Delphis F. Levia
Delphis F. Levia
Professor
Office Location
207 Pearson Hall
125 Academy Street
Newark, DE 19716
Appointments
- Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
Education
- Ph.D., Geography, Clark University, 2000
- M.S. Geography, University of Massachusetts, 1996
- B.A. Geography, Clark University, 1994
Biosketch
Dr. Delphis F. Levia is a Professor of Ecohydrology at the University of Delaware with academic appointments in the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (primary), Department of Plant & Soil Sciences (joint), and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (joint). He is Past Chair of the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences and Founding and Past Director of the GIScience and Environmental Data Analytics Program. Prof. Levia's research involves biosphere-atmosphere interactions with an emphasis on precipitation partitioning by trees from both hydrological and biogeochemical perspectives, although a second and new research direction involves water and disease. He has an international research program and conducted research in Japan, Germany, Panama, and Spain, among other countries. He currently serves as a Series Editor for Springer's Ecological Studies Series and an Associate Editor for Hydrological Processes (Wiley). Prof. Levia is a Humboldt Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellow, and he recently finished a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Research Interests
Ecohydrology; stemflow; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; biogeochemistry; field methods and instrumentation; microscopy; bioimaging
Publications
Select publications:
Levia, D.F., Bergquist, R., Meydani, A., Hu, Y. and Hannah, D.M. 2024. Hydrological extremes heighten vulnerability to schistosomiasis. Earth’s Future 12(6): e2024EF004659, 6 p. [DOI: 10.1029/2024EF004659]
Levia, D.F. (Editor), Carlyle-Moses, D.E. (Co-Editor), Iida, S. (Co-Editor), Michalzik, B. (Co-Editor), Nanko, K. (Co-Editor), and Tischer, A. (Co-Editor). 2020. Forest-Water Interactions. Ecological Studies Series, No. 240, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 628 p. [ISBN: 978-3-030-26085-9 (Print); 978-3-030-26086-6 (eBook); DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26086-6]
Levia, D.F.*, Creed, I.F.*, Hannah, D.M., Nanko, K., Boyer, E.W., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., van de Giesen, N., Grasso, D., Guswa, A.J., Hudson, J.E., Hudson, S.A., Iida, S., Jackson, R.B., Katul, G.G., Kumagai, T., Llorens, P., Lopes Ribeiro, F., Pataki, D.E., Peters, C.A., Sanchez Carretero, D., Selker, J.S., Tetzlaff, D., Zalewski, M. and Bruen, M. 2020. Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle. Nature Geoscience 13(10): 656-658. [* equal contributors; we make no distinction between first and second authors] [DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0641-y]
Guswa, A.J., Tetzlaff, D., Selker, J.S., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., Boyer, E.W., Bruen, M., Cayuela, C., Creed, I.F., van de Giesen, N., Grasso, D., Hannah, D.M., Hudson, J.E., Hudson, S.A., Iida, S., Jackson, R.B., Katul, G.G., Kumagai, T., Llorens, P., Lopes Ribeiro, F., Michalzik, B., Nanko, K., Oster, C., Pataki, D.E., Peters, C.A., Rinaldo, A., Sanchez Carretero, D., Trifunovic, B., Zalewski, M., Haagsma, M. and Levia, D.F. 2020. Advancing ecohydrology in the 21st century: a convergence of opportunities. Ecohydrology 13(4): e2208, 14 p. [DOI: 10.1002/eco.2208]
Mrad, A., Katul, G.G., Levia, D.F., Guswa, A.J., Boyer, E.W., Bruen, M., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., Coyte, R., Creed, I.F., van de Giesen, N., Grasso, D., Hannah, D.M., Hudson, J.E., Humphrey, V., Iida, S., Jackson, R.B., Kumagai, T., Llorens, P., Michalzik, B., Nanko, K., Peters, C.A., Selker, J.S., Tetzlaff, D., Zalewski, M. and Scanlon, B. 2020. Peak grain forecasts for the U.S. High Plains amid withering waters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(42): 26145-26150. [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008383117]
Tucker, A.M., Levia, D.F., Katul, G.G., Nanko, K. and Rossi, L.F. 2020. A network model for stemflow solute transport. Applied Mathematical Modelling 88: 266-282. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2020.06.047]
Levia, D.F.*, Nanko, K.*, Amasaki, H., Giambelluca, T.W., Hotta, N., Iida, S., Mudd, R.G., Nullet, M.A., Sakai, N., Shinohara, Y., Sun, X., Suzuki, M., Tanaka, N., Tantasirin, C. and Yamada, K. 2019. Throughfall partitioning by trees. Hydrological Processes 33(12): 1698-1708. [* equal contributors; we make no distinction between first and second authors] [DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13432]
Cayuela, C., Levia, D.F., Latron, J. and Llorens, P. 2019. Particulate matter fluxes in a Mediterranean mountain forest: interspecific differences between throughfall and stemflow in oak and pine stands. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres 124(9): 5106-5116. [DOI: 10.1029/2019JD030276]
Carlyle-Moses, D.E., Iida, S., Germer, S., Llorens, P., Michalzik, B., Nanko, K., Tischer, A. and Levia, D.F. 2018. Expressing stemflow commensurate with its ecohydrological importance. Advances in Water Resources 121: 472-479. [DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.08.015]
Dowtin, A.L. and Levia, D.F. 2018. The power of persistence. Science 360(6393): 1142. [DOI: 10.1126/science.360.6393.1142]
Levia, D.F. and Germer, S. 2015. A review of stemflow generation dynamics and stemflow-environment interactions in forests and shrublands. Reviews of Geophysics 53(3): 673-714. [DOI: 10.1002/2015RG000479]
More Information
- Curriculum Vitae (updated version pending)
- UD Ecohydrology Group
- Series Editor, Ecological Studies: Analysis and Synthesis (Springer Nature)
- Associate Editor, Hydrological Processes (Wiley)