Donna Rizzo

Donna emerged from the University of Vermont Civil & Environmental Engineering Program in 1994, as the program's first Ph. D. student. Since then she has approached environmental engineering from a multidisciplinary perspective, collaborated with a number of geology projects and served on multiple thesis committees, as Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Donna is a modeler and stats whiz who loves working with noisy, incomplete data sets like the kind we seem to generate. She's been an indispensable collaborator and worked with many Master's students associated with the lab as they work to decipher patterns in their data.

Doctoral Degree

University of Vermont, Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, 1994

Email Address

drizzo@cems.uvm.edu

Current Position and Contact Information (7/2008)

Associate Professor
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
109 Votey Building
33 Colchester Avenue
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
1-800-ENG-MATH (1-800-364-6284)

Junior-Authored, Refereed Publications Based on UVM Research

Gran, S., Matmon, A.S., Bierman, P.R., Enzel, Y., Caffee, M., and Rizzo, D., 2001, Displacement history of a limestone normal fault scarp northern Israel from cosmogenic 36Cl: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 4247-4265. (download pdf)

Other Meeting Abstracts Based on UVM Research

Hackett, W.R., Bierman, P. R., Rizzo, D.M. and Besaw, L.E., 2009, Increasing precipitation and runoff interact with land use change over the last 70 years in the Winooski River basin, northern Vermont, WRCC annual meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts (download pdf)

Besaw, L.E., Rizzo, D.M., Bierman, P., and Hackett, W.R., 2008, Daily streamflow forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks: Application in the Winooski River basin, Vermont: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. (download pdf)

Hackett, W.R., Bierman, P.R., Rizzo, D.M., and Besaw, L.E., 2008, Increasing precipitation and runoff over the last 70 years, the Winooski River Basin, Vermont: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. 301-1. (download pdf)

Pearce, A., Bierman, P.R., Druschel, G.K., Massey, C.A., Rizzo, D.M., Watzin, M.C., and Wemple, B.C., 2007, Developing a watershed field course to inspire interdisciplinary learning: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 621. (download pdf)

Pearce, A.R., Bierman, P.R., Druschel, G.K., Massey, C.A., Rizzo, D.M., Watzin, M.C., and Wemple, B.C., 2007, Teaching a new generation of students: Developing an interdisciplinary watershed field course: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 88. (download pdf)