shuttleworth, L. A. Bastidas, Using area-average remotely sensed surface soil moisture in multi-patch land data assimilation systems, International         Workshop on Catchment Scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Wageningen, Netherlands, September 3-5, 2001.
Gupta, H. V., L. A. Bastidas, S. Sorooshian, and W. J. Shuttleworth, On the Calibration of Land-Atmosphere Models: How Much Performance Improvement Is         Possible?, presented at the GCIP Mississippi River Climate Conference, June 8-12, 1998, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998.
Gupta, H. V., L. A. Bastidas, S. Sorooshian, and W. J. Shuttleworth, Advances in The Calibration and Evaluation of Land-Atmosphere Models Using Multi-criteria         Approaches, Invited presentation at the 1998 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Taipei, Taiwan, July 21_24, 1998.
Gupta, H. V., L. A. Bastidas, S. Sorooshian, and W.J. Shuttleworth, Parameter Estimation for Land Surface Schemes via Multi-Criteria Calibration, Invited Presentation         at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 6-10, 1998.
Gupta, H.V., S. Sorooshian and L. Bastidas, Multi-Criteria Methods for Improved Calibration of Hydrologic Models, Invited Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the         American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 6-10, 1998.
Gupta, H.V., L. A. Bastidas, S. Sorooshian W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.L. Yang, Using Multi-Criteria Methods to Improve Land Surface Parameterizations, Invited         Presentation at the International Strategy Forum of the Project for Inter-comparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,         Feb 23-26, 1999.
Gupta, H.V., L. A. Bastidas, S. Sorooshian W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.L. Yang, Using Multi-Criteria Methods to Improve Land Surface Parameterizations, Invited         Presentation at the Eleventh Session of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Scientific Steering Group for the Global Energy and Water Cycle         Experiment (GEWEX), Tucson, Arizona, USA, Jan 25-29, 1999.
Gupta, H.V., S. Sorooshian, X. Gao, K. Hsu, L. Bastidas, and S. Mahani, On the challenge of predicting flash-floods from thunderstorm rainfall, British Royal Society         Meeting on Floods, November 21-22, 2001
Gupta, H.V., L. A. Bastidas, T.S. Hogue, and S. Sorooshian, Evaluation of the carbon flux simulations over the Southwest U.S., GAPP Meeting - AMS, New Orleans,         May 13-17, 2002
Hogue, T.S., L. A. Bastidas, H. V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Evaluation of parameter uncertainty for different levels of land-surface model complexity, American         Meteorological Society Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January, 2001.
Hogue, T. S., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta,, S. Sorooshian, Estimating surface carbon fluxes using multi-objective techniques, 4th International GEWEX Conference,         September 10-14, 2001, Paris.
Hogue, T. S., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, Investigation of Carbon Flux Modeling using Multi-Criteria Techniques, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,         California, USA, December 10-14, 2001.
Hogue, T. S., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and W. Emmerich, Modeling of energy, water and carbon fluxes in semi-arid regions, AGU Spring Meeting,         Washington, DC, May, 2002.
Liu Y., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta,, S. Sorooshian, Multi-Criteria parameter estimation for coupled land-surface models, 4th International GEWEX Conference,         September 10-14, 2001, Paris.
Meixner, T., L. A. Bastidas, H.V. Gupta, and R.C. Bales, Multi-objective Sensitivity Analysis for the Alpine Hydrochemical Model, presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San         Francisco, California, December 1997
Meixner, T., H. V. Gupta, L. A. Bastidas and R. C. Bales, The Use of Mass Flux or Concentration for Sensitivity Analysis of the Alpine Hydrochemical Model, Presented         at the International Conference on Snow Hydrology, Brownsville, Vermont, USA, October 6-9, 1998.

Meixner, T. H., L. A. Bastidas, H. V., Gupta and R. C. Bales, Multi-Criteria Parameter Sensitivity and Estimation with the Alpine Hydrochemical Model, presented at the         Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, Nuevo Mexico, USA, February         1-5, 1999.
Meixner, T. H., L. A. Bastidas, H. V., Gupta and R. C. Bales, Multi-Response Data and Calibrating Models of Stream Chemistry, presented at the Fall Meeting of the         American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 13-17, 1999.
Miller N. L., L.A. Bastidas, A Non-uniform Grid Scheme for Coupling Land Surface Processes at Multiple Scales, presented at Chapman conference on eco-hydrology         of semi-arid landscapes: interactions and processes, Taos, NM, 9-13 September, 2002
Sorooshian, S., H.V. Gupta, and L. Bastidas, Multi-Criteria Methods for Improved Calibration of Hydrologic Models, Seminar presentation at the Department of Systems         and Industrial Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 29, 1999.
Sorooshian, S., L. A. Bastidas, and H. V. Gupta, Application of multi-objective optimization algorithms for hydrologic model identification and parameterization, 2nd         International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water, and Environmental Management, August 1-5 1999, Brisbane, Australia.
Sorooshian, S., L. A. Bastidas, and H. V. Gupta, Bounding parameter sets for land surface models using remotely sensed information and multi-criteria, European         Geophysical Union XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April, 2002.
Valdés, J. B., L. A. Bastidas, D. Entekhabi, Garcia N., Climate-based hydrologic forecasting with uncertainty propagation, Presented at the NOAA 24th Annual Climate         Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, November 1-5,1999.