Dr. Glenn E. Moglen 

Associate Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Research Scientist - National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education

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

Phone: 301-405-1964
Fax: 301-405-2585

E-mail: moglen@umd.edu

Current streamflow conditions for Maryland from the USGS

Academic Experience:

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

Courses Taught:

• ENCE 100 - Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
• ENCE 301 - Geo-metrics and GIS in Civil Engineering
• ENCE 489 - Hydrologic Measurements (Winter Term 2006)
• ENCE 688K - Open Channel Flow
• ENCE 634 - River Engineering (formerly ENCE 688R)
• ENCE 635 - Geographic Information Systems for Watershed Analysis


• Education Related Activities:
• I am a Fellow of the Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
• I was a Center for Teaching Excellence /Lilly Fellow for the 1997-1998 academic year.

Research Interests:

• I am a member of the State of Maryland's Small Watersheds Study Workgroup
• Modeling Watershed Evolution (animation) 
• Using GIS to assess hydrologic consequences of land use change
• Geomorphology
• Channel Stability/Restoration
• Land Use Change and Urban Sprawl
• I am a member of the Earth Science Information Partnership here on campus.

Current 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
• Presentation of Preliminary Results

Completed Research Projects:

• Maryland State Highway Administration, GISHydro2000: Updating and Enhancing the Functionality of GISHYDRO Including Digital Terrain and Digital Line Data
• Transportation Research News Article about GISHydro2000
• Presentation on GISHydro2000 functionality
• Maryland State Highway Administration, Implementing GISHydro Installation, Customized Enhancements and Support
• Maryland State Highway Administration and Maryland Department of the Environment, Interfacing GISHydro2000 with HEC-1
• U.S. Geological Survey (Water Resources Research Center), Development of a Systematic Approach for Channel Restoration Activities.
• Maryland State Highway Administration, Development of Data Handling Tools for the Hydrologic Analysis of Small Watersheds.
• Maryland State Highway Administration, Refinements and Additions to the Maryland Hydrologic Geographic Information System to Accommodate NPDES Watershed Assessment
• Maryland State Highway Administration, Investigation of Extent of Stream Gage Coverage of Maryland.
• Department of Public Works, Howard County, MD, Investigation of Plum Tree Branch, Little Patuxent River: Watershed Erosion and Siltation Agreement

Scientific and Professional Societies:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Impervious Surfaces Task Committee Chairman
• Conference Chairperson: Watershed Management 2005: Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges
• American Geophysical Union
• American Water Resources Association

Slide Presentations:

• ESRI MUG '97 Slide Presentation: "Using ArcView Spatial Analyst for Instruction and Research in Hydrologic Engineering"
• Presentation at University of Texas, Austin - General Research Overview
• Spring 1998 AGU Presentation: "Quantifying the Effect of Land Use Change on Channel Hydraulic Geometry"
• Spring 2001 AGU Presentation: "Are Smart Growth Objectives Complimentary or Conflicting?" (must be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer - Not Netscape)

Journal Publications:

1. Hejazi, M.I., and G.E. Moglen, (in press). "The Effects of Climate and Land Use Change on Flow Duration in the Maryland Piedmont Region." Hydrological Processes.
2. Shivers, D.E., and G.E. Moglen, (in press). "Spurious Correlation in the USEPA Rating Curve Method for Estimating Pollutant Loads." Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE.
3. Gross, E.J. and G.E. Moglen, (in press). "Estimating the Hydrological Influence of Maryland State Dams using GIS and the HEC-1 Model." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE.
4. Pavlovic, S.A. and G.E. Moglen, (2008). "Discretization Issues in Travel Time Calculation." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 13(2): 71-79.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Moglen, G.E., 2000. "Urbanization, Stream Buffers, and Stewardship in Maryland." Watershed Protection Techniques, 3(2): 676-680.
20. 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.
21. Veneziano, D., G.E. Moglen, P. Furcolo, and V. Iacobellis, 2000. "Stochastic Model of the Width Function." Water Resources Research, 36(4): 1143-1157.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. McCuen, R.H., L.C. Conley, and G.E. Moglen, 1996. "A Multicriterion Philosophy for Storm-Water Infrastructure." Infrastructure, 1(2): 42-49.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Moglen, G.E. and R.L. Bras, 1995. "The Importance of Spatially Heterogeneous Erosivity and the Cumulative Area Distribution." Geomorphology, 12(3): 173-185.
29. 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.
30. Julien, P.Y. and G.E. Moglen, 1990. "Similarity and Length Scale for Spatially Varied Overland Flow." Water Resources Research, 26(8): 1819-1832.
31. 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.
32. Moglen, G.E. and R.H. McCuen, 1988. "Effects of Detention Basins on In-Stream Sediment Movement." Journal of Hydrology, 104: 129-139.
33. 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.