Dr. Genevieve Ali

Biography

Genevieve Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University, specializing in process hydrology and complex systems science. Her research is focused on how water and its carriers move across various landscape compartments including soil, plants, wetlands, and rivers. She employs a combination of fieldwork, big-data mining, numerical mapping, and numerical modeling approaches to study hydrological processes at both plot scale and large transboundary watershed scale. Ali utilizes concepts and tools from various hydrology sub-disciplines, such as ecohydrology, hydrobiogeochemistry, and hydropedology, often integrating methodologies from ecology and computer science to address hydrological questions. Her work emphasizes natural hydrological processes and their significant alteration by human activities and infrastructure. A major thrust of her research involves characterizing ecohydrological systems as highly connected complex systems, aiming to enhance our understanding of water dynamics in the context of land use change and climate change.

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