Dr. Glenn E. Moglen 

Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering

• B.S., University of Maryland, 1987.
• M.S., Colorado State University, 1989.
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.

Phone: 703-538-3786
Fax: 703-538-8450

E-mail: moglen(at)vt.edu

Current streamflow conditions for Virginia from the USGS

Academic Experience:

• 2008 - Present, Professor, Virginia Tech
• 2003 - 2004, Visiting Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Surface Water
• 2002 - 2008, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
• 1996 - 2002, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
• 1995 - 1996, Visiting Scientist, National Weather Service, HRL
• 1994 - 1995, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Courses Taught:

• CEE 4304 - Hydrology
• General Description
• Fall 2009 Syllabus
• CEE 5324 - Advanced Hydrology
• General Description
• Fall 2008 Syllabus
• CEE 5734 - Urban Hydrology and Stormwater Management
• General Description
• Spring 2009 Syllabus

Research Interests:

• Modeling Watershed Evolution (animation) 
• Using GIS to assess hydrologic consequences of land use change
• Geomorphology
• Channel Stability/Restoration
• Land Use Change and Urban Sprawl

Selected Research Projects:

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water and Watersheds Study - Land Use Conversion: Economics, Hydrology, and Ecology
• See Animation of Land Use Change in Northwest Branch of Anacostia: One of the watersheds in this study
• See Animation of Land Use Change in the Sligo Creek Watershed: prepared for the Friends of Sligo Creek
• See Bulletin 107 of the Yale Forestry and Environmental Studies Bulletin Series
• Our Chapter: The Ecological Consequences of Changing Land Use for Running Waters, with a Case Study of Urbanizing Watersheds in Maryland
• Maryland State Highway Administration, Evaluation of Alternative Statistical Methods for Estimating Frequency of Peak Flows in Maryland
• Maryland State Highway Administration, GISHydro2000: A Tool for Automating Hydrologic Analysis in Maryland and Delaware
• Transportation Research News Article about GISHydro2000

Scientific and Professional Societies:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Chairman, Watershed Management Technical Committee
• Steering Committee Member, Watershed Management 2010: Innovations in Watershed Management Under Land Use and Climate Change
• Chairman, Impervious Surfaces Task Committee
• Conference Chairman, Watershed Management 2005: Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges
• American Geophysical Union
• American Water Resources Association

Journal Publications:

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1. Moglen, G.E., (2009). "Hydrology and Impervious Areas." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 14(4): 303-304.
2. Mejia, A.I. and G.E. Moglen, (2009). "Spatial Patterns of Urban Development from Optimization of Flood Peaks and Imperviousness-Based Measures." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 14(4): 416-424.
3. Hejazi, M.I., and G.E. Moglen, (2008). "The Effects of Climate and Land Use Change on Flow Duration in the Maryland Piedmont Region." Hydrological Processes DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7080.
4. Shivers, D.E., and G.E. Moglen, (2008). "Spurious Correlation in the USEPA Rating Curve Method for Estimating Pollutant Loads." Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 134(8): 610-618.
5. Pavlovic, S.A. and G.E. Moglen, (2008). "Discretization Issues in Travel Time Calculation." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 13(2): 71-79.
6. Gross, E.J. and G.E. Moglen, (2007). "Estimating the Hydrological Influence of Maryland State Dams using GIS and the HEC-1 Model." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 12(6): 690-693.
7. Lewicki, M, J.E. Pizzuto, G.E. Moglen, N.E. Allmendinger, (2007) "A Watershed Scale Numerical Model of the Impact of Land Use Change on Bed Material Transport in Suburban Maryland" Water Resources Research 43, W07424, doi:10.1029/2006WR004959.
8. Allmendinger, N.E., J.E. Pizzuto, G.E. Moglen, and M. Lewicki, (2007). "A Sediment Budget for an Urbanizing Watershed." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 43(6): 1483-1498
9. Moglen, G.E. and S. Kim, (2007). "Limiting imperviousness: Are threshold-based policies a good idea?" Journal of the American Planning Association, 73(2): 161-171.
10. Moglen, G.E. and D.E. Shivers, (2006). "Methods for Adjusting U.S. Geological Survey Rural Regression Peak Discharges in an Urban Setting" U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5270, 55p.
11. Hejazi, M.I., and G.E. Moglen, (2006). "Regression-Based Approach to Low flow Prediction in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the U.S. under Joint Climate and Land Use Change." Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.6374
12. Gabriel, S.A., J. Faria, and G.E. Moglen, (2006). "A Multiobjective Optimization Approach to Smart Growth in Land Development." Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 40: 212-248.
13. Moglen, G.E., S.A. Gabriel, J.A. Faria, (2003). "A Framework for Quantitative Smart Growth in Land Development." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 39(4): 947-959.
14. Beighley, R.E. and G.E. Moglen, (2003). "Adjusting Measured Peak Discharges from an Urbanizing Watershed to Reflect a Stationary Land Use Signal." Water Resources Research, 39(4), doi:10.1029/2002WR001846.
15. Nilsson, C., J.E. Pizzuto, G.E. Moglen, M.A. Palmer, E.H. Stanley, N.E. Bockstael, and L.C. Thompson, (2003). "Ecological Forecasting and Urbanizing Streams: Challenges for Economists, Hydrologists, Geomorphologists, and Ecologists." Ecosystems, 2003(6): 659-674, doi:10.1007/s10021-002-0217-2.
16. Benda, L.E., N.L. Poff, C. Tague, M.A. Palmer, J.E. Pizzuto, S. Cooper, E.H. Stanley, G.E. Moglen, (2002). "How to Avoid Train Wrecks when Using Science in Environmental Problem Solving." BioScience, 52(12): 1127-1136.
17. Moglen, G.E. and R.E. Beighley, (2002). "Spatially Explicit Hydrologic Modeling of Land Use Change." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38(1): 241-253.
18. Beighley, R.E. and G.E. Moglen, (2002). "Trend Assessment in Rainfall-Runoff Behavior in Urbanizing Watersheds." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 7(1): 27-34.
19. Moglen, G.E. and G.L. Hartman, (2001). "Resolution Effects on Hydrologic Modeling Parameters and Peak Discharge." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 6(6): 490-497.
20. Moglen, G.E., 2000. "Effects of Orientation of Spatially Distributed Curve Numbers in Runoff Calculations." Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 36(6): 1391-1400.
21. Moglen, G.E., 2000. "Urbanization, Stream Buffers, and Stewardship in Maryland." Watershed Protection Techniques, 3(2): 676-680.
22. Moglen, G.E. and R.E. Beighley, 2000. "Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to determine the extent of gaged streams in a region." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 5(2): 190-196.
23. Veneziano, D., G.E. Moglen, P. Furcolo, and V. Iacobellis, 2000. "Stochastic Model of the Width Function." Water Resources Research, 36(4): 1143-1157.
24. Moglen, G.E. and M.J. Casey, 1998. "A Perspective on the Use of GIS in Hydrologic and Environmental Analysis in Maryland." Infrastructure, 3(4): 15-25.
25. Moglen, G.E., E.A.B. Eltahir, and R.L. Bras, 1998. "On the Sensitivity of Drainage Density to Climate Change." Water Resources Research, 34(4): 855-862.
26. Finnerty, B., M. Smith, D.J. Seo, V. Koren, and G.E. Moglen, 1997. "Space-Time Scale Sensitivity of the Sacramento Model to Radar-Gage Precipitation Inputs." Journal of Hydrology, 203(1-4): 21-38.
27. McCuen, R.H., L.C. Conley, and G.E. Moglen, 1996. "A Multicriterion Philosophy for Storm-Water Infrastructure." Infrastructure, 1(2): 42-49.
28. Moglen, G.E. and R.L. Bras, 1995. "Effect of Spatial Heterogeneities on Geomorphic Expression in a Model of Basin Evolution." Water Resources Research, 31(10): 2613-2623.
29. Veneziano, D., G.E. Moglen, and R.L. Bras, 1995. "Multifractal Analysis: Pitfalls of Standard Procedures and Alternatives." Physical Review E, 52(2): 1387-1398.
30. Moglen, G.E. and R.L. Bras, 1995. "The Importance of Spatially Heterogeneous Erosivity and the Cumulative Area Distribution." Geomorphology, 12(3): 173-185.
31. Ijjasz-Vasquez, E.J., R.L. Bras and G.E. Moglen, 1992. "Sensitivity of a Basin Evolution Model to the Nature of Runoff Production and Initial Conditions." Water Resources Research, 28(10): 2733-2742.
32. Julien, P.Y. and G.E. Moglen, 1990. "Similarity and Length Scale for Spatially Varied Overland Flow." Water Resources Research, 26(8): 1819-1832.
33. Moglen, G.E. and R.H. McCuen, 1990. "Economic Framework for Flood and Sediment Control with Detention Basins." Water Resources Bulletin, 26(1): 145-156.
34. Moglen, G.E. and R.H. McCuen, 1988. "Effects of Detention Basins on In-Stream Sediment Movement." Journal of Hydrology, 104: 129-139.
35. McCuen, R.H. and G.E. Moglen, 1988. "Multicriterion Stormwater Management Methods." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, 114(4):414-431.