Field of Focus
  • Pollution
  • Geographic Information Science (GIS)
  • Modeling
Area of Expertise
Watershed Modeling; Soil Erosion; Sediment Transport; Water Quality Monitoring; Hydrological Transport Processes
Education
  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, U.S.A., 2007
  • M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 2004
  • B.S. in Agricultural Engineering Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1997

Dr. Diaz’s research interests involve computational modeling of hydrological transport for numerical forecasting of water quality, evaluation of nutrient concentrations in freshwater systems, and trends in water quality related to changes in land use.