Francisco Flores
Staff Scientist
Francisco is a water resources engineer . His expertise includes analysis and modeling of groundwater and stream flow pollutants transport using hydrological models and geographic information systems. He has worked extensively on environmental water resources issues in the Catskill Mountains of New York State and in the Lerma-Chapala River basin in Mexico. Francisco’s research interests relate to exploring potential impacts of climate change on California agriculture specifically the impact of altered weather variables and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations on agricultural crops. Francisco has worked for the Mexico Country Program of the International Water Management Institute where he served as a research assistant on various projects of applied water resources engineering.
He received his Ph. D. in Soil and Water Engineering from Cornell University in 2009