Carlos de Mello appointed as ISWCR board member

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Carlos de Mello as an editorial board member for ISWCR. Please join us in welcoming Carlos to the team!

Dr. Mello is a full Professor of Hydrology at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil. His scientific activity and interests are soil erosion processes, soil erosion models, USLE modeling, precipitation modeling, watershed management, water resource assessment and management, and hydrological processes. 

He currently works as the leader of the Water and Soil Engineering research group (CNPq) at UFLA since 2014. He has collaborated with the INCT Climate Change Phase 2, conducting research on the impacts of climate change on water resources and potential for electricity generation (CPTEC/INPE). He has research partnerships with the Universities of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, the Technical University of Cologne (Germany), Sichuan University (China), and the USDA-ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center, in the areas of hydrology, climate change, erosion and hydropedology. To date, he has led more than 25 projects as principal investigator (PI) with the funding agencies CNPq, CAPES, FAPEMIG and CEMIG/ANEEL. Ongoing projects include: i) hydropedology, monitoring and modeling of tropical Critical Zones and in mountainous regions, including modeling of precipitation interception, groundwater recharge and space-time modeling of soil moisture; ii) development of hydrological models, with emphasis on the Lavras Simulation of Hydrology (LASH) model; iii) applications of the SWAT and DHSVM models in prognostic studies of the hydrological behavior of headwater river basins; iv) impacts of climate change on the hydroelectric power generation potential in southeastern Brazil. He teaches courses in hydrology, and has advised numerous graduate students. Dr. Mello has authored or co-authored over 200 research articles in peer-reviewed journals.