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Giuseppe Mascaro

Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Mascaro integrates hydrology, climate and atmospheric science techniques to support sustainable infrastructure design by combining advanced statistical techniques and numerical models of Earth’s climate and hydrologic cycle.

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irrigation in a field

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An irrigation canal running near agricultural fields in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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view of a valley

A first-of-its-kind hydrologic model increases understanding of soil moisture conditions that affect monsoons, agriculture, flooding and land-use in the desert.

Portrait of Giuseppe Mascaro. Caption: ASU Now - Prof. Giuseppe Mascaro - 6/7/2018 - Tempe campus Professor Giuseppe Mascaro poses for a portrait in the outdoor desert habitat area North of his office in ISTB4 Thursday morning on Tempe campus June 7th, 2018. Mascaro's research focuses on statistical analysis of rain gauge data collected by Maricopa County Flood Control for the past thirty years. Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now

Assistant Professor Giuseppe Mascaro characterized daily rainfall extremes in Metro Phoenix to support hydrologic, engineering and climate studies.