Peter “James” Dennedy-Frank

P. James Dennedy-Frank leads the Water Resources Ecohydrology Lab (WRElab). James is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Marine & Environmental Sciences and Civil & Environmental Engineering. James completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. James also has a B.S. and M.S. in planetary science and industry experience at Flexible Liner Underground Technologies (FLUTe), a company that makes groundwater sampling systems.

James has strong interests in how we can best manage watersheds for the good of both people and nature. To accomplish this, James seeks to understand how watersheds function as systems and particularly how ecohydrological systems interact to change the flow of water through watersheds and to plants. He believes that computational simulation serves as a great platform for collaborative work to understand watershed function, and so uses watershed simulators across a variety of complexity levels in his work to interact with colleagues and stakeholders.