Delphis F. Levia

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, Construction, and 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 was inducted as a Fellow into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the Class of 2024 and is affiliated with the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences section. Besides being an AAAS Fellow, Prof. Levia is Humboldt Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellow, and 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; geohealth

Publications

Select publications:

Levia, D.F., Katul, G.G., Meydani, A., Nanko, K., Yuan, C., Zhang, Y., Llorens, P. and Bruen, M. 2025. Towards smarter green infrastructure: fusing bark ecology and stemflow hydrodynamics on tree stems. Ecological Indicators 178: 113827, 11 p. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113827]

Katul, G.G., Keshavarz, B., Meydani, A. and Levia, D.F. (invited) 2025. Stemflow hydrodynamics. Reviews of Geophysics 63(3): e2024RG000857, 30 p. [DOI: 10.1029/2024RG000857]

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]

See Google Scholar for a list of my published works.
 

More Information

• Curriculum Vitae
• UD Ecohydrology Group
  
• Series Editor, Ecological Studies: Analysis and Synthesis (Springer Nature)
• Associate Editor, Hydrological Processes (Wiley)