Joseph Delesantro

I’m a watershed hydrologist with experience studying land-use practices and patterns to inform environmental management. The major themes of my research are 1) Improving the hydrologic characterization and understanding of land-use practices and patterns, 2) Linking the composition and structure of wetlands and their watersheds to ecological function, 3) Identifying pollutant sources, transport, and transformation mechanisms. My research approach uses high resolution mapping, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis to characterize the study landscape, supplements existing data as necessary with field observations and in-situ sensing, and investigates natural and human imposed variation in impacts to ask societally relevant questions about watershed processes and water quality across scales.