Amvrossios (Ross) Bagtzoglou
Name: Amvrossios (Ross) Bagtzoglou 
Title/Department: Professor and Head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone number: (860) 486-4017
Email: amvrossios.bagtzoglou@uconn.edu
Website: http://cee.engr.uconn.edu/people/faculty-members/bagtzoglou-amvrossios-c
Research focus: Time Inversion and Reconstruction of Past Hydrologic Conditions Hydrologic Modeling Chaotic Advection and Enhanced Mixing Estuarine and River Water Quality Management Fractured Rock Hydrology Geostatistical Simulation and Probabilistic Analyses
What excites you most about your PIRE research? My involvement is to develop a groundwater model that will allow us to provide local-scale predictions of water levels and small-scale basins by simulating local processes. The groundwater model MODFLOW will be applied to selected irrigated and non-irrigated watersheds in the region and driven by the seasonal forecasts and constrained at its boundaries through coupling with CREST. Historical in situ hydro-meteorological (precipitation, meteorological, streamflow, groundwater levels) and remote sensing data will be used to support model calibration and validation. This modeling framework has been used in past studies to facilitate well placement or optimal withdrawal pumping rates and schedules for irrigated areas under different management scenarios and for recharge rate estimation in arid regions.
What’s the most valuable aspect of your research for the people and communities? We aspire to provide guidance to the local communities as to the optimal location for placement of wells so that their water supply needs are met and the hydrologic system is not stressed beyond sustainable management levels.