Mauricio E. Arias PhD, PE

Roles:
Author, Reviewer, Section Editor

Editorial groups:
JEED Committee

Affiliation:
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida

Biography

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Dr. Mauricio Arias is an Associate Professor of water resources and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida (Tampa), where he is the Principal Investigator of the Watershed Sustainability Lab and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources. Areas of current research include environmental flow design, coastal restoration, and watershed-scale restoration, with regional emphasis in the tropics and subtropics. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Engineering in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Prior to USF, he completed a postdoc fellowship in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University (2014-2016). During 2024-25, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico and served as Vice President of AEES. 

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