Katrina Bennett

Katrina Eleanor Bennett is a hydrologist interested in changes to water resources that impact human and ecological systems. Katrina completed her PhD from the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2014. She has worked on the influences of earth system change and climate variability on the hydrology of northern and forested watersheds in Alaska and Canada, and US southwestern systems of the Colorado River and Rio Grande basins. Her research interests are primarily hydrological modeling of snow and streamflow, field-based experimentation and observations, AI/machine learning for process representation, changes in the land surface (permafrost, forests, vegetation, fire) and associated disturbances to the hydrologic regime, remote sensing of solid and liquid water, and the quantification of uncertainty and sensitivity in hydrologic estimates. Katrina is currently a Research Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is the LANL Institutional Lead for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project.