Alfonso Mejia

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Summary

Research interests include hydrologic modeling and forecasting, hydrometeorology, human-natural systems, fluvial and river basin geomorphology and water resources sustainability.

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Recent Publications

Past, Present, and Future Liquefaction Hazards at Greenmeadows School, Napier, New Zealand

Ghimire, A., Yost, K. M., Stolte, A., Mejia, A. & Orense, R., 2025, In: Geotechnical Special Publication. 2025-March, GSP 366, p. 134-144 11 p.

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Risk of simultaneous food shocks to cities increases with supply chain vulnerability to droughts

Gomez, M. & Mejia, A., Jun 1 2025, In: Environmental Research: Food Systems. 2, 2, 025004.

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Scaling Nature-Based Solutions for Fluvial Floods: A Worldwide Systematic Review

Howarth, M., Smithwick, E. A. H., McPhillips, L. & Mejia, A., Mar 1 2025, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 12, 2, e70011.

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Freshwater faces a warmer and saltier future from headwaters to coasts: climate risks, saltwater intrusion, and biogeochemical chain reactions

Kaushal, S. S., Shelton, S. A., Mayer, P. M., Kellmayer, B., Utz, R. M., Reimer, J. E., Baljunas, J., Bhide, S. V., Mon, A., Rodriguez-Cardona, B. M., Grant, S. B., Newcomer-Johnson, T. A., Malin, J. T., Shatkay, R. R., Collison, D. C., Papageorgiou, K., Escobar, J., Rippy, M. A., Likens, G. E. & Najjar, R. G. & 4 others, Mejia, A. I., Lassiter, A., Li, M. & Chant, R. J., Apr 2025, In: Biogeochemistry. 168, 2, 31.

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Groundwater and trade: towards an interdisciplinary consensus and roadmap for future research

Konar, M., Fisher-Vanden, K., Grogran, D., Haqiqi, I., Mejia, A. & Puma, M. J., Jul 2025, In: Environmental Research Letters. 20, 7, 071002.

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Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society

Kreibich, H., Sivapalan, M., AghaKouchak, A., Addor, N., Aksoy, H., Arheimer, B., Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., Vail-Castro, C., Cudennec, C., Madruga de Brito, M., Di Baldassarre, G., Finger, D. C., Fowler, K., Knoben, W., Krueger, T., Liu, J., Macdonald, E., McMillan, H., Mendiondo, E. M. & Montanari, A. & 83 others, Muller, M. F., Pande, S., Tian, F., Viglione, A., Wei, Y., Castellarin, A., Loucks, D. P., Oki, T., Polo, M. J., Savenije, H., Van Loon, A. F., Agarwal, A., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Andreu, A., Barendrecht, M. H., Brunner, M., Cavalcante, L., Cavus, Y., Ceola, S., Chaffe, P., Chen, X., Coxon, G., Dandan, Z., Davary, K., Dembélé, M., Dewals, B., Frolova, T., Gain, A. K., Gelfan, A., Ghoreishi, M., Grabs, T., Guan, X., Hannah, D. M., Helmschrot, J., Höllermann, B., Hounkpè, J., Koebele, E., Konar, M., Kratzert, F., Lindersson, S., Llasat, M. C., Matanó, A., Mazzoleni, M., Mejia, A., Mendoza, P., Merz, B., Mukherjee, J., Nasiri Saleh, F., Nlend, B., Nonki, R. M., Orieschnig, C., Papagiannaki, K., Penny, G., Petrucci, O., Pimentel, R., Pool, S., Ridolfi, E., Rusca, M., Sairam, N., Sankaran Namboothiri, A., Sarmento Buarque, A. C., Savelli, E., Schoppa, L., Schröter, K., Scolobig, A., Shafiei, M., Sikorska-Senoner, A. E., Smigaj, M., Teutschbein, C., Thaler, T., Todorovic, A., Tootoonchi, F., Tootoonchi, R., Toth, E., van Nooijen, R., Vanelli, F. M., Vásquez, N., Walker, D. W., Wens, M., Yu, D. J., Zarei, H., Zhou, C. & Blöschl, G., 2025, In: Hydrological Sciences Journal. 70, 7, p. 1210-1236 27 p.

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The Emerging Global Threat of Salt Contamination of Water Supplies in Tidal Rivers

Li, M., Najjar, R. G., Kaushal, S., Mejia, A., Chant, R. J., Ralston, D. K., Burchard, H., Hadjimichael, A., Lassiter, A. & Wang, X., Aug 12 2025, In: Environmental Science and Technology Letters. 12, 8, p. 881-892 12 p.

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Environmental Indicators for Assessment of Circular Economy (CE) Implementation in the Water and Wastewater Sector

Smol, M., Mejia, A., Gastaldi, M. & D'Adamo, I., Feb 2025, In: Business Strategy and the Environment. 34, 2, p. 1993-2011 19 p.

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Complex networks reveal teleconnections across cascading floods in the Yangtze River Basin

Sun, F., Mejia, A., Sharma, S., Zeng, P., Hu, Y., Yang, K. & Che, Y., Oct 2025, In: Natural Hazards. 121, 17, p. 20319-20341 23 p.

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Estimating effects of monsoon flooding on household water access

Broyles, L. M. T., Pakhtigian, E. L. & Mejia, A., Sep 1 2024, In: Environmental Research Letters. 19, 9, 094038.

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The Selection of Global Climate Models for Regional Impact Studies Should Consider Information from Historical Simulations and Future Projections

Rohith, A. N., Mejia, A. & Cibin, R., Sep 2024, In: Earth Systems and Environment. 8, 3, p. 693-703 11 p.

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Seasonal variation in household water insecurity in rural Bangladesh: A longitudinal analysis

Broyles, L. M. T., Pakhtigian, E. L., Aziz, S., Akanda, A. S. & Mejia, A., Jul 31 2023, In: PLOS Water. 2, 7 July, e0000157.

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Cities can benefit from complex supply chains

Doğan, N. B., Mejia, A. & Gomez, M., Dec 2023, In: npj Urban Sustainability. 3, 1, 20.

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Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts

Kreibich, H., Schröter, K., Di Baldassarre, G., Van Loon, A. F., Mazzoleni, M., Abeshu, G. W., Agafonova, S., Aghakouchak, A., Aksoy, H., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Aznar, B., Balkhi, L., Barendrecht, M. H., Biancamaria, S., Bos-Burgering, L., Bradley, C., Budiyono, Y., Buytaert, W., Capewell, L. & Carlson, H. & 71 others, Cavus, Y., Couasnon, A., Coxon, G., Daliakopoulos, I., De Ruiter, M. C., Delus, C., Erfurt, M., Esposito, G., François, D., Frappart, F., Freer, J., Frolova, N., Gain, A. K., Grillakis, M., Grima, J. O., Guzmán, D. A., Huning, L. S., Ionita, M., Kharlamov, M., Khoi, D. N., Kieboom, N., Kireeva, M., Koutroulis, A., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Li, H. Y., Llasat, M. C., Macdonald, D., Mård, J., Mathew-Richards, H., Mckenzie, A., Mejia, A., Mendiondo, E. M., Mens, M., Mobini, S., Mohor, G. S., Nagavciuc, V., Ngo-Duc, T., Nguyen, H. T. T., Nhi, P. T. T., Petrucci, O., Quan, N. H., Quintana-Seguí, P., Razavi, S., Ridolfi, E., Riegel, J., Sadik, M. S., Sairam, N., Savelli, E., Sazonov, A., Sharma, S., Sörensen, J., Souza, F. A. A., Stahl, K., Steinhausen, M., Stoelzle, M., Szalińska, W., Tang, Q., Tian, F., Tokarczyk, T., Tovar, C., Tran, T. V. T., Van Huijgevoort, M. H. J., Van Vliet, M. T. H., Vorogushyn, S., Wagener, T., Wang, Y., Wendt, D. E., Wickham, E., Yang, L., Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. & Ward, P. J., May 16 2023, In: Earth System Science Data. 15, 5, p. 2009-2023 15 p.

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Projecting multi-attribute flood regime changes for the Yangtze River basin

Zhang, C., Sun, F., Sharma, S., Zeng, P., Mejia, A., Lyu, Y., Gao, J., Zhou, R. & Che, Y., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Hydrology. 617, 128846.

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